Tugs & Salvage – Page 97
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Multraship Completes Salvage of Toxic Containers
Netherlands-based Multraship Salvage has successfully completed an operation to recover three containers loaded with toxic cargo lost overboard in the North Sea from the Ethiopian vessel Andinet . The operation to recover the containers, which were lost twenty miles north of the Dutch coast, off Texel, on 21 December 2003, ...
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NewsNew Ccean Going Tugs Enter Service with Semco
Singapore based Semco Salvage & Marine has announced the delivery of two new 13,500bhp ocean-going salvage tugs.
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NewsWijsmuller Salvage in Syria
A Wijsmuller Salvage team is removing bunkers from a Liberian flag ro-ro aground at the Syrian port of Tartous.
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NewsTwin Tows Top Fairmount's 2003
Rotterdam based Fairmount Marine successfully completed major ocean towage and heavy transportation projects in the final weeks of 2003.
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NewsTitan Pullers Release the 'Bowstring'
Titan Maritime, LLC were called upon when the abandoned research vessel M/V Bowstring sank at a pier adjacent to the Matthews Bridge at Jacksonville, Florida USA and came to rest on rocks listing to port in 16ft of water.
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NewsMultraship Advance on Several Fronts
In recent months there has been a rash of reports regarding new initiatives from the Ternuezen based company Multraship Towage & Salvage , all based on improving services and increasing the company''s market share.
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NewsVoith Offer a New Low Cost Shiphandling Concept
German propulsion and tractor tug specialists, Voith Schiffstechnik Gmbh (Marine Technology) continue to pursue their share of the market for shiphandling tractor tugs by offering a new low cost solution. This latest solution, offered to operators requiring an agile, vessel with a useful bollard pull, capable of working in the ...
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NewsSanmar Expand Towage and Tugbuilding Activities
Sanmar Ltd of Istanbul, Turkey, has reported a very successful 2003 for both aspects of their business - tug operation and the construction of new vessels. Seven new tugs were delivered last year and three others currently under construction will be completed before the end of the first quarter of ...
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NewsAdsteam Takes Delivery of Barunga - the First ASD 2411
Adsteam Marine Ltd has taken delivery of the first vessel built to the new Damen ASD 2411 design. Named Barunga , the tug was completed in China by Damen''s Changde shipyard and is expected to enter service in Australia at the end of this month.
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NewsDamen Build Terminal Tugs for Sonasurf
An important recent delivery from Damen Shipyards Gorinchem yard was a series of three terminal tugs for the French company Sonasurf , for use in Angola. Completed in July, August and November, the vessels were named Kakulo , Nemed and Aeger, respectively. This latest trio follows three almost identical tugs ...
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NewsNew Carrousel Tug Design is Offered by Novatug
Novatug , a Rotterdam-based company formed to develop and market the unique Carrousel towing system, has launched a new Compact Carrousel tug design. This follows the successful completion of trials with the promised winch system.
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KOTUG Strengthen the Management team
Kotug International BV , operator of harbour towage services in Rotterdam Hamburg and Bremerhaven, has announced the appointment of two additions to their management team. Mr Dorus Knegtel, is appointed a Director of the company to be responsible for strategic issues, business development, quality and safety. Mr Kommer Tanis was ...
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NewsRolls Royce Designs and Equipment for Coastguard ETVs
Two important orders have been placed very recently for Government funded Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs). Both France and Norway are to have sophisticated vessels built and operated under commercial contracts. The designs selected for the new contracts, one new ship for Norway and two for France, are from the design ...
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NewsLong Awaited 'Thetis' is Delivered
Iskes Towage & Salvage BV ofIjmuiden has taken delivery of the new azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug Thetis , after a somewhat protracted wait. This vessel, built by the IHC Delta Shipyard at Sliedrecht and known as a Delta Azimuth Tug 2800 , is the first ASD shiphandling tug to ...
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Dutch Owners go for the 'New Generation' Shoalbuster
Two well-known independent Dutch tug operators have ordered vessels to the new Damen improved design Shoalbuster 2609 design. The new version will retain all of the features that have made this shallow draft twin screw tug so popular with owners working in the dredging and marine civil engineering industries but ...
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NewsA New Tug Fleet at Marchwood
There is a growing use of scale model tugs to aid training and simulation in shiphandling and pilotage. Southampton Institute has recently added a tug to their inventory at the Manned Model Shiphandling Facility at Marchwood. The unmanned radio controlled scale model of an ASD tug is fully functional with ...
