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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 Ned Moran takes over as AWO chairman Ned Moran, senior vice president of Moran Towing Corporation, began his term as chairman of the board of American Waterways Operators in April with a pledge to advance programs that encourage safety and accountability throughout the tugboat industry. Mr. Moran, who took over from Ingram Barge Company president Craig Philip at the AWO spring meeting in Washington D.C., said that he would “continue the journey” begun by his predecessors at AWO to ensure greater industry safety and enhance its value to the nation’s economy. "I will consider it a hallmark of my tenure as chairman to secure legislative passage of the towing vessel safety, security and inspection program proposal, and to help the Coast Guard launch a regulatory process to implement it," he said during opening remarks at the organizations annual event. Specifically, Mr. Moran said that he and the AWO leadership team are in full support of the U.S. Coast Guard’s request for an inspection program for the entire tugboat industry. "We think this would be a huge leap forward," said Mr. Moran in separate comments. "It will help us to shed that label of being 'uninspected' which both the public and many people in our own industry equate with being unregulated and unsafe. We will become a better industry after we are all inspected then before," he added. AWO is already the central organizer of the U.S. Responsible Carrier Program that requires member companies to meet certain standards of equipment and safety for each vessel enrolled in the program. In his remarks in April, Mr. Moran also suggested that government agencies as well as private businesses should give preference in assigning contracts to tugboat companies, which are involved in safety management systems such as the Responsible Carrier Program. Mr. Moran said he would also focus during the coming year on helping to close what he descried as loopholes in Jones Act regulations, and in working against a current proposal to extend the financial privileges of the Capital Construction Fund to shipping companies intending to participate in coastwise trade routes. Ned Moran, who began his career with Moran Towing in 1971, has been involved with AWO since the early 1990s. He was asked to join the organization’s board of directors two years ago. AWO, founded in 1944, is an industry advocacy group that represents the large majority of tugboat, barging and inland towboat companies in the U.S. |
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