Tugs & Salvage

Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyard has completed a five-vessel tug order for Smit Lamnalco for operation at three LNG export terminals at the Port of Gladstone on Australia’s east coast.

Svitzer’s connection with Damen’s products is mentioned elsewhere in this column and while being written it was announced that the UK arm of Svitzer are to take delivery of two Damen ASD…

The increasingly popular biennial Tugnology conference was held London for the second time. Tugnology 15 was convened on the 18 & 19th of May at the Lancaster Hotel, located in London’s ‘West…

Piraeus based Tsavliris Salvage have reported on a busy first three months to the year responding to incidents ranging from on-going assistance to a sunken dredger to providing rescue towage services.

Buenos Aires based shipyard Astilleros Unidelta SA are currently building an ASD shiphandling tug with the potential to attract local interest from a market familiar with European products.

Rotterdam based towage service provider Kotug has been active in the business of fleet expansion recently and now have two new tractor tugs for operation within their European harbour towage division.

The Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks, 2007 came into force recently placing strict liability on owners including provision of financial security and providing State Parties with extra rights.

Three tugs from GPS Marine recently towed the historic paddle steamer ‘Tattershall Castle’ upriver from Tilbury through the London bridges to its berth at Victoria Embankment following a refit at Hull.

The crew of two Crowley Maritime Corporation tugs have been honoured by the United States Coast Guard for their part in the emergency rescue tow of the drill barge Kulluk off Kodiak…