TUG Maritrans Part

Maritrans Inc. (NYSE:TUG), a leading U.S. flag marine petroleum transport company, today announced that the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Jonathan Whitworth, will be presenting at the Jefferies Second Annual Shipping Conference in New York on Thursday September 15, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. A live audio webcast of Maritrans' presentation will be available on the Jefferies website at: http://www.jefferies.com/0905shipping. Maritrans' investor relations material is available on the Company's web site www.maritrans.com. 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 16 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 five oil tankers and eleven oceangoing married tug/barge units with an aggregate fleet capacity of approximately 3.9 million barrels, of which 63 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.