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Italian owner Moby S.p.A. based in Cagliari has taken delivery of the powerful Voith tractor ‘Tommaso Onorato’. The tug was built by the Spanish shipbuilder Union Naval Valencia, a member of the…

The project to produce the world’s first, purpose built training tug took a quantum leap forward in May with the completion of the first prototype and a signed contract to build two…

‘Ginger’, the second of two new tugs to be completed in the Netherlands for Iskes Towage & Salvage, is now in service.

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has issued its report on the capsize and sinking of the Dutch tug ‘Ijsselstroom ‘ at Peterhead in June 2009. The incident, and the resulting…

On 27 April Damen Marine Services took delivery of the new tug ‘DMS Osprey’ and ‘DMS Pelican’, a Multicat 2409. The ‘DMS Osprey’ has a striking resemblance to the ‘Pushbuster’ class of…