**Exhibit 31.1**

**CertificationPursuant toSection 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002**

I, Randall J.Larson, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief AccountingOfficer of TransMontaigne GP L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability companyand general partner of TransMontaigne Partners L.P. (the “Company”), certifythat:

1.                I have reviewedthis Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of TransMontaigne PartnersL.P. for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2006;

2.                Based on myknowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material factor omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, inlight of the circumstances under which such statements were made, notmisleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3.                Based on myknowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information includedin this report, fairly present in all material respects the financialcondition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, andfor, the periods presented in this report;

4.                I am responsiblefor establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as definedin Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for theregistrant and have:

(a)           Designed suchdisclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under my supervision, to ensure that materialinformation relating to the registrant, including its consolidatedsubsidiaries, is made known to me by others within those entities, particularlyduring the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b)          Evaluated theeffectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures andpresented in this report my conclusions about the effectiveness of thedisclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by thisreport based on such evaluation; and

(c)           Disclosed in thisreport any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reportingthat occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (theregistrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that hasmaterially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, theregistrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5.                I have disclosed,based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financialreporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of theregistrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalentfunctions):

(a)           All significantdeficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internalcontrol over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adverselyaffect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and reportfinancial information; and

(b)          Anyfraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees whohave a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financialreporting.

| Date: November 8, 2006 |     |                                                                             |
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|                        |     | /s/ RANDALL J. LARSON                                                            |
|                        |     | Randall J. Larson                                                                |
|                        | * * | *Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer  and Chief Accounting Officer* |

 

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