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Port tugs from Dover Harbour Board have come to the assistance of one tug towing another tug which encountered propulsion problems in the busy shipping lanes of the Dover Straits Separation Scheme.

Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands-based Kooiman Marine Group has received an order for the supply and installation of a 100 tons Delta Pin unit for one of Multraship’s larger tugs.

The independent German competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, has imposed fines amounting to approximately 13m Euros on three harbour towage service providers following an investigation into a cartel agreement.

Wärtsilä Corporation has received the first order for its HY 2 hybrid power modules for a new escort tug to serve the Swedish port of Luleå in the Gulf of Bothnia at…

Existing requirements along with potential expansion at the world’s largest bulk export facility in Australia has led to the award for Kotug’s Australian subsidiary of a contract to operate nine powerful tugs…

Iskes Towage & Salvage has announced a flurry of news concerning expansion at ports in the Portugal, Germany and the Netherlands.

Rotterdam-based Kotug has applied for a patent to use drone technology to reduce the risks for tugs operating in the so-called danger zone when connecting towlines to ships.