Tugs & Salvage – Page 82
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News'New Flame' wreck removal reconvenes
With the arrival of calmer springtime weather, Titan Salvage has resumed wreck removal operations in Gibraltar on the New Flame following a busy first quarter in which the company responded to eight salvage opportunities.
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NewsSMIT Salvage teams keep busy
SMIT Salvage teams were busy in the Gulf of Mexico in the final weeks of the first quarter. Work in this region included a Lloyd' s Form salvage, a ship to ship transfer of an oil cargo under emergency conditions and the subsea recovery of pollutants from a sunken rig. ...
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NewsSvitzer modernise their deepsea sister ships
Svitzer Ocean Towage is in the process of modernising all three deepsea tugs (Singapore, Rotterdam and London) taken over from SmitWijs in 2007. The first tug to undergo this important modernisation programme is the Singapore. Work was completed successfully in March and the tug was quickly back in service. Rotterdam ...
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News'Far Samson' breaks bollard pull records
Farstad Shipping of Norway has put into service ‘ Far Samson’ , the most powerful offshore vessel in the world in terms of bollard pull.
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NewsA Beegle's eye view
US based shipbrokers Marcon International is well known worldwide for its special interest in tugs and barges. Although its business is very much orientated towards the American market, Marcon maintains a massive database of tugs and towage activity worldwide and its comprehensive and widely distributed Newsletters have become legendary.
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NewsTowlines - May 2009
The Panama Canal Authority has introduced a further five new Z-Tech tugs to its fleet of dedicated tugs used to assist ships transiting the waterway.
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NewsDamen deliver first Emergency Response Vessel to Sweden
Damen Shipyards has delivered the first of three multi-functional patrol and emergency response vessels to the Swedish Coastguard – Kustbevakning. Named simply KBV001, the construction of the vessel and its two sister ships was project managed by the Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding division and construction entrusted to the Damen Galatz ...
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NewsMore Towlines
JP Knight (Caledonian) Ltd of Invergordon has sold the 31m ASD tug Kincraig. Purpose built in Japan in 1998, Kincraig has been in constant use carrying out shiphandling services at Invergordon and under contracts in many other ports around the UK and Europe, in addition to coastal and short sea ...
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NewsSanmar are busy with deliveries
Over the past month or so the Turkish tug owner and tug builder Sanmar Denizcilik Ltd of Istanbul has been exceptionally busy with the trials and delivery of new tugs. One of the most noteworthy completions is that of the very first vessel to be built to the new ‘ ...
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NewsA success story for Damen and Smit
When Damen Shipyards at Gorinchem in the Netherlands first introduced their series built Damen ASD Tug 2810 in 2004 it was recognised by many as a harbour tug with some potential but now, some five years later, it can be considered a ‘ success’ story! During those few years over ...
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NewsSmit increases its market share in Canada
In mid March Smit International signed an agreement to acquire all of the shares in the Minette Bay Ship Docking Ltd in Prince Rupert, Canada. The tug company operates a three tug fleet in the increasingly busy port of Prince Rupert and provided ship docking services at the Ridley Island ...
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NewsNew Robert Allan Voith Tractor is delivered to Saudi Arabia
Ansar 20, a Voith tractor built to a new design from Robert Allan Ltd for service in Saudi Arabia was delivered recently to Bakri Navigation.
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News'ITC Meltemi' is delivered in Amsterdam
On 23 January 2009, ITC (International Transport Contractors) formally took delivery of its second new Damen Shoalbuster 2609 at a ceremony in central Amsterdam.
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NewsSix more tugs for fast growing Smit Rebras
One of the most rapidly developing tug fleets in the world is that of Brazilian company Smit Rebras, a joint venture company formed by Smit and a Brazilian partner in March 2006.
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NewsGerman ETV projects gather speed
In the November issue of Maritime Journal it was reported that the German Government had signed contracts to fund two new Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) to replace the two existing tugs currently on station in the North Sea and the Baltic.
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NewsTowlines March
Due to a production problem, the wrong Towlines were published in the March MJ. We publish an extended Towlines in this issue to compensate.
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NewsFoss Unveils 'Carolyn Dorothy'
The world''s first true hybrid tug, built by Foss Maritime, was welcomed to Southern California at a high profile event at the Port of Long Beach attended by around 300 VIPs on 23 January.
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NewsSanmar deliver 'Chieftan' to Martinique
Turkish tug builders Sanmar Denizcilik Makine ve Ticaret Ltd of Istanbul has delivered a ''Dogancay'' twin screw tug to Somara (Société Martiniquaise de Remorquage et d''Assistance) in Fort de France, Martinique. Named Chieftan, this is the nineteenth Dogancay class vessel produced by Sanmar since the design was first introduced a ...
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News'Anglian Earl' delivers 'Clemenceau'
Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd has delivered the former French aircraft carrier Clemenceau to be broken up by the Able UK TERRC (Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling Centre) facility at Able Seaton Port on the River Tees. The operation was a high profile, well planned commercial towage operation undertaken by the ...
