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 MORAN'S Expanding Tractor Tug Fleet With more than 80 tugboats in operation, MORAN is currently operating one of the largest tug fleets in the United States, providing service in 13 busy ports from Texas to New Hampshire. Within the next year, however, MORAN will also be operating the largest fleet of twin z-drive tractor tugs on the Eastern Seaboard and the second largest such fleet in the nation. The company has added two new tractor tugs in the last year, with two more slated for delivery by the end of 2006. The fleet got a big boost at the beginning of 2006 with the launch of the 6,000 hp FiFi-1 class tractor Edward J. Moran, one of the most powerful tractor tugs operating on the East Coast. In mid-2005 MORAN introduced the 5,100 FiFi-1 tug Lynne Moran for service in Port Arthur, Texas (see story on page 8). In 2004 Moran introduced Kaye E. Moran and James R. Moran, 5,100 hp tugs involved with the Cove Point LNG terminal on Chesapeake Bay.  Moran currently operates 15 tractor tugs. By the end of 2006, the company expects to be operating 17 such vessels, all with azimuthing twin z-drives. Moran’s fleet also includes four MorTrac® or combi-tug vessels with azimuthing z-drive forward and conventional propeller aft. Those tugs are currently undergoing propulsion upgrades with the addition of Nautican high-performance nozzles with triple-rudder systems. Edward J. Moran, with full firefighting capability and powered by a pair of EMD 710 series diesels, is assigned to service at the Elba Island LNG terminal near Savannah, Georgia. She, like the majority of the company’s tractor tugs, was built at the Washburn & Doughty shipyard in East Boothbay, Maine.  MORAN's tractor tug fleet has grown since the late 1990s when the first of six Marci-class tugs was introduced for service for the U.S. Navy in Norfolk. During the same period a pair of conventional, twin-screw tugs was converted to twin zdrive design and also put into service for the Navy. Moran’s purchase of Turecamo Maritime in 1998 resulted in the acquisition of the 6,000 hp Elizabeth Turecamo, currently stationed in Charleston, S.C. And, since 2001, the company has introduced six new tractors, most assigned to work at LNG terminals, including the latest addition – Edward J. Moran. |
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