Vessels News – Page 200
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NewsKooren Announces Orders for 'Rotor Tugs'
Rotterdam based Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading BV has ordered two RT-60 class ''Rotor Tugs'' to be built at ASLShipyard Pte Ltd in Singapore.
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Armon to Build New Spanish Emergency Towing Vessels
Spain''s maritime rescue authority, Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Maritima (Sasemar), has placed an order valued at ? 29.5m with Vigo-based shipyard Astilleros Armon for two salvage tugs. The vessels will be 56m long, with a beam of 15m, and equipped to carry out the duties of Emergency Towing Vessels ...
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NewsNew Tugs for Svitzer Roll off the Production Line
A year ago Svitzer-Wijsmuller , the giant towage and salvage operator and part of the AP Moller Group , announced a massive new building programme that included approximately 30 vessels, the majority of them tugs. A number of vessels were already under construction and several tugs have now been completed, ...
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NewsNew Genset Extends Perkins Sabre Range
With the introduction of the new 415GM genset engine, Perkins Sabre now offers seven genset engines with net engine power outputs spanning from 13.5kWm to 161kWm.
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NewsCombi Drive Launch Crowns Record Year
With power ratings of up to 6,000kW, Schottel Rudderpropellers (SRP) have proven themselves worldwide for over five decades as mechanical azimuth drives for all sectors of the shipping world and the offshore industry.
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Complete Power packages for Ukraine Tugs
Volvo Penta has delivered 34 diesel engines for tugboat installations in the Ukraine since May of 2001. The latest delivery to this increasingly important market was for the tug 814 Bakai, launched last November from one of Europe''s largest shipyards, Chernomorskiy Shipbuilding at Nikolaev.
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Mounting a Challenge to Movement
Trelleborg Industrial AVS has designed a new mounting system to eliminate excessive engine movements in a fleet of twin-engined multi-hulls operated by City Cruises plc on the River Thames in London.
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MTU Power for Fast Ferry
The new fast ferry for Spanish operator Fred Olsen will be driven by four 20V 8000 engines from MTU Friedrichshafen. The 126m long trimaran will be built at the Austal shipyard in Australia for delivery in the second half of this year.
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NewsTowlines
Well-known propulsion system and component suppliers the Kort PropulsionCompany Ltd and associate Causeway Machinery Ltd have recently relocated to Erith in Kent. First established in 1935, the company has operated from an office in Witham, Essex for the past 15 years. Directors Norman Parsons and Malcolm Breeze have worked together ...
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NewsAn Eleventh Hour Reprieve for the 'Daniel Adamson'
An historic steam tug/tender, the Daniel Adamson , owned by the Manchester Ship Canal Company has been saved from the cutting torch by tugmen and enthusiasts at the eleventh hour.
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NewsFairmount to Build New Deepsea Tugs
Valentine''s Day, 14 February 2004, was a landmark date for Rotterdam based towage contractor Fairmount Marine BV when the company signed a contract for the construction of two 200 tonnes bollard pull anchor-handling tugs.
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NewsA Sophisticated New Escort Tug Enters Service in Norway
Baut , a new escort tug for Bukser og Berging A/S (a subsidiary of Neptun A/S ) is now in service at Statoil ''sMongstad oil terminal in Norway.
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Bugsier Order Tractor Tug from K Damen Shipyard
The year 2004 started extremely well for Shipyard K Damen at Hardinxveld-Giessendam. During the past couple of months three shipbuilding contracts were signed from two different continents.
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NewsFurther Addition to Klyne Fleet
There is news of an important new addition to the fleet of Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd .Late last year the company purchased the anchor-handling tug Maersk Logger from AP Moller - Maersk Supply Service A/S .This has been a particularly significant acquisition for the company, who have a long-term contract ...
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International Tug & Salvage Returns to the United States
Plans are now well advanced for the 18th International Tug & Salvage Convention & Exhibition , being held at the Bal Harbour Beach Resort in Miami from 26-30 April 2004.
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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.
