Tugs & Salvage

JP Knight (Caledonian) Ltd, the Invergordon based towage business, has been purchased by the Global Energy Group (GEG) in a move by the energy services and fabrication giant to secure towage services…

On 21 February 2014 the UZMAR Shipyard, also known as ‘Workboat and Tug Factory’ of Turkey, announced the delivery of the first two of a series of eight shallow draft river push…

KOTUG International moved its Rotterdam office to a new location on the top floor of the Las Palmas Building at Wilhelminakade 318, 3072 AR on 17 January 2014. The company’s postal address,…

Another New Year delivery was the SL Mbissi, completed by Damen Shipyard Hardinxveldt for Smit Lamnalco Ltd of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Early in the New Year PSA Marine of Singapore, one of the largest owners and operators of harbour tugs in Asia, took delivery of the ASD tugs Rubicon and Righteous.

Harley Marine Services, a leading provider of marine transportation services in the United States, has purchased the prototype training tug BRAtt from Robert Allan Ltd.

The Dutch and Swedish Navies are joining forces to purchase a total of five harbour and seagoing tugs from Damen Shipyards.

Late in 2013, the first of a new series of RAmparts 3500 class ASD tugs was delivered to its owners Tianjin Port, a major port in the northern part of China.

Borgøy, the world’s first tug to be fuelled by liquefied natural gas (LNG), left the Sanmar shipyard in Tuzla on 14 January bound for Norway under its own power.

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Capt Geoff Yell who passed away on 13 December after a long and debilitating illness. Geoff was well known in the…