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March, 2008 Moran Tug Service Signs Contract with Cameron LNG January, 2008 Moran Commences Operations in Two North Carolina Ports January, 2008 Moran Acquires a Tugboat Simulator from MarineSafety International April, 2007 Once Again, Moran Towing of Texas Receives the OSPRA Award January, 2007 Continued Growth for Moran LNG ship-docking services December, 2006 Moran Towing and Compania Maritima Pacifico Sign Long Term Marine Services Agreement November, 2006 Paul R. Tregurtha Voted "Maritime Man of the Year" by Massachusetts Maritime Academy November, 2006 Moran's Participation in U.S. Coast Guard Demonstration Earns Citation for Merit October, 2006 Expansive Tugs Area Maritime Company Adds Boats to its Fleet News Article Archive |
April, 2004 MORAN assists with Coast Guard training effort Moran Towing of Maryland assisted the U.S. Coast Guard for several months during the winter of 2004 with training of boarding officers who are charged with enforcing security requirements in dozens of shipping ports of the United States. MORAN’s office in Baltimore made part of its fleet of four tugs available on a weekly basis so that Coast Guard boarding officers could practice boarding, inspection and interrogation techniques in a realistic setting. "The people at MORAN have been a tremendous help," said Coast Guard Lt. Chris Woodle, from the Coast Guard’s Marine Inspections and Investigations School in Yorktown, Va. "We’ve gotten a lot of good feedback from everyone involved with this program," he added. Paul P. Swensen, vice president and general manager of MORAN’s Baltimore office, said some of his own employees had also benefited from observing and participating in the program. "We volunteered our boats, our crews and parts of our facility here that they could use for meetings and debriefing after each exercise," said Swensen. Coast Guard officers involved in the training program were regular boarding officers receiving supplemental training on security issues while on temporary assignment at the Yorktown training school. The Maritime Institute of Training & Graduates (MITAGS) in Baltimore developed the specific training program, along with simulated scenarios with crews and boats. Training on MORAN tugs typically involved the use of actors playing the role of captain and other crewmembers, and two or three Coast Guard boarding agents. Much of the program involved techniques for ensuring that the vessel involved, and its crew, would be in compliance with the dictates of whatever maritime security threat level might be in force at any given time. A focus on MORAN’s Baltimore tugs involved issues of access to vessels, crew identification, facility compliance, communication and on-board security, according to the Coast Guard’s Lt. Woodle. "When we reach a certain security level, the tradition of a tugboat lying at its dock with all of its entry points open to the breeze might not be appropriate," he explained. That situation, he explained, might be similar to that of a ship lying at anchor in port with its pilot ladder hanging down to the water level. Moran Towing of Maryland, a subsidiary of Moran Towing Corp., is the dominant tugboat company in Baltimore, a 300-year-old port on Chesapeake Bay, which handled more than twenty-five million tons of cargo in 2003. |
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