Tugs & Salvage – Page 55
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NewsASDs and quick deliveries keep Damen busy
Damen Shipyards Galati, Romania, has launched the first of 14 new tugs for the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).
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NewsShallow draft Ice class tug 'Liva'
The Latvian freeport of Riga has taken delivery of the new multifunctional harbour tug ''Liva'' from Baltic Workboats located in Nasva Harbour, Estonia.
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NewsKOTUG hosts Canadian delegation
The past few weeks have been a busy time for the management and staff of Rotterdam based towage company KOTUG International.
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NewsDamen delivers in ‘bulk’
Increasingly common terms used by Damen Shipyards are ‘built-for-stock’ and ‘prompt delivery’, particularly with respect to tugs, workboats and offshore plant.
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News'Sea Cypress' - Triple screw, shallow draft
In Europe, triple-screw propulsion systems are rare in tugs, other than large inland waterways pusher tugs. In the USA a triple-screw configuration is also to be found in more conventional tugs used extensively in shallow waters.
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NewsUZMAR launches another ‘Smart’ line handling tug for KOC
On 21st February 2014 the Uzmar Shipyard, also known as ‘Workboat and Tug Factory of Turkey’, held a launching ceremony for the ''KOC Musaned-2'', the second of a total of six line handling tugs ordered by the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).
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News'LARS' visits the Netherlands
A recent visitor to the Port of Rotterdam was the 36m luxury motor yacht ''Lars'', a vessel that started life as the ice class tug ''Zeeleeuw''.
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NewsSix RAmparts 2500 tugs for Smit Rebras
SMIT Rebocadores do Brasil (Rebras) of Rio de Janeiro has taken delivery of the first two, of a series of six RAmparts 2500 tugs designed by Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) and built by Keppel Singmarine Brasil Ltd (KSMB), of Navegantes in Brazil.
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NewsNew tugs for the South African Navy
Tugs are an important part of naval operations and the South African Navy will welcome the recent keel laying ceremony at Damen Shipyards for two new ‘state of the art’ workhorses to replace a pair of ageing vessels currently in service.
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NewsCarmet 25th Anniversary
On 6 March 2014 the Carmet Tug Company Ltd celebrated the 25th anniversary of its management of the shiphandling services on the Manchester Ship Canal.
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NewsSanmar completes another new tug for Bukser
Following hard on the heels of the world’s first LNG fuelled tug, Borgoy, the Norwegian tugowner Buksér og Berging AS has taken delivery of the Baus, a smaller diesel powered ASD tug also from Sanmar’s Tuzla shipyard in Turkey.
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NewsSteady tow to Rotterdam despite weather
The tug Fairmount Glacier has towed the pipelay vessel Castoro Sei to Rotterdam, from where the vessel will start its seasonal activities on the North Sea.
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NewsSuccessful salvage prevents coastal pollution
Keynvor MorLift Ltd (KML) has successfully completed the salvage of the cargo vessel MV Sea Breeze off the coast of Cornwall UK.
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NewsBoskalis takes over Fairmount
After considerable rumours in the towage industry, Royal Boskalis Westminster NV (Boskalis) has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Fairmount Marine BV and the Fairmount OceanTowage Company BV (Fairmount) from the French group Louis Dreyfus Armateurs.
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NewsNew Asterix and Ibex for Solent Towage
Two brand new tug/workboats are now in service with the fleet of Solent Towage Ltd, a subsidiary of Norwegian company Ostenjo Rederi, based at the Fawley Oil Terminal on Southampton Water in the UK.
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NewsOrder for first LNG powered tugs in Asia
Rolls-Royce has won an order from Chinese state oil company CNOOC to power Asia’s first gas powered tugs.
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NewsVoluntary MLC certification for Van Wijngaarden
The tugs and other vessels in the workboat fleet of Netherlands based Van Wijngaarden Marine Services (VWMS) have qualified for the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006 certificate.
