-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, IYWykZhpaSjBA7O1q/C9iIG2iQKj0JUcPtNsJCXUiDLJnw1/L/zv3JzAxvd7ToEL a8tT/9mu3aHzne9fpQoPbg== 0000950116-05-002589.txt : 20050801 0000950116-05-002589.hdr.sgml : 20050801 20050801172501 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950116-05-002589 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20050801 ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20050801 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20050801 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MARITRANS INC /DE/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000810113 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: WATER TRANSPORTATION [4400] IRS NUMBER: 510343903 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-09063 FILM NUMBER: 05989316 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1818 MARKET STREET SUITE 3540 CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19103 BUSINESS PHONE: 2158641200 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1818 MARKET STREET SUITE 3540 CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19103 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MARITRANS PARTNERS L P DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 8-K 1 eightk.txt 8-K SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 _____________ FORM 8-K CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): August 1, 2005 ---------------- Maritrans Inc. ---------------------------------------------- (Exact Name of Registrant Specified in Charter) Delaware 1-9063 51-0343903 --------------- ---------------- -------------------- (State or Other (Commission File (I.R.S. Employer Jurisdiction of Number) Identification No.) Incorporation) Two Harbour Place 302 Knights Run Avenue Tampa, Florida 33602 - ------------------------------------------- -------------------- (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (813) 209-0600 -------------- Not Applicable ------------------------------------------------------------ (Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report) Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below): |_| Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |_| Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) |_| Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) |_| Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)) ITEM 8.01 OTHER EVENTS. On August 1, 2005, Maritrans Inc. issued a press release announcing the addition of a vessel to the fleet. The press release is being filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1 and is hereby incorporated herein by reference. ITEM 9.01 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS. (c) Exhibits. 99.1 Press Release, dated August 1, 2005, issued by Maritrans Inc. -2- SIGNATURE Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized. MARITRANS INC. By: /s/ Walter T. Bromfield ----------------------------- Walter T. Bromfield Chief Financial Officer Dated: August 1, 2005 -3- Exhibit Index Exhibit - ------- 99.1 Press Release, dated August 1, 2005, issued by Maritrans Inc. EX-99 2 ex99-1.txt EXHIBIT 99.1 Exhibit 99.1 [Graphic Omitted] MARITRANS NEWS TWO HARBOUR PLACE RELEASE 302 KNIGHTS RUN AVENUE TAMPA, FL 33602 813-209-0600 800-922-4596 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: WALTER T. BROMFIELD (813) 209-0602 JUDITH M. CORTINA (610) 595-8055 MARITRANS ANNOUNCES ADDITION OF VESSEL TO FLEET TIME CHARTERS-IN OIL TANKER TO SERVE STRONG DEMAND TAMPA, FL- August 1, 2005 Maritrans Inc. (NYSE: TUG), a leading U.S. flag marine petroleum transportation company, today announced that it has entered into a three year agreement with Seabrook Carriers Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fairfield-Maxwell LTD. to time charter in the M/V Seabrook, a single-hull oil tanker with a carrying capacity of 230,000 barrels. The agreement will expire in July 2008, after which time the vessel will no longer be eligible to transport petroleum products in accordance with the Oil and Pollution Act of 1990. Subject to delivery and meeting required compliances, the M/V Seabrook will enter Maritrans' service on or about October 1, 2005 and will be deployed into the Company's clean products trade route along the Gulf Coast. The M/V Seabrook will also be available for voyages to the U.S. West Coast and the Northeast. Jonathan Whitworth, Chief Executive Officer of Maritrans commented, "Building on our recent initiatives to re-enter the Northeast barge market as well as to optimize our fleet deployment, we are pleased to have made further progress on the strategic plan that we laid out earlier in the year. The addition of the M/V Seabrook provides us with an immediate increase in carrying capacity during a time of decreasing supply of vessels in the U.S. Jones Act trade. At the same time, Maritrans has enhanced its position to serve the strong demand in the clean products market and take advantage of the attractive rate environment." ABOUT MARITRANS Maritrans Inc. is a U.S. based company with a 77-year commitment to building and operating petroleum transport vessels for the U.S. domestic trade. With 15 units, Maritrans has the largest fleet in its size category and one of the largest serving the U.S. coastwise trade. The fleet consists of four oil tankers and eleven oceangoing married tug/barge units with an aggregate fleet capacity of approximately 3.6 million barrels, of which 69 percent is double-hulled. Maritrans has two primary areas of focus: transporting refined products in the Gulf of Mexico to growth areas such as Florida and supplying Philadelphia area refineries with crude oil lightering from large foreign tankers. Maritrans is headquartered in Tampa, Florida, and maintains an office in the Philadelphia area. MARITRANS ANNOUNCES ADDITION OF VESSEL TO FLEET Page 2 August 1, 2005 SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT The information in this news release includes certain forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, levels of activity, growth, performance, earnings per share or achievements to be materially different from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. These statements are based on assumptions the Company believes are reasonable, but a variety of factors could cause the Company's actual results, goals, targets or objectives to differ materially from those contemplated, projected, forecast, estimated, anticipated, planned or budgeted. Such factors include, among others, changes in oil companies' decisions as to the type and origination point of the crude that it processes, changes in the amount of imported petroleum products, competition for marine transportation, domestic oil consumption, the continuation of federal law restricting United States point-to-point maritime shipping to U.S. vessels (the Jones Act), the timing and success of our double-hull rebuilding program, demand for petroleum products, future spot market rates, demand for our services, levels of foreign imports, changes in interest rates, the effect of war or terrorist activities and the general financial, economic, environmental and regulatory conditions affecting the oil and marine transportation industry in general. The Company is under no duty to update any of these forward-looking statements after the date of this release to conform such statements to actual results. ### -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----