Astute river watchers may have noticed a slight change in the color field of the harbor recently.
Of the many tugboats that ply the waters of New York harbor, the most familiar ones might be the Moran and McAllister company tugs, both red in color but identifiable by two distinct features. While they both sport the same shade of red, the ones with the big M’s on their stacks belong to Moran while the McAllister tugs show two stripes on the tips of their stacks.
Over the past week we’ve noticed that Moran’s big white M’s are now a pretty pink, and so we got Peter R. Keyes on the phone to ask why. He’s Moran’s Vice President, New York and Offshore Operations.
Mr. Keyes explained that every October for the past couple years, Moran has been painting the M’s on their stacks pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month. “Members of our company have been touched by this disease and it’s our way of bringing awareness to the subject,” he said. “We don’t send out a press release but go about in own own quiet way, honoring the efforts to fight the disease.”