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Moran Appoints Two Top Executives Capt. Russell G. McVay has been appointed vice president of operations for Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc. to succeed Capt. Leonard G. Goodwin, it was announced by Thomas E. Moran, president. Captain Goodwin, an interna- tionally respected authority on ocean towing and a Moran em- ployee for nearly four decades, has retired but will remain with the firm as marine consultant. Edmond J. Moran Jr. has been named manager, Moran Barge Di- vision, a new post which includes management of all Moran ocean- going, dry bulk, and tank barges as well as oil transportation barges of Seaboard Shipping Company, a Moran subsidiary in New York. Both appointments are effective July 1, 1983. Captain McVay is a graduate of the United States Merchant Ma- rine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. He served as master in Moran off- shore tugs until assigned manage- rial duties with a Baltimore, Maryland affiliate of Moran in 1969. Appointed manager, Sea- board Shipping Company in 1973 with headquarters in One World Trade Center, New York City, Capt. McVay moved his family to Manalapan, N.J. Captain McVay was named harbor operations manager for Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc. in 1978. He was respon- sible for the operation of all Moran harbor tugs and oil transportation barges in the Greater Port of New York/New Jersey area, on Long Is- land Sound, and in adjacent waterways. Moran's board of di- rectors elected Capt. McVay as vice president of Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc. in 1980. Edmond J. Moran Jr. is a great-grandson of Michael Moran, founder of the Moran firm in 1860, and the youngest brother of its president, Thomas E. Moran. Prior to coming to his new post in New York, Mr. Moran directed Moran Maritime Services, Inc. to a new business development office located in Houston, Texas. Mr. Moran graduated from Georgetown University in Wash- ington, D.C. in 1967, completed studies in its Graduate School of Foreign Service the following year and joined the corporate planning division of States Marine Lines in New York. A member of the U.S. Naval Re- serve, he was called to active serv- ice and assigned duty at the Navy's nuclear submarine base in Groton, Conn. In 1971, Mr. Moran joined the family firm as a member of its sales department in its New York headquarters. Turning to corporate finance, Mr. Moran was appointed assis- tant vice president of finance in 1973. With Moran's acquisition of the Florida Towing Company in 1976, he was named vice president and general manager of the Jack- sonville, Fla., firm. In 1981, Governor Bob Gra- ham of Florida appointed Mr. Moran to his Board of Pilot Com- missioners as the second mari- time-oriented commissioner to serve on the board. He is credited with revitalizing the Florida Tow- ing Company with fresh goals, new operating equipment and with instilling a strong spirit of dedica- tion to the port's needs. While with the Florida Towing Company, Mr. Moran also served as general manager of Moran Towing of Texas, a Gulf Coast sub- sidiary in Port Arthur. $47-Million Refit Contract For 4 Canadian Destroyers Awarded Burrard Yarrows Burrard Yarrows Corporation, has been awarded a long-term con- tract to refit four MacKenzie-class Canadian naval destroyers. The contract, worth about $47 million (Can.), was signed recently in Victoria, British Columbia, by Supply & Services Minister, Jean- Jacques Blais, and Minister of National Defense, Gilles Lamontagne. The destroyer Qu'Appelle, Yu- kon, Saskatchewan, and Mac- Kenzie will be refitted in that order at Burrard Yarrows Corporation's Victoria Division over the next four years, providing IV2 months' work in each of those years. 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