Tugs & Salvage – Page 85
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NewsNew 'RAstar' tugs join Milford Haven tug fleet
Svitzer’ s new tug fleet, being formed to serve the entire needs of the new LNG terminals and existing oil berths at Milford Haven in Wales is rapidly taking shape. Once fully commissioned the fleet will include nine brand new tugs and six new line handling vessels, making it one ...
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NewsBoskalis abandons takeover bid and Smit profits are up
In December Smit International NV announced that Royal Boskalis Westminster NV (‘ Boskalis’ ) will not pursue its intended offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares in Smit International NV.
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US Coastguard crack down on tug operators
United States Coast Guard units along the Gulf Coast, Mississippi River and Western Rivers system have introduced ‘ Operation Big Tow’ , an ongoing initiative to ensure towing vessels are properly manned and crews have proper licensing.
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NewsTOWLINES
The contracting tug Indus has been purchased by the MTS Group in the UKThe Coastguard have been boarding and examining vessels from November and through January to check on crews and certification.Svitzer UK has closed down their associate company Humber Tugs Limited with effect from 31 December 2008. Following a ...
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NewsGrounded Dutch barge refloated off Eemshaven
Netherlands based towage and salvage specialist Multraship successfully refloated the Stema Barge II last month after the 135m vessel had grounded in shallow water inbound to the Dutch port of Eemshaven with a cargo of rocks following the loss of its tow to the tug Hellas on November 16.
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NewsDiversity will keep Lady Loren busy
In America, Louisiana based LA Carriers owner Russel Plaisance put a newbuild tug into operation at the end of last month. The new vessel, named Lady Loren, is the seventh vessel in the LA Carriers fleet and was built at Dickie Adam’ s Lockport Fabrication Inc in the same state.
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NewsPreparing for 'Supership' salvage operations
The advent of Very Large and Ultra Large Crude Carriers in the 1970s represented a step change in vessel size. Much the same can be said of today’ s 14,000 TEU plus super containerships.
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Svitzer are geared up for LNG
The Svitzer tug fleet in the river Medway rose to the challenge on 17 November when the largest Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) tanker yet to berth in Britain arrived at the Isle of Grain LNG import terminal.
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News'Green tugs' will get a substantial boost in 2009
The subject of achieving a true ‘ Green’ tug is one that has been studied and discussed with increasing frequency over the past couple of years and the year 2009 will see the very first tangible result.
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NewsSarawak to the Netherlands
During past months an increasing number of medium sized tugs, many with anchor handling capability, have been arriving in Europe from Malaysian shipyards. A recent delivery is the Venture G, the second of a pair built for the Dutch operator Rederij Groen Offshore Guard & Support of Scheveningen by Sealink ...
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NewsFairmount achieve complete ownership of their five 'super tugs'
Fairmount Marine BV, a member of the Fairmount Group of Companies and wholly owned by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS, has announced that the purchase by and the delivery to the Fairmount Group of all five Fairmount class super tugs has been successfully completed. All five tugs, built originally using finance ...
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NewsGermany to get new ETVs
Germany is to have new Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) to replace two existing tugs currently on station to protect the German coastline in the North Sea and the Baltic.
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NewsFrench harbour fleets receive an eight tug boost
The first six tugs of an eight vessel series have been deployed around the French harbour tug fleets now operated by the Boluda Group. An order was originally placed with the French shipyard Chantier Piriou of Concarneau for the construction of these vessels by Les Abeille, the harbour towage division ...
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NewsMacduff rebrand their new tug and workboat range
In response to increasing enquiries for its tug and workboat designs, Scotland' s Macduff Ship Design has developed several new designs and re-branded its entire range of vessels. Over thirty designs are now being offered and the tug and workboat range has been divided into vessel classes, each bearing the ...
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NewsITS 2008 Singapore - the Papers are available
In recent weeks the ITS 2008 Complete Book of Papers and Discussions has been arriving on the doorsteps and in the offices of many of the representatives from the Towage and Salvage industries that attended the highly successful 20th Tug & Salvage Convention held in Singapore in May of this ...
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NewsTOWLINES
Sinbad Marine Services of Killybegs in Ireland has purchased the Voith tractor tug Carron from the Svitzer fleet in Belfast. Two tugs of the same age, size and horsepower were reported sold in earlier Tugs & Towing reports. Carron was originally built in 1979 for use at the Grangemouth Docks ...
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NewsAntwerp get a new tug company
Following hard on the heels of the news that Fairplay Towage of Hamburg was taking a 50% stake in Belgiums Multraship (Maritime Journal September 2008) the companies have launched a joint project to provide towage services in Antwerp. Formation of the new Antwerp Towage NV is the first new initiative ...
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NewsNew tugs ordered to transport London's refuse
After many years of planning and negotiation the construction of a new waste to energy facility has started at Belvedere in Greater London. The facility will be developed and operated by Riverside Resource Recovery Ltd (RRRL) a wholly owned subsidiary of Cory Environmental. All of the refuse from three major ...
