Description Tropical Shipping and Construction is a company with a good latitude, providing that you like destinations in the Western Hemisphere. The company is a leading marine carrier of containerized freight in the Caribbean. Tropical Shipping ships refrigerated, dry, and less-than-container load (in which a single container contains freight from multiple shippers); it also offers cargo transfer services along with ground (rail and truck) and air cargo services (US to Caribbean). The company's fleet consists of about 20 ships ranging from 24 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) to 1,118 TEU in capacity. Founded in 1954 as Birdsall Construction Company, Tropical Shipping is a subsidiary of natural gas distributor Nicor.
Tropical Shipping has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 51 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tropical Shipping employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).
Overall, 70% of employees would recommend working at Tropical Shipping to a friend. This is based on 52 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
100% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Tropical Shipping as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Tropical Shipping.