Tugs & Salvage – Page 65
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NewsFour sets of deck equipment delivered
America based manufacturer JonRie has delivered four ship sets of deck equipment to Seabulk Towing.
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NewsPOSH and TeraSea form a powerful alliance
A newly formed joint venture entitled ‘POSH TeraSea’ has resulted in world’s largest and youngest tug fleet of vessels for ocean towage services.
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NewsTOWLINES
Among a number of the recent high profile tows carried out recently by Fairmount Marine of Rotterdam was the delivery of the 156,907 dwt container ship Emma Maersk from the Suez Canal Container Terminal in Egypt to Fincantieri’s repair yard in Palermo, Sicily. The 398m long Emma Maersk was disabled ...
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NewsDamen delivers Ice class ASDs to Ukraine
Damen Shipyards has delivered two ‘Ice class’ variants of their increasingly popular ASD Tug 3212 shiphandling tug to the Ukrainian State Enterprise – Mariupol Sea Commercial Port.
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NewsMacduff tug designs grow in popularity
Over the past year or so substantial orders have been secured for tugs, workboats and other craft to be built to designs from Scotland based naval architects and marine consultants, Macduff Ship Design.
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NewsKOTUG news from Australia and the UK
Teekay Shipping - Australia has chartered three more high powered Rotor Tugs from KOTUG International to boost maritime services for the mining industry in Western Australia''s North-West region.
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NewsStatesman joins the SMS fleet
British tugowner SMS Towage Ltd, with headquarters in Hessle on Humberside, has recently purchased the former Ulupinar 14 from Sanmar, the Turkish tugowners and shipbuilders.
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NewsMacleod a unique ‘dual-draft’ ASD
Over the past few months a variety of RAmparts 3000 series of ASD tug designs by Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) has been described in these pages.
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NewsA brief look at Aiviq
The world’s media focused on Alaska at the beginning of the year when the Royal Dutch Shell ‘Arctic’-class drilling unit Kulluk was driven aground by violent weather on the southeast shoreline of nearby Sitkalidak Island on December 31, 2012.
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NewsSL Gabon, an important delivery for Smit Lamnalco
During the last few days of December 2012 the new SL Gabon sailed from the Damen Shipyard in Galati, Romania, bound for Port Gentil in Gabon.
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NewsBommel joins the expanding fleet of Herman Sr
The Zwijndrecht based tugowners and marine contractors Holding Herman Sr BV has been transformed over the past few months from the original family firm to become a major player in the marine civil engineering and dredging industries.
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NewsKootenay - compact and agile
Kootenay, an extremely powerful, agile and innovative ‘compact’ ASD tug of only 19.6m in length has entered service in British Columbia.
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NewsA busy time for Sanmar
In spite of the difficult economic conditions, Turkey’s tug builder Sanmar is extremely busy - writes Jack Gaston.
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NewsTOWLINES
Svendborg Bugser A/S of Svendborg, Denmark, has sold its coastal and deepsea tug Eurosund. Originally built by Richard Dunston at Hessle in 1979 as the Formidable, it is a 35m twin screw vessel, powered by two Ruston 8RK main engines of 3,520 bhp (total) to achieve a bollard pull of ...
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NewsArmon deliver two high performance escort tugs
Izbaizabal Diez and Izbaizabal Once, two high performance Voith escort tugs, have been delivered to the Spanish tug company Compania de Remolcadores Ibaizabal SA.
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NewsArmon also launch the first Hereema anchorhandler
The Astilleros Armon shipyard in Vigo has launched Bylgia, the first of two ‘state of the art’ anchorhandling tugs ordered by the Dutch contractor Hereema Marine Services.
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NewsWilson Sons to build a dozen Damen ASD tugs
Wilson Sons (Brazil) has signed a contract with the Damen Shipyards Group for ten Damen ASD Tugs 2411 and two of the new ASD Tugs 3212 design, destined for the booming Brazilian market.
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NewsSignet continues US Gulf Coast expansion
The Signet Maritime Corporation, based in Mississippi USA, continues to expand its diverse fleet by awarding yet another contract for the construction of two Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) designed tugs to Patti Marine Enterprises Inc of Pensacola, Florida.
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And 14 Damen ASDs for Kuwait
Damen and the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) have signed a contract for fourteen ASD Tugs.
