How we started
Borghese Lane runs towboats out of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, just below Pittsburgh. The company was organized in Pennsylvania in 2011, and Brian Mosesso is its president.
About
Our story
Borghese Lane is a towing company on the three rivers at Pittsburgh. Here is how it got here and who runs it.
Eight boats to eighteen
The fleet grew from 8 towboats to 15 between about 2016 and 2023, and runs 18 today. The work grew with it: line-haul tows down the Ohio, harbor moves in the Pittsburgh pools, and fleets at McKees Rocks and Hannibal, Ohio.
Pittsburgh boats
Every boat hails from Pittsburgh, PA. The office sits at 149 Nichol Avenue in McKees Rocks, at Ohio River mile 4, on the McKees Rocks Industrial Enterprises terminal. Crews work the three rivers that meet at the Point: the Ohio, the Monongahela, and the Allegheny.
Training the next crews
In 2023 we donated training equipment to Mountwest Maritime Academy's new Ohio training site in Woodsfield, about ten minutes from the Hannibal Locks and Dam. New deckhands have to learn the work somewhere, and the river needs more of them.
Today
Eighteen towboats. Dry-bulk cargo: coal, aggregates, and covered hoppers. Line-haul from Pittsburgh down the Ohio, and harbor and fleet work at four fleets from McKees Rocks to southern Indiana.
Leadership
Who runs the company
The people who run the company, and what each one does.
Brian Mosesso
President
Brian Mosesso is the president of Borghese Lane.
Eric Delsandro
Director of Operations
Eric Delsandro is director of operations at Borghese Lane.
Joe Osterberger
Compliance Manager
Joe Osterberger started on deck in 2010 and has been compliance manager since 2016. He is credited with getting the fleet to Subchapter M and keeping it there. The Waterways Journal named him to its 40 Under 40 list in 2023.
Michael McGinness
Operations Manager
Michael McGinness is the operations manager.