Moran Shipping Agencies Inc

Moran Shipping Agencies Inc is a freight forwarding service in North Charleston, SC. The firm provides full-vessel agency attendance and ship husbandry for all vessel types, with coverage extending to all 361 U.S. ports through qualified independent contractors working around the clock, 365 days a year. Its work spans port agency and husbandry care for ships and crews, hub agency management, port vendor management, voyage accounting, and IT and technology services tailored to the maritime industry.

The company staffs its operations with personnel whose backgrounds include captains, mariners, Coast Guard officers, qualified inspectors, ship operators, charterers, brokers, inspectors, and vetting experts, with operations managers averaging over 20 years of agency experience. The team handles compliance with U.S. Customs, Immigration, Coast Guard, and other federal regulations affecting ships, crews, and cargoes, and its employees serve as private sector advisors to the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Coast Guard. Services also include special handling for tankers, LNG and LPG carriers, and offshore rigs, along with hands-on offshore construction logistics supporting renewable energy infrastructure at sea.

The company introduced computerized voyage accounting in the 1970s and pioneered email telex integration and ship-side information and communication technology in the maritime field. It developed an integrated communication network and a voyage accounting and finance system that gives clients instant cost analysis by port, vessel, and service, and it runs its accounting on Microsoft Dynamics/SL with multi-level password protection and SecurID token authorization. In the mid-1990s, Moran formalized a Local Hub Agent Management Program and built standardized operating procedures under an ISO Quality Management System, supported by independent third-party ISO registrar audits. The firm's Port Arthur team delivered and positioned a fully assembled petcoke loader with just four feet of bridge clearance during a four-hour lift, an example of the precision planning and multi-agency coordination the company handles as part of its port agency work.

Services:

• Full-vessel agency attendance
• Hub agency solutions
• Information technology
• Port agency & vessel husbandry
• Voyage accounting