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25 Years Handling LPG Tankers On The Pisquataqua Although it doesn't generate quite the same amount of attention as working with LNG tankers, each year MORAN tugs escort two dozen or more large, foreign-flag tankers, each loaded with about 400,000 barrels of liquid propane gas (LPG) up the Pisquataqua River to a storage terminal in Newington, N.H. MORAN has been providing this service for about 25 years, often with the same high-profile security and maneuvering precautions as are provided to high-profile LNG tankers, according to Robert Stewart, vice president and general manager of Moran Towing of New Hampshire. Three MORAN tugs are assigned to each transit of a LPG tanker, led by the 3,200 hp twin-screw tug Mary M. Coppedge. The same tugs also provide shipdocking services at the Sea-3 Inc. LPG terminal in Newington. Since each transit involves passage through two bridges and navigation of narrow waterways with considerable tidal current, they are mostly made at slack high water during daylight hours. MORAN has been providing maritime docking services on the Pisquataqua River since the 1960s. |
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