Maritrans to Present at Jefferies Second Annual Shipping Conference

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.