Tugs & Salvage

Terasea Falcon, the first of a quartet of ‘groundbreaking’ deepsea tugs, is now in service under the management of the new joint venture company POSH Terasea (MJ – Mar 2013).

Busy Hong Kong shipbuilder Cheoy Lee reports the delivery of three vessels in the third week of April.

The ‘Report on Safe Tug Procedures’ has now been published and is widely available to all those involved in the operation of tugs during shiphandling manoeuvres.

Ocean Sun, one of the two remaining Ocean class tugs being built for Crowley Maritime, was delivered on 9 May by Bollinger Marine Fabricators. The remaining vessel, Ocean Sky, is undergoing trials…

The Pilbara Apollo, the latest addition to the RAstar 3200 series of escort tugs, was one of several new tugs heading for employment in Australia over recent months.

Lomax, a high specification ASD fire fighting terminal tug has entered service with Solent Towage Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Norwegian operator Østensjø Rederi.

The biennial Tugnology 13 conference was held this year in the heart of London’s Docklands at the Britannia International Hotel on 14 and 15 May.

Duke II, a rugged and powerful twin screw anchorhandling tug has recently been completed by Shipyard Gebr Kooiman in the Netherlands at Zwijndrecht.

Sanmar, Turkeys leading pioneering tug building specialist, reports that its contract to deliver the worlds first Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) powered escort tugs for Bukser og Berging AS (B&B) of Norway, is…

On 2 May 2013 the Dutch company Seacontractors based in Flushing signed a contract with Damen Shipyards for two new Shoalbuster 2709 tugs of 40 tonnes bollard pull. Seacontractors already has an…