Tote Maritime Puerto Rico, LLC

Tote Maritime Puerto Rico, LLC, a subsidiary of Saltchuk Resources, Inc., operates as a prime contractor providing ocean and intermodal cargo transportation services to the Department of Defense on a full-and-open basis, holding positions on two major federal sealift vehicles and competing without set-aside designations across 269 recent awards worth $4.56 billion in combined potential value.

Tote Maritime Puerto Rico specializes in consolidated ocean freight transportation and intermodal cargo movements between the continental United States and Puerto Rico, leveraging a fleet of container and roll-on/roll-off vessels based in Jacksonville, Florida and Carolina, Puerto Rico. The company's federal work centers on moving military cargo, equipment, and supplies from strategic air bases and transportation hubs to destinations supporting Department of Defense worldwide operations. Concrete examples include monthly consolidated transportation shipments under the Universal Services Contract 10 (USC-10) ranging from approximately $792,000 to $1.5 million per delivery order (Department of the Air Force, 2024–2026), multi-month delivery orders under the Ocean and Intermodal Cargo Transport 2019 vehicle for $2.59 million (Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, 2022) and $3.6 million (Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, Q1 2022), and a Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) Contingency Services master contract valued at approximately $2 billion for contingency sealift operations (Department of the Air Force, 2024–2034).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense logistics organizations. The Department of the Air Force accounts for $4.01 billion of the combined potential value (14 awards), dominated by the USC-10 IDIQ ceiling of $4 billion awarded September 1, 2024. The Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command follows with 82 awards totaling $417.9 million in combined potential value, driven by the Ocean and Intermodal Cargo Transport 2019 vehicle. Air Mobility Command has placed 29 awards worth $94.4 million. Together these three customers account for over 95% of recent award volume and the vast majority of dollar value. The Office of the Secretary of Defense (123 awards, $14.8 million combined potential value) places numerous small orders; the Navy Military Sealift Command has placed one $5.2 million order.

Tote Maritime Puerto Rico holds primary vehicle positions on USC-10 (Universal Services Contract 10), a $4 billion multiple-award IDIQ under Air Mobility Command with an August 31, 2026 completion date, on which it has received 13 delivery orders totaling approximately $14.8 million as of October 1, 2025. The company also holds a position on the Ocean and Intermodal Cargo Transport 2019 multiple-award IDIQ administered by Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, which has generated 56 task orders worth $61.3 million combined potential value. A third significant vehicle is the VISA Contingency Services contract (awarded October 1, 2024, ultimate completion September 30, 2034) valued at approximately $2 billion, establishing Tote Maritime as a contingency sealift provider for worldwide Department of Defense operations. The company also participates in several legacy or smaller-ceiling vehicles: USTRANSCOM Sealift Cargo Transportation 2011–2014 (57 task orders, $7.3 million), USTRANSCOM Universal Service Contract-8 (34 task orders, $16.8 million), and USTRANSCOM USC-7 International Surface Transportation (42 task orders, $780 thousand).

Award activity has grown from 8 awards in 2022 to a peak of 17 in 2024, with 13 awards in 2025 and 2 awards in the first two months of 2026. The portfolio is dominated by fixed-price delivery orders with economic price adjustment provisions, structured as monthly or quarterly consolidated shipments. Obligation-to-potential-value ratio stands at 3 percent ($127.7 million obligated of $4.56 billion potential), indicating a backlog of unexercised ceiling capacity. The NAICS profile is 257 awards under Deep Sea Freight Transportation with 11 under Coastal and Great Lakes Freight Transportation; PSC coding is predominantly Transportation/Travel/Relocation—Transportation: Vessel Freight (261 awards). Tote Maritime operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data, performing all work directly through its own vessel operations and logistics infrastructure.