Established over seventy years ago as retailers of hardware and household goods, Tarcisio Caruana Ltd. runs a well-established retail outlet in Birzebbugia and is now in its third generation. With the development of the Malta Freeport in Marsaxlokk, the company supplies vessels there and in Valletta harbour and Malta Shipyards with deck, galley and engine stores, provisions, and British Admiralty charts and nautical publications, including OPL supplies by launch. Stock covers around 20,000 items, and the company is the Maltese distributor of Americol Marine Chemicals (listed in the IMPA marine stores guide).