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Company Profile million-gallon business and has developed it into a 10-million gallon business. We do a lot of marine fueling here and also have a transportation company (Tasha Trucking) that transports all of our fuel to all of our terminals and Kabraul also runs that now and buys all the fuel and gasoline for our service stations. We have a fleet of CITGO and some Shell stations and he helps maintain and run those with our other managers, along with managing Loud Fuel Co." Indeed, Loud Fuel has grown to offer a wide variety of services to a customer base that stretches along Massachusetts Route 3 and U.S. Route 6, which runs like a spine through the Cape Cod peninsula, from Plymouth in the west to Orleans in the east. "Back in 1994 when we bought Loud Fuel Co., it was basically a one-truck operation," said Kabraul Tasha. "I drove the truck and my wife, Julie, was in the office answering phones and collecting money. Since then, we've gone from a heating-oil company to commercial diesel, which took off, then we got into a large portion of marine fueling. Lately, we've diversified more into biofuels. Now we're hauling a lot of biofuels that come in on rail from the Midwest and we truck them to the source, including having a very large contract with CITGO Petroleum." Marine Fueling With its marine fueling business, Loud Fuel supplies fuel to the Steamship Authority in Woods Hole, Mass., which operates the ferries that carry vehicles and residents/tourists to and from Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Island. Loud Fuel also has a supply contract with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), which is dedicated to research and education designed to advance the understanding of the ocean and its interaction with the Earth system. As part of that research and education, WHOI regularly sends ships out to sea for six months at a time, all of which need to be loaded with upwards of 100,000 gallons of fuel before they depart. "Over time, we got into a large portion of marine fueling," explained Kabraul Tasha. "After years of doing marine fueling, I got into the Coast Guard manual, which is to fill anything over 10,000 gallons of storage, then we started doing 20,000, 30,000 gallons, and now we do boats that hold 100,000, 200,000 or 300,000 gallons. We do big Navy ships, long-line boats that go offshore for 30 days at a time, two draggers that are probably the biggest on the East Coast, which take 6,000 gallons a week." While marine fueling has developed into a profitable niche for Loud Fuel, the most unique – and impressive – marine related Jeff Moskowitz Inside Sales & Customer Service Manager Scully Signal is pleased to announce that Jeff Moskowitz has joined the company as Inside Sales & Customer Service Manager. Jeff is a motivated sales operations manager with a history of team building successes in the medical, IT, telecommunications, energy and aerospace industries. Jeff Brings cross-functional group facilitation to develop process improvement and build rapport easily with both internal and external customers. Jeff Coordinated call center and service administration for manufacturing plants over the last 27 years where he established comprehensive reporting for multinational Fortune 500 firms, created reporting and analysis tools for the sales force, wrote ISO 9000 protocols for sales and marketing, teamed with IT and product management to deploy webbased software interface internally and with key customers, resolved sales problems and provided corrective action and trained sales and service administration staff on systems, product, pricing, terms and conditions and provided on-site instruction and coaching to service staff in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Berlin, Frankfurt, and US locations. 800.272.8559 www.scully.com www.fueloilnews.com | FUEL OIL NEWS | SEPTEMBER 2013 27