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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 |
New, advanced tractor tug launched for MORAN service at LNG terminal The most advanced tugboat in MORAN’s history was launched from a Maine shipyard in late October, and a sister tug expected to be delivered in mid-2004. The 5,000 hp z-drive tractor-style tug Kaye E. Moran was launched at the Washburn & Doughty shipyard in East Boothbay, Maine, at high tide on October 28. The new tug, and its sister tug, was designed to assist some of the largest LNG tankers in the world calling at a newly-reactivated gas importation facility on Chesapeake Bay. Kaye E. Moran is a 92-foot tug with ship assist winches on bow and stern and up to 10,600 gpm fire-fighting capability. She is the 13th z-drive tractor tug to join the Moran fleet. All but four of those tractor tugs have been built at the Washburn & Doughty shipyard. "These are very special kind of tugboat," said senior vice president Ned Moran. "We’re happy to have the opportunity to invest in this equipment because it puts us at the forefront of the kind of technology that is needed to perform well in the LNG industry." The newly-outfitted Kaye E. Moran, is slated to join other 5,000 hp tugs providing ship-assist services for LNG tankers at the recently-reopened Dominion Cove Point LNG storage terminal south of Baltimore, Maryland, on the Chesapeake. Kaye E. Moran is named in honor of Kaye Barker the wife of MORAN’s Vice Chairman James R. Barker. The second tug will be named James R. Moran in honor of Mr. Barker. It is particularly appropriate that these two tugs will be working together just like their namesakes, said MORAN officials. MORAN already provides similar ship-assist services for LNG tankers calling at a terminal on the Savannah River in Georgia. As many as 90 LNG tankers per year could eventually be arriving at the Cove Point facility, depending on such variables as natural gas price and supply and on the rate of gas consumption in the U.S. The Southern LNG terminal at Elba Island on the Savannah River, by comparison, has been processing about 60 tankers a year since it reopened in late 2001. The Cove Point facility includes an offshore terminal – about a mile offshore – which can handle two tankers at once, as well as an onshore storage site. A pipeline for gas and an underground bicycle tunnel for transporting people connect the offshore pier to the mainland. Built in the 1970s, the Cove Point terminal received LNG shipments only between 1978 and 1980, and had been shut down in the more than two decades prior to its recent reopening. The Cove Point terminal is the largest LNG import facility in the U.S. and was acquired by Dominion in September 2002. The facility has storage capacity of five billion cubic feet. In addition to cargo brought in by ship, the facility also receives gas by pipeline. A fifth LNG tank at Cove Point is currently under construction. MORAN’s next new tug, the James R. Moran, is also expected to be stationed at the Cove Point LNG facility. She is expected to be delivered by early summer, 2004. |
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