Moran Towing

TTB 2025: The tug operators’ roundtable

At Marine Log’s Tugs, Towboats & Barges (TTB) 2025 in Mobile, Ala., the tugboat industry will take center stage as leading professionals gather to tackle the pressing issues shaping today’s tug operations. On March 25-26, the “Tug Operations Panel” will offer an in-depth discussion on the challenges, innovations, and trends that are influencing the future of the sector.

Moderated by Peter S. Soles, Principal of Business Development at Glosten, this session will feature insights from Capt....

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Gulf LNG Tugs orders four RApport 2800 tugs

Gulf LNG Tugs of Port Arthur LLC has announced the acquisition of four cutting-edge, high-horsepower tugboats designed for the Port Arthur LNG export facility in Texas. These Low Emission (LEV) RApport 2800 tugboats will be built by Master Boat Builders Inc. in Coden, Ala., and Sterling Shipyard LLC in Port Neches, Texas.

A joint venture of Bay-Houston Towing from Houston, Texas; Moran Towing Corporation from New Canaan, Conn.; and Suderman & Young Towing Company, also based in Houston, Gulf LNG...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/gulf-lng-tugs-orders-four-rapport-2800-tugs/

Moran wins 8-tug MSC contract with $92 million potential

Moran Towing Corp., New Canaan, Conn., has been awarded a $17,667,600 firm-fixed-price contract with reimbursable elements for eight time-chartered, U.S. flagged and Jones Act compliant tugs to provide harbor support services and ship handling at Norfolk, Va.

The contract includes one firm period of 366 days with three 365-day option periods, and one 336-day option period. If exercised, the options would bring the Moran Towing contract’s total cumulative value to $92,042,296.

Work will be...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/coastal/moran-wins-8-tug-msc-contract-with-92-million-potential/

Seamen’s Church Institute hosts 44th annual Silver Bell Awards

Silver Bell Award went to Ned Moran

On Thursday, June 9, the Seamen’s Church Institute gathered leaders in the shipping and maritime industry for its 44th Annual Silver Bell Awards Dinner (SBA) at Pier 60 in New York City. This year, the SBA honored Edmond J. (Ned) Moran— Director, Moran Towing Corporation—with the Lifetime Achievement Award and the U.S. maritime academies with the Silver Bell Award.

“We are proud to honor Ned tonight with our lifetime service award for his 40 years of distinguished service and commitment to our...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/seamens-church-institute-hosts-44th-annual-silver-bell-awards/

Washburn & Doughty building multiple new tugs for Moran

The contract includes options to build up to 10 new tugs. The shipyard has built 38 tugs for Moran since September 1999. Jensen Maritime Consultants photo

Washburn & Doughty, East Boothbay, Maine, is building at least two new 86’x35’x15’10”, Tier 4, ASD ship assist/escort, Z-drive tugs for Moran Towing Corp., New Canaan, Conn. The contract includes options to build up to 10 new tugs. (The shipyard has built 38 tugs for Moran since September 1999.)

Jensen Maritime Consultants, Seattle, is doing the design work for the new tugs. “There are two under contract,” said Jonathan Parrott, senior naval architect at Jensen Maritime, “and options for...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/washburn-doughty-building-multiple-tugs-moran/

Jensen Maritime designing new Tier 4 tugs for Moran

The new boats will be the latest in a series of seven Jensen-designed tugs for Moran over the past decade. Crowley Maritime Corp. rendering

Jensen Maritime Consultants, the Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering subsidiary of Crowley Maritime Corp., has been awarded the contract to design 86’x36’x15’10” ship assist and escort tugboats for Moran Towing Corp., a New Canaan, Conn., tug-and-barge operator on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts. The tugs will be constructed at Washburn & Doughty Shipyard, East Boothbay, Maine, and will be the latest in a series of seven Jensen-designed tugs for Moran over the past decade.

New...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/jensen-maritime-designing-new-tier-4-tugs-for-moran/