TOWLINES
Captain Peter Meyer, a well known and respected figure in the towage and salvage industry, has retired after 40 years with Hamburg based Bugsier Reederei. Peter started with the company as a helmsman onboard the salvage tug Bugsier 27 and progressed to become Captain of many of the company’s tugs, including the impressive deepsea tugs Arctic and Oceanic. He came ashore in1990 and became a Superintendent in Bugsier’s Hamburg office. In this capacity he was responsible for a large number of successful salvage operations and wreck removals. He became a director and the head of Bugsier’s towage and salvage department in 1999. Peter was also active the Arge-Küstenschutz, a German joint venture responsible for operating ETVs in the North Sea and Baltic. He will remain as an advisor to Bugsier Reederei, where Philip Harmstorf will take over as the department’s director.
Macduff Shipyards Limited has announced that a contract has been signed with John McLoughlin & Son (Shipping ) Ltd from Larne in Northern Ireland to build a 16m general purpose harbour tug. This vessel will be a repeat of the Sally McLoughlin, built by the yard for the same company in 2009. The vessel will be constructed to a design by Macduff Ship Design Limited and powered by twin 800bhp Doosan engines. Work on this new order will start later in the year and is a welcome addition to the yard’s existing building programme.
Tug and barge operator Foss Maritime Company of Seattle, USA, is to build three new Arctic Class deep-sea tugs in response to new oil and gas industry opportunities. The vessels’ primary role will be the towage of barges with oil field modules, rig topsides and project cargoes throughout the world. Naval architects Glosten Associates will work with Foss on the vessels, which are expected to achieve a bollard pull of 100 tonnes. Caterpillar C280-8 main engines have been chosen, to comply with the highest environmental standards, along with Reintjes gearboxes and Markey towing winches. Construction of the first tug will start early in 2013 at the Foss’ Rainier shipyard,
Multraship Towage and Salvage of Terneuzen has transferred the Multratug 22 from its fleet in the port of Bourgas on the Black Sea in Bulgaria, to Antwerp. Originally built in 2001 as the Atlas Z for the Bourgas Tug Service, the 20m twin screw vessel is powered by two MTU type MB820-BB diesel engines producing a total of 1,500 bhp, a bollard pull of 22 tonnes and a speed of 10 knots. The vessel was taken over in 2005 when Multraship acquired the business of the Bourgas Tug Service. It is understood that the tug is now operation in the Schelde area.
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