Forum Summary: Crowley Maritime Corporation

            An independent “Forum” for shareholders of Crowley Maritime Corporation (OTC: CWLM) will be conducted to define investor interests, monitor the company’s management, and provide anyone responsible for corporate decisions with the information needed to consider Crowley value enhancement opportunities.

            Responding to reported shareholder concerns about perceived management indifference to the interests of public investors, the Forum will focus initially on Crowley policies relating to:

§         reporting of information relevant to investor interests

§      use of corporate assets only for equal benefit of all shareholders

§         splitting of stock

§         listing of common stock

            Some investment professionals believe that changes in these policies – simply to adopt the conventional practices of other publicly traded companies – would significantly improve both the marketability and the market value of the stock.  Currently, although the company is profitable and its business operations are viewed as competitively well managed, the $1,160 price per share in the most recent of three reported trades during the past year offers public investors a market value for Crowley stock at only 0.6 times its $1,853 book value per share (fully diluted, as of December 31, 2003).  Based on an average multiple of 2.3 times book value for the 30 stocks in the Reuters index for the Water Transportation Industry, it is possible that Crowley’s conformance with basic public company standards could increase the realizable market value of its stock by more than 300%.

            To address these and other issues that may be defined, the Forum will conduct a variety of activities to provide investors with the kind of access to information and free exchange of views that might be sought at a traditional shareholders meeting, but with independent control of the process and continuous operation until shareholder interests are resolved.  The company itself will be invited to support the Forum, and it is hoped that the responses of its directors and representatives will permit cooperative communication for the benefit of all decision-makers.  However, even in the absence of management participation beyond obligatory responses to shareholder requests, the Forum may conduct board inquiries, professional workshops, shareholder surveys or other activities as required to produce the information investors need for their evaluations and decisions, and also to present management with information they need to consider in the performance of their duties to shareholders.

            Participation in the Forum will be open to all Crowley shareholders and any professionals concerned with their decisions, without charge, according to the Forum’s stated conditions.  Investors with sufficient interests in Crowley will be encouraged to consider additional participation in an Advisory Panel to help define the issues addressed by the Forum.  All participants are expected to make independent use of information obtained through the Forum, and Forum participation will be considered private unless the party specifically authorizes identification.

            The Forum will be managed by Gary Lutin, the investment banker who conducted the forum programs to resolve investor interests in public demonstration cases regarding Amazon.com, Chesapeake-Shorewood Packaging, Computer Associates, Dun & Bradstreet, Farmer Bros., Lone Star Steakhouse, National Presto, and Willamette Industries.

April 26, 2004