Bay Towing

  • Paul P. Swensen has been elected vice president and general manager of the Curtis Bay Towing Company of Pennsylvania, according to an announcement by Malcolm W. MacLeod, president.

    Mr. Swensen came ashore in 1976 to join Curtis Bay Towing as a dispatcher in the Baltimore office.

    In 1978, he was promoted to corporate sales representative and continued in that capacity until April of 1985, when he was assigned to Curtis Bay Towing Company of Pennsylvania as acting general manager.

    Prior to joining Curtis Bay Towing, Mr. Swensen sailed as mate and relief captain aboard coastwise and oceangoing tugboats. He is a graduate of the National River Academy and served in the United States Coast Guard Reserve. He has had an active role in The Propeller Club of Baltimore, The Maryland Marine Club and is a member of The Seascout Executive Committee of Baltimore.

    Curtis Bay Towing Company operates transporation and marine towage services in the mid-Atlantic Region.

  • The election of John F. Bandon to the position of vice president and general manager of Curtis Bay Towing Co. of Pennsylvania was recently announced by Malcolm W. MacLeod, president. Mr. Bandon succeeds the former manager of Curtis Bay's Philadelphia, Pa.-based operation, Eric W.L. Heeley, who

  • Curtis Bay Towing Company has announced two promotions to its executive staff. Effective January 1, 1980, Malcolm W. MacLeod, executive vice president, has been elected president and chief executive officer of the firm. He succeeds Capt. Frank J. Hughes who has served in that position since 1966

  • Thomas E. Moran, chairman of Moran Towing Corporation, recently announced that Curtis Bay Towing Company, the 78-year-old marine transportation company, will change its name at its three ports of operation to Moran Towing of Maryland, Inc., Moran Towing of Pennsylvania, Inc., and Moran Towing of

  • on April 11 of last year, to rescue fellow crew member Richard Lisa, who was trapped in an oxygen-deficient hold of a barge owned by Penobscot Bay Towing Company of Belfast, Maine. Mr. Lisa survived the barge accident, but his two 20-year-old rescuers suffocated and drowned in two-feet of bilge

  • career aboard tugs in New York Harbor, coming ashore to work in both operations and chartering for Boyd, Weir and Sewell. He later joined the Curtis Bay Towing Company as a sales representative in its New York office. Mr. Moran holds a degree in business administration from Gettysburg College, Pa.,

  • MR May-24#59 In the Shipyard
Green Ship Designs & Deliveries
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    In the Shipyard Green Ship Designs & Deliveries Sanmar Delivers Camperdown to Targe Towing MISC Makes a Move MISC Toward Ammonia MISC entered into Time Charter Party Contracts (TCP) with PETCO Trading Labuan Company Ltd Sanmar Shipyards (PTLCL) via its petroleum arm, AET for the world’s Sanmar Shipyards

  • MR May-24#49  bases at Bangor and Kings Bay respectively, a  tion for)
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    , which helps position the fuel transfer hoses. And dome on top that provides ballistic missile-tracking informa- at the Navy’s bases at Bangor and Kings Bay respectively, a tion for the Missile Defense Agency. pair of T-AGSE ships support the movement of submarines in Today, as it has for 75 years, MSC

  • MR Apr-24#38 Tech Files
Latest Products, Systems and Ship Designs
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    Tech Files Latest Products, Systems and Ship Designs Zero-Emission Mooring Service of a Tanker Consulmar achieved a milestone by executing what it calls ing boat Castalia, which operates on full electric propulsion. the world's ? rst zero-emissions mooring service for a tanker. Equipped with two 150 kW

  • MR Apr-24#27 RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND
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    RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND With COVID, we had to make some hard choices for our Do your CIVMARs have upward mobility? mariners because we couldn’t rotate. Many of our mariners The Navy has Sailors who become “Mustangs,” and work found other employment, and were able to use their skills

  • MR Apr-24#26 FEATURE INTERVIEW 
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    FEATURE INTERVIEW “Over the next decade, 12 new classes of ships will come online and MSC will see up to 20 new ships deliver to the ? eet in the next ? ve years. This includes new oilers, towing, salvage and rescue tugs, and expeditionary fast transports and emergency medical ships. A large

  • MR Apr-24#25 RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND
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    RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND Photo by Brian Suriani USN Military Sealift Command From a global supply chain perspective, What makes MSC so vital to the we’ve learned a lot about dealing with Navy’s ? eet and our military disruptions. COVID delivered a big forces around the world? wake-up

  • MR Apr-24#19  vessel through its Fincantieri Bay Ship-
building subsidiary)
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    building hulls in Romania, Spain and Vietnam that are completed and commissioned in Norway. The compa- ny is also building a vessel through its Fincantieri Bay Ship- building subsidiary in the USA. The most popular design in the VARD 4 19 platfrom. Far behind VARD is the Turkish yard Cemre, building Havyard

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  • MT Mar-24#40 NEW TECH OCEANOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 2024
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    NEW TECH OCEANOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 2024 All photos courtesy MTR unless otherwise noted NEW TECH, PARTNERSHIPS LAUNCH IN LONDON With Oceanology International now one month in the rear-view mirror, MTR takes a look at some of the interesting technologies launched before, during and after the London event.

