Vessels News – Page 188
-
NewsCummins power for Royal Thai Navy tug
While many navies around the world have withdrawn from the direct ownership of tugs and other auxiliary craft, the Royal Thai Navy has utilised the resources and facilities of its extensive repair yard at Saatahip on the east side of the Gulf of Thailand near Pattaya, to build a tug ...
-
NewsTOWLINES August 2009
Among the recent deliveries from Damen Shipyards was an ASD Tug 2411 for the Mauritius Port Authority named DA Patten. The highly agile 24.47m tug is powered by two Caterpillar 3516 TA HD/D main engines generating a total of 5600 bhp to drive Rolls Royce US 255 fully azimuthing propulsion ...
-
NewsThe new Serco Denholm tug fleet is rapidly taking shape
The appearance of the twin screw tug SD Jupiter at Seawork was noteworthy for a number of reasons. Jupiter is the last of three almost identical tugs to be delivered by Damen Shipyards for use in UK naval dockyards and other facilities and will be rapidly followed by ten other ...
-
NewsTwo tugs capsize and sink within days of each other
In spite of decades of experience and improvements to conventional screw powered tugs, reports of vessels being capsized while towing still occur with depressing regularity. Two such incidents occurred within days of each other in June.
-
NewsSmit Panther heads for home
Smit Panther, the first example of Damen’ s new ASD Tug 3213 design, is en route to its homeport of Rotterdam. The tug is one of a series of four powerful terminal tugs ordered by Smit and constructed at the Damen Hai Pong shipyard in Vietnam.
-
NewsTugowners turn to shore power to cut costs and emissions
Many tug companies around the world are turning to ‘ shore power’ to economise on fuel and cut exhaust emissions when their shiphandling tugs are not in use and/or standing by.
-
News'Fairplay VIII' is to be preserved
On 2 July, Fairplay Towage of Hamburg formally handed over the 47 year old harbour tug Fairplay VIII to the ‘ Foundation Hamburg Maritim’ to join its collection of historic ships.
-
NewsTowlines
Fairmount Expedition and Fairmount Glacier, two modern deepsea tugs from the fleet of Fairmount Marine, have been chartered by the French Government and dispatched to Brazil to participate in the search for the ‘ black box’ flight recorder from the French airliner lost recently over the Atlantic Ocean.
-
NewsPower planning for PLA patrol launches
John Deere engines supplied by Seawork exhibitor E.P. Barrus have been specified to power a fleet of five new, specially designed harbour patrol launches for The Port of London Authority (PLA).
-
News55 years running from the same engine
During this year' s Pentecost weekend the MS Stadt Kiel e.V. Society celebrated the 75th anniversary of its famous ferry boat with a big ‘ open ship’ event at Kiel' s jetty Seegartenbrü cke.
-
NewsTugnology 09 - An intense and fruitful two days!!
Tugnology 09, held in Amsterdam on 19 -21 May, has been proclaimed a great success by the delegates, exhibitors and organisers alike. This was only the second conference of its kind, devoted exclusively to the towage industry.
-
NewsPropulsion world could turn on Axis Drive
It was in 1959 that American Jim Wynne designed the first commercially viable stern drive system and up until that time, other than water jet, it was only possible to have direct shaft drive or an outboard motor. Curious that exactly 50 years after Wynne’ s collaboration with Volvo, another ...
-
NewsEuropean Tugowners Association meets in Lisbon
From 13 to 15 May the European Tugowners Association held its 46th Annual General Meeting in Lisbon, hosted by its member company Svitzer Group.
-
NewsPiggyback delivery for Malaysia tug newbuild
A punchy new Malaysian built anchor handling tug and a Singapore built ocean going pontoon have been sent from Asia to northern Europe as deck cargo on another ship also newly built for European shipowners.
-
NewsRAL influence continues to spread
Barely a month goes by without news of more tugs being completed to designs from the Vancouver based design team of Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) naval architects. Among those designs are those that are now well established and others that are quickly gaining favour in various sectors of the towage ...
-
NewsA tough new RAstar 3200 is delivered to Mexico
A recent design by Robert Allan Ltd is the new RAstar, a powerful ASD tug introduced to meet the stringent requirements of gas and oil terminal operators. The first examples of this design were delivered to Svitzer in 2008 to operate at the new Milford Haven LNG facilities in the ...
-
NewsA Versatile push tug design for German owners
A new versatile pusher tug has been delivered to German operators Hans Schramm & Sohn GmbH of Brunsbuttle. Named Christian, the tug is the second vessel of its type to be built to a new design by Nav-Consult Maritime Engineering and Consulting, a Schramm associate company.
-
NewsKlyne Tugs appoint new MD
Capt Mark Nicholson, operations director of J P Knight (Caledonian) Limited, took up the appointment of managing director of Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Limited on 25 May. He will have responsibility for the operation and management of the company and will work from the Lowestoft office.
-
NewsAuto-Position Escort Winch System
The safety and effectiveness of escort tugs operating in the indirect towing mode is a matter of concern to many owners and designers. When operating in this way the tug’ s towline is made secure on the stern of the ship being escorted and uses the dynamic properties of the ...
-
NewsSterntube systems strong after 204,000 hours
During the February 2009 drydocking of the in 1981 built pushboat Veerhaven V, it was discovered that the vessel has logged over 204,000 running hours on two of its three closed water lubricated sterntube systems without ever changing its propeller shaft bearings, shafts or shaft sleeves.
