People of the Saltchuk: Paintings by Byron Birdsall - Hardcover

Saltchuk is a family of transportation and distribution companies headquartered in Seattle, WA, with 2016 revenues of $2.65 billion, employment of 919 in Washington and an additional 4,761 employees elsewhere in the world. Throughout North America, Saltchuk companies provide Air Cargo, Marine Services, Energy Distribution, Domestic Shipping, International Shipping and Logistics. Saltchuk's Corporate Home provides leadership and resources to its companies, but not direct management of their operations. Saltchuk is organized in six lines of business that are responsible for the operation and growth of a related portfolio of businesses: Strat Air, LLC, Aloha Air Cargo, TOTE Maritime, Tropical Shipping, North Star Energy, Shoreline Logistics, and Carlile Transportation. Saltchuk companies specialize in serving non-contiguous regions of the country by having operational density in key US Markets, in particular Alaska, Washington, Hawaii and Florida/Caribbean markets. On the occasion of Saltchuk's Chairman Michael D. Garvey's retirement, he commissioned Byron Birdsall (1937 - 2016), an American painter, to immortalize their industries in painting. Birdsall was one of Alaska's most renowned watercolorists.