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NewsSanmar Spread Their Wings
2005 has been a highly successful year for Turkish tugbuilder and operator Sanmar Denizcilik Ltd. The company, who specialise in building standard tugs based on four different series designs is steadily adding to their customer base, with new clients from around the world, and especially Europe. All four vessels types ...
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NewsSvitzer Replacement Programme Continues Unabated
Over the past two or three years the multi-national towage group Svitzer-Wijsmuller has been undertaking an ongoing fleet replacement programme, intended to update existing tug fleets and ensure that important new towage contracts can be adequately supported.
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NewsChanges Come Thick and Fast at Adsteam
Adsteam Towage has made a succession of recent announcements indicating important moves to reinforce the company''s ongoing commitment to continuous improvement in the delivery of towage services in the UK.
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NewsFour New RT-60 Rotor Tugs are Sold
Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading BV have announced that the first two of their new RT-60 class ''Rotor Tugs'' have now been delivered and a further pair are nearing completion. It has also been revealed that all four have been sold to the new French tug fleet of Societe Nouvelle de ...
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News'Morgan Foss', A Powerful New Compact Tug
Foss Maritime of the USA has taken delivery of the powerful new harbour tug Morgan Foss for service in Pacific Coast ports. Yet another example of the growing popularity of ''compact tugs'', this highpowered vessel is the result of a unique collaboration between Foss and the Canadian based designer Robert ...
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NewsK Damen Complete the First of Three Bugsier Tugs
Dutch builders Shipyard K Damen Europe BV has delivered the first of three virtually identical tractor tugs to Bugsier Reederei und Bergungs-Gesellschaft mbH & Co KG of Hamburg.
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NewsThe Duke of Normandy Demonstrates Its Versatility
Jersey Harbours are making very good use of their new shallow draft, multi-purpose tug, the Duke of Normandy , which was displayed at Seawork 2005 . The first of the new generation of Damen Shoalbuster 2609 tugs to be built for a port authority, its versatility has surprised even its ...
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News'Garibaldo' Visits the UK
A new Azimuthing Stern Drive (ASD) tug, the 38m Garibaldo , attracted considerable interest when it arrived in Britain in September. Owned by Purplewater Towing Ltd ofSwitzerland, registered in London and built in China, the vessel had just completed a barge tow from Singapore to Newcastle on its delivery voyage.
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NewsCrowley Acquires Titan Maritime LLC
In early October the Crowley Maritime Corporation , based in Oakland, California, announced that it has acquired Titan Maritime LLC , a worldwide salvage company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The newly acquired company will be known as Titan and become a wholly owned Crowley subsidiary.
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NewsSMIT Deals with Fire and Groundings
SMIT Salvage BV began the second half of the year with two major Lloyd''s Form salvage operations, involving the container vessel Norasia and the NATO research vessel Alliance .
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NewsPower Surge for Italian Tractor Tug
Following the sale of some 280 units for genset applications and the propulsion of coastal tankers and general cargo vessels, the MAN B&W L21/31 engine design has made its debut in a tractor tug application.
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NewsTsavliris Salvage Keeps Busy
After a busy start to 2005, the Tsavliris Salvage Group hascontinued to be highly active in recent months with a series of further significant LOF salvage operations. The most recent salvage contracts have spanned the world, underlining Tsavliris'' readiness to handle all types of marine casualties.
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NewsBoxship Towed to Rotterdam
The 2,757teu container vessel Fowairet , which suffered hogging damage and hold flooding after running aground on September 20 between Terneuzen and Antwerp with part-hazardous cargo, has been safely towed to Rotterdam by joint salvors Multraship Salvage and URS Salvage and Maritime Contracting .
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'MV Husky' Arrives On Emerald Shore
Ireland''s HydroServe Projects Ltd has taken delivery of the 21m shallow draft multi-purpose vessel MVHusky , which was shipped to Killybegs from the Far East on board the freighter BBC Mexico . The vessel was previously under contract to Shell for gas field support operations and is specially equipped to ...
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NewsSpanish SDMs - a New European Art Form?
Named after the famous Spanish artists, Ramon Casa and Salvador Dali are the first two US designed Ship Docking Modules (SDMs) to have entered service in Barcelona with Spanish towage company Remolques y Servicios Maritimos (REYSER).
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Fairplay Towage and URS Order Tugs from Spain
Hamburg based tug owner Fairplay Towage and their Belgian associate company URS have placed an order for four new tugs with Astilleros Armon in Spain. Two of the vessels, due for delivery in February and August 2007 will be used primarily in Hamburg and Rotterdam and two identical sisters will ...
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Smitwijs Towage Stays in Business
During a recent series of meetings, the shareholders of SmitWijs Towage , comprising Smit International (50%) and Svitzer-Wijsmuller (50%), have reconfirmed their commitment to the ocean towage business and their efforts to remain a market leader in this sector.
