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NEW AGREEMENT WITH NUCOR STEEL
Moran Adds Seven Inland Barges and Two Push Tugs to its Fleet to transport scrap to Nucor's new carbon steel plant in Tunis, N.C. Nucor Steel Co. is one of the largest steel producers and recyclers in the United States, with operating facilities in eight states. Nucor manufactures a variety of carbon and alloy steel in bar and structural forms, as well as metal building systems and steel bearing products. Moran has had a business relationship with Nucor for some time, transporting scrap destined for mills in Berkely, South Carolina and Blytheville, Arkansas as well as providing a number of marine transportation services in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Consequently Moran was very pleased to be selected to provide tug and barge services to move ferrous scrap material to Nucor's new recycling steel mill in North Carolina. In October, 2000, Nucor substantially completed the construction of a new state-of-the-art $400,000,000 carbon steel plate mill on a 900 acre site on the Chowan River in Tunis, North Carolina where it will recycle scrap steel to make one-quarter inch to two inch thick steel plates suitable for numerous construction projects. The facility is expected to produce one million tons of plate steel per year. Under an agreement between Nucor Steel Corp., the North Carolina State Ports Authority, David J. Joseph Co. (one of the largest iron and scrap suppliers in the world) and Moran, scrap metal will be shipped from various Mid-Atlantic and New England ports to Morehead City, N.C. At Morehead City the scrap will be unloaded from Moran's oceangoing barges and from foreign flag ships into open hopper inland barges. Inland push tugs will then transport the barges through the inland waters of North Carolina to Nucor's mill in Tunis. The North Carolina State Ports Authority was instrumental in causing Nucor to select the port facilities at Morehead City for this operation. In return the Ports Authority agreed to relocate a 40 ton bridge crane to handle Nucor's needs. It is anticipated that a minimum of 350,000 tons of product per year will be shipped through the port destined for the Nucor mill. The inland hopper barges will also transport scrap to the Tunis mill directly from various Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay locations. Moran personnel from various divisions will work as a team to provide the transport equipment and services required by Nucor for their new facility in North Carolina. Bruce Richards, Vice President of Marine Transportation, has overall responsibility for the marketing, chartering and contract administration of Moran's barge division. The day to day scheduling of the ocean going and inland barges is managed by Ron Droop in Greenwich, Connecticut. Paul Horsboll, Vice President of Moran's Virginia Division is responsible for the crewing and operation of the two push tugs. In the Charleston Division, Tim West, Vice President, assists in overseeing the transfer operation. Tim's experience in doing business with Nucor in South Carolina during its initial start-up and then during its recent expansion provided valuable insight into how to meet the needs of this new project. Paul Swensen, Vice President of Moran's Maryland Division is involved in the marketing and effective utilization of the inland hopper barges. Moran will use its existing ocean tugs and barges for the ocean transport portion of the route. For the inland voyage up the Chowan River, Moran purchased two inland push tugs (formerly the Tomahawk and Papoose) and seven inland hopper barges. The newly acquired Moran tugs are twin screw, single modified model hull, steel push tugs. They are equipped with two Detroit Diesel 12V149 engines delivering a total of 1400 hp. The barges are super jumbo inland open hopper barges with an overall length of 260 feet, breadth of 52 feet and depth of 12 feet. Moran christened the two tugs in July, 2001 at the Port of Norfolk and renamed them after the wives of two of its Division Vice Presidents. The Tomahawk is now the Lorette Moran, named after the wife of Paul Horsboll, Vice President and General Manager of Moran Towing of Virginia.. The Papoose is now called Phyllis Moran, named after the wife of Paul P. Swensen, Vice President and General Manager of Moran Towing of Maryland. Both of these division Vice Presidents began their careers with Moran many years ago and have extensive experience in all aspects of towing services and harbor operations. Paul Horsboll joined Moran in New York in 1960 and sailed aboard Moran tugs until 1963 when he came ashore as a dispatcher. He became assistant manager of New York Harbor operations in 1972. In 1978 he assumed duties at Moran's subsidiary in Puerto Rico. He returned in 1980 to Moran Towing of Virginia where he was the Operations Manager until 1995 when he was promoted to Vice President and General Manager. Paul Swensen graduated from the National River Academy in 1975. After sailing as a mate aboard ocean going tugs in the East and Gulf coasts he joined Moran in 1976 as a dispatcher for the Maryland Division. He moved from dispatching to corporate sales for the Mid-Atlantic companies and then in 1985 he was promoted to Vice President and General Manager of the Pennsylvania Division. In 1993 he returned to the Maryland Division as Vice President and General Manager. Moran's fleet of tugs and barges is capable of transporting a wide variety of dry and liquid bulk products. Moran is very proud of its ability to bring together the equipment and personnel necessary to meet its customers' specific transportation requirements. |
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