Universal Environmental Solutions

What Universal Environmental Solutions does

Universal Environmental Solutions is a privately held, for-profit industrial services company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida. The firm specializes in gas freeing and tank cleaning of ocean-going vessels — a niche maritime service involving the removal of hazardous vapors, inert gases, and cargo residues from ship tanks prior to inspection, repair, or cargo changeover. Operations are delivered by a small team of 11-50 employees under the leadership of founder and president Edward Kinley.

The service offering is operationally specialized rather than technology-driven; gas freeing and tank cleaning typically require confined-space entry expertise, inert-gas handling capability, and compliance with international maritime safety and environmental standards such as SOLAS, MARPOL, and IMSBC codes. No proprietary technology platform, software product, or AI-enabled tooling is documented in available sources. The revenue model is not publicly disclosed, but the B2B service is consistent with project- or per-vessel contracts with shipping operators, tanker owners, charterers, and shipyards calling at Tampa-area and Gulf Coast ports.

Available public-facing data on the company is thin. The firm's listed website domain (uestampa.com) currently resolves to an unrelated parking page operated by Spaceship, Inc., indicating either a lapse in domain management, a recent rebranding to a different web presence, or limited current marketing activity. No funding rounds, customer references, partnerships, awards, M&A activity, or expansion initiatives are documented in the source material, materially constraining the depth of any investment thesis.

Name

Universal Environmental Solutions

Website

https://uestampa.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Universal Environmental Solutions, founded in 2007 in Tampa, Florida, provides gas freeing and tank cleaning services for ocean-going vessels, serving maritime operators with a small specialized crew led by founder and president Edward Kinley.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Marine Environmental Services

NAICS

Ship Building and Repairing (336611), Support Activities for Water Transportation (4883)

SIC

Water Transportation (4400), Oil & Gas Field Machinery & Equipment (3533)

akta.pro primary industry

Tank Cleaning, Gas-Freeing & Class/Safety Compliance Upgrades (IMAJAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Pollution Control & Environmental Remediation (Booming, Skimming, Shoreline Cleanup) (TLAHAIAH), Environmental, Waste & Emissions Control Systems (Wastewater, VOC Capture, Spill Response) (IMAJALAK)

Keywords

• Gas freeing services
• Tank cleaning services
• Marine environmental services
• Ocean vessel maintenance
• Ship tank cleaning

Headquarters

HQ city

Tampa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Universal Environmental Solutions specializes in the gas freeing and tank cleaning of ocean-going vessels. The company delivers marine environmental services that prepare ship tanks and cargo holds for entry, inspection, repair, or change of cargo, supporting shipping operators with compliant vessel preparation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Gas Freeing Services
• Tank Cleaning Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Donjon Marine: US-based marine services company offering ship repair, salvage, and environmental response including tank cleaning and gas freeing on the US East and Gulf coasts; directly comparable niche operator to UES in scope and geography.
• Stolt-Nielsen Limited: Operates the world's largest fleet of chemical tankers and runs in-house tank cleaning terminals and gas-freeing services for its own fleet, while also serving third-party vessels; directly comparable to UES in tank cleaning operations and tanker customer base.
• T&T Marine Salvage: Gulf Coast marine salvage, emergency response, and pollution control company that performs gas freeing, decontamination, and tank cleaning on damaged and operational vessels; direct niche peer with overlapping US Gulf service territory.
• Resolve Marine Group: Specialized marine services and emergency response provider delivering salvage, wreck removal, and pollution response, with adjacent gas-freeing and decontamination capabilities for tankers and offshore vessels — a direct functional peer for hazardous gas work.
• Marine Pollution Services (MPS): US Gulf and East Coast provider of oil spill response, decontamination, and tank/gas freeing services for vessels; directly comparable niche specialist that competes with UES for compliance-driven cleaning work.

Broad incumbents

• Vopak: Global independent tank storage operator with extensive terminal cleaning and gas-freeing infrastructure for chemical and product tankers; competes for the same high-spec cleaning work that UES performs on ocean-going vessels.
• Wilhelmsen Ships Service: Global ship services provider offering marine products, ship agency, and environmental/compliance services including tank cleaning. Larger, diversified incumbent that competes for the same compliance-driven vessel service spend as UES.
• Inchcape Shipping Services: Global port agency and ship services company providing vessel call support, including environmental and tank cleaning services; a broader incumbent competing for the same shipowner compliance budget as UES.
• Crowley Maritime Corporation: Large US-based marine solutions provider with Gulf Coast port operations, vessel services, and ship assist — competes regionally with UES for tank cleaning and marine support work in Tampa and the US Gulf.
• GAC Marine Services: Worldwide ship agency and marine services group providing port services, environmental services, and vessel support across the Gulf and Americas — overlaps UES in tank cleaning and gas-freeing work for calling vessels.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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