  • MT Mar-24#25 Auerbach explained that ideally, “one  ?  ed layers of)
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    Auerbach explained that ideally, “one ? ed layers of geothermal activity,” noted changes over an area of 8,000 km2. They would have both instruments: seismom- Skett, “and the change in salinity and dis- found up to seven km3 of displaced ma- eters to detect and locate subsurface ac- solved particles for

  • MT Mar-24#24 FEATURE  OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION & SENSORS
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    FEATURE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION & SENSORS DTIS from above, during the tow over the summit of New Volcano 1. This area is roughly 50km from Tongatapu and representative of how Hunga-Tonga Hunga Ha’apai would have looked. Image courtesy NIWA-Nippon Foundation TESMaP / Rebekah Parsons-King 24

  • MT Mar-24#12  Sentinel Glider in 
Cape Cod Bay for testing.
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    TECH FEATURE TELEDYNE SLOCUM GLIDERS Teledyne Webb Research Engineers deploy the Slocum Sentinel Glider in Cape Cod Bay for testing. Teledyne Webb Research AS THE GLIDER COMMUNITY GROWS, SO DO GLIDERS By Shea Quinn, Slocum Glider Product Line Manager, Teledyne Marine 12 March/April 2024 MTR #3 (1-17).

  • MT Mar-24#11 assist in identifying mines and act as a 
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    assist in identifying mines and act as a neutralization device. About the Author Bottom mines pose even greater chal- David R. Strachan is a defense analyst and founder of lenges. Unlike contact mines, bottom Strikepod Systems, a research and strategic advisory mines utilize a range of sensors to

  • MN Apr-24#42 People &
Companies
Nevey to Head  TAI Hires Kalla
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    People & Companies Nevey to Head TAI Hires Kalla Washington State Ferries TAI Engineers appointed Amer Steve Nevey has been selected to Kalla as director of production design. serve as assistant secretary for the FMC Names Usman CIO Washington State Ferries Division, Nevey Schwandt succeeding Patty

  • MN Apr-24#40  its new ferry in Galveston Bay. Named for the 
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    Eisenhower, and the 8-inch General Swing. Esperanza “Hope” Andrade The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) christened its new ferry in Galveston Bay. Named for the ? rst female chair of the TxDOT and ? rst Latina Secre- tary of State, Esperanza “Hope” Andrade, the vessel was designed by The Shearer

  • MN Apr-24#31 McAllister Towing
Grace McAllister, one of three sisters)
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    McAllister Towing Grace McAllister, one of three sisters from Washburn & Doughty. ered WINDEA Courageous, the ? rst of three CTVs for an earlier contract with Windea CTV LLC. Other shipyards known to be build- ing CTVs at the moment include Blount Boats and Sensesco Marine, both in Rhode Island

  • MN Apr-24#30  
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    lengthier per MARAD) to be deployed at the Equinor/ BP Empire terms and lower interest rates, for vessels serving offshore Wind projects. Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, in Sturgeon wind) indicate a total cost of $246.7 million. Bay, Wis., is building an SOV (with a pricetag of $168 mil- GLDD is also supporting

  • MN Apr-24#29 engines from Caterpillar. Another in 
the series, Isabel)
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    engines from Caterpillar. Another in the series, Isabel McAllister, will be delivered in 2024. Construction of new vessels for the offshore wind markets has fallen short of the boom times forecast only several years ago amid calls for “30 by 30” (30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore power gen- erated by

  • MN Apr-24#28 , architected by Elliott Bay 
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    storage station at the Port of San Diego.” The Maritime Partners tug (with its hydrogen fuel cell fed from a methanol reformer), architected by Elliott Bay Design Group, and originally slated for a 2023 delivery, is now scheduled for 2024 delivery. Master Boat Builders is also constructing more conven- tional

  • MN Apr-24#24  Island Sound and Narragansett Bay,  blades which could lead)
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    corridor extending from the lease interference and re? ectivity due to the turbine structures and area north into Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay, blades which could lead to degrading effectiveness and con- making landfall near Quonset Point in North Kingstown, fusing navigational pictures.

  • MN Apr-24#22  and Vessel Inspection Circular  Bay and the Virginia coast)
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    Planning Guidelines detailed in sible fairways are adjacent to lease areas off the Delaware Enclosure 4 to Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular Bay and the Virginia coast. 02-23 (“Guidance on the Coast Guard’s Roles and Re- In its Notice, the Coast Guard asserts that ocean fairways sponsibilities

  • MN Apr-24#13 Q&A
We’ve still got some work to do. Despite the new guid-)
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    Q&A We’ve still got some work to do. Despite the new guid- Looking across the industry, what are some ance, we are seeing differences in the way that the Coast other important regulatory issues that AWO is Guard is applying crewing and life-saving requirements to currently paying attention to? ATBs from

  • MN Apr-24#12 Insights
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    Insights century technology in 2024.” That’s an area of focus. industry. We want to do that in a realistic way. These are We also want to make sure that we have workers on our great careers where a hardworking person can make a six- vessels who are ? t for duty. One of the things that we have ? gure

  • MR Feb-24#22 R&D
MATT HART 
Matt Hart, Manager & Platform Leader)
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    R&D MATT HART Matt Hart, Manager & Platform Leader, Marine & Stationary Power Systems, Wabtec, offers insights on how the megatrends of decarbonization, energy transition and autonomy all inspire Image courtesy Wabtec and impact the marine power solutions from Wabtec. By Greg Trauthwein Matt, to start