Tugs & Salvage

The well established Shoft Shipyard in Bharuch, Gujarat, India has delivered the new ASD tug GMB 3 to the the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB).

Competition in the ship handling market is and always has been extremely fierce.

Sanmar, the Turkish shipbuilder and tug owner, has introduced yet another new tug to their design portfolio.

Terasea Pte Ltd of Singapore, part of the POSH Terasea consortium, has taken delivery of the Terasea Eagle, the third anchorhandler in a series of four identical vessels to be built by…

In the past few weeks six new tugs have been completed, all to designs by Macduff Ship Design Ltd.

At the Annual General Meeting of the International Salvage Union (ISU) in Hong Kong on 24 October, Captain Leendert Muller became the organisation’s new president.

A ceremony was held by Seacontractors on 23 October to have Sea Hotel, their latest new Shoalbuster 2709, named by sponsor lady Mrs. Marieke Regoor. The event was held in Dubai Festival…

Early in October, tug builders Sanmar held a massive event to name the world’s first LNG fuelled tug, Borgoy, built for Norwegian tug owners Bukser og Bergings AS (B&B).

Sanmar also have three other vessels under construction for Bukser og Bergings AS (B&B), each of a different type.

Construction has started on the first example of the unique ‘Efficient Double-ended DYnamic’ (EDDY) tug and workboat series, mentioned previously in Tugs & Towing (May 2012).