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Sause Bros., Inc., a pioneering Oregon ocean towing company founded in 1938, is a privately held third-generation family company serving routes along the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii and other islands of the South Pacific, as well as Alaska. It maintains a sixty-vessel fleet of tugboats and barges, employing approximately 400 people at its facilities in Coos Bay, Portland, and Rainier, Oregon; in Long Beach, California; and in Honolulu and Kalaeloa, Hawaii. Though the company started with a single wooden tugboat in 1938, as of 2015 Sause Bros. has a modern fleet, including double-hull barges. The company's Southern Oregon Marine division repairs and maintains the fleet, as well as designing and building new vessels. Sause Bros.' early history included two fatal accidents and an oil spill in 1988. == History == Sause Bros. was established in 1938 by Henry Sause, Sr., and his son Curtis, and by 2015 had become a third-generation family company. According to ''Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.'', "Sause is a privately owned family business with a longstanding marine history. It has the most modern fleet of double-hull liquid cargo barges on the U.S. West Coast." The business began with a single wooden tugboat moving timber rafts along the northwest Pacific coast of the USA, from Tillamook Bay north to ports on the Columbia River and Grays Harbor, Washington. By the early 1940s Sause Bros. had added two more tugboats, as well as barges to haul finished lumber products.〔 The business continued to grow. In 1947 the company incorporated as ''Sause Bros. Ocean Towing'', and by 1951 the company had added southern routes to transport cargo to Long Beach, California. Fifteen years later, Sause Bros. expanded its barge service to include Hawaii, and extended its delivery services throughout the islands of the South Pacific. By 1976 the company had also ventured into chemical transportation and coastal petroleum transportation.〔 Sause Bros. opened a shipyard, Southern Oregon Marine (SOMAR), in 1979, east of Coos Bay, Oregon. The SOMAR division of Sause Bros. constructs, modifies, repairs, and maintains the company's fleet of tugs and barges, including line-haul and ship-assist tugs, lumber barges, covered house barges, and double hull liquid cargo barges. During the mid-'70s, Sause Bros. had two single-screw 104 ft (32 m) tugs, the ''Joseph Sause'' and the ''Henry Sause'', built in Louisiana.〔 Over the years, SOMAR has lengthened these two tugs, increased the beam, and added new engines and twin screws to gain more working deck space fore and aft. These changes also made possible a larger pilot house, located near the center of the boat.〔 In 1983 the company incorporated as ''Sause Bros., Inc.,'' extending cargo delivery throughout the Hawaiian Islands and the South Pacific. The firm has since consolidated its business operations under ''Sause Bros., Inc.''〔 In the mid-1990s the company began cargo handling operations in Long Beach, California, with inner harbor transportation services to oil drilling islands of the harbor. Sause Bros. changed its base of operations for Hawaii-bound barges in 2002, from Portland to the Port of Longview in Washington, citing proximity to Weyerhauser's dock for loading lumber products, as well as "an excellent working relationship with the ILWU Local 21, with better shipping arrangements."〔 By 2009, Sause Bros. moved across the Columbia to Teevin Terminal in Rainier, Oregon, and consolidated its cargo operations there because of multimodal rail and trucking connections. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sause Bros., Inc.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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