We supply vessels, barges and tugs directly across the US Gulf — stores, safety equipment, provisions and consumables delivered alongside — and assist with marine services where experience at sea makes the difference.
From request to delivery alongside, without the chasing.
Quotes answered within one business day
We supply vessels directly, and behind chandlers and agencies where the relationship already sits with them. We quote from the vessel’s actual specification, not a catalogue guess.
The hardware that keeps the vessel working and the voyage on schedule.
Compliance-driven items, supplied with the paperwork inspectors ask for.
Crew morale is an operational matter. Provisions arrive fresh and correctly stowed.
Correct grades and data sheets, supplied with handling and stowage in mind.
Alongside supply, we assist operators with practical marine matters — drawn from twenty years at sea rather than a brochure. If a requirement is better handled by a class surveyor, an accredited inspector or a lawyer, we will say so plainly.
Practical assistance with cargo and vessel operations from someone who has run them in command.
Port captain attendance and owner’s representation during load, discharge and port calls.
A second, experienced opinion on an operational question before a decision is made.
We deliver to vessels, barges and tugs throughout the Gulf, coordinating with your chandler or agent wherever one is already appointed.
Houston Ship Channel, Bayport, Texas City, Galveston and Barbours Cut.
New Orleans, Baton Rouge, river fleeting areas and mid-stream deliveries.
Corpus Christi, Ingleside, Port Aransas and Brownsville.
Lake Charles, Beaumont, Port Arthur, Mobile and Pascagoula.
Not on the list? Tell us the port and the ETA. If we cannot serve it properly, we will say so plainly rather than promise a delivery that misses your window.
Ask About a PortMost suppliers read a part number. We read the requisition the way the Chief Engineer wrote it, because we have written a few ourselves.
Twenty years of sea time means the specification is understood before it is quoted, and ambiguities are questioned rather than guessed.
A wrong item is not a small error at sea; it is a second delivery, a missed window and a delay. We would rather ask than assume.
Berths, tides and crew changes do not wait. Deliveries are planned against the vessel’s actual schedule.
“I have been the one waiting at the berth for stores that did not come. That is why this company exists.”
Kike’s Emporium LLC is a Texas-registered marine supply company serving vessel, barge and tug operators across the US Gulf Coast. It is led by a master mariner with two decades at sea across oil, gas and chemical tankers, including time in command.
That background is the whole proposition. A requisition is not a shopping list; it is a document written under pressure by an officer who needs a specific thing to keep a vessel running and compliant. Having written and received those lists at sea, we read them properly — and we ask the question rather than shipping the wrong item.
We work alongside ship chandlers and shipping agencies rather than around them, and we would rather decline an order than miss a window we promised to hit.
Vessel, port and ETA is enough to start. We respond within one business day, and we will tell you plainly if we are not the right supplier for the job.
Attach the detail you have. Partial lists are fine — we will come back with questions.
