Owner and operator of chemical transportation vessels. Built in 1968, the Chemical Pioneer vessel, with a dead weight tonnage of 35,000, can carry forty eight separate grades of specialty chemicals within the bowels of its segregated cargo holds, and offers a lower-cost alternative for chemical companies to ship chemicals from the Gulf States to the East Coast. Built in 1976, the vessel The Stolt Spirit, with a dead weight tonnage of 32,000, at the time of the acquisition was placed in dry dock due to destruction caused by massive engine fire.