"In 1968, Florida-based shipping company Crowley Maritime Corp. loaded a drilling rig onto a barge, hauled it around the Alaska coast to a beach near Prudhoe Bay and helped to open the state's North Slope oil field. A year later, the privately owned company sent a 32-barge sea lift to the oil field, led by a spotter plane to help navigate around ice floes. Crowley's tugboats were among the first to respond to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound, and its barges helped deliver equipment to offshore oil fields from Singapore to the Gulf of Mexico. But after keeping close oil industry ties for over a half-century, Crowley is now looking to the next frontier in energy: renewable power sources like offshore wind. 'I think this industry, offshore wind but renewables in general, is going to be a platform for Crowley as they move forward for the next 100 years, without a doubt,' said Jeff Andreini, the head of Crowley's new energy division, which was created two months ago."
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