Tugs & Salvage

The tug Fairmount Sherpa, operated by Rotterdam based Fairmount Marine, has safely delivered the rig GSF Arctic I in Las Palmas, having been towed from off Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

America based manufacturer JonRie has delivered four ship sets of deck equipment to Seabulk Towing.

A newly formed joint venture entitled ‘POSH TeraSea’ has resulted in world’s largest and youngest tug fleet of vessels for ocean towage services.

Damen Shipyards has delivered two ‘Ice class’ variants of their increasingly popular ASD Tug 3212 shiphandling tug to the Ukrainian State Enterprise – Mariupol Sea Commercial Port.

Among a number of the recent high profile tows carried out recently by Fairmount Marine of Rotterdam was the delivery of the 156,907 dwt container ship Emma Maersk from the Suez Canal…

Over the past year or so substantial orders have been secured for tugs, workboats and other craft to be built to designs from Scotland based naval architects and marine consultants, Macduff Ship…

Teekay Shipping - Australia has chartered three more high powered Rotor Tugs from KOTUG International to boost maritime services for the mining industry in Western Australias North-West region.

Over the past few months a variety of RAmparts 3000 series of ASD tug designs by Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) has been described in these pages.

During the last few days of December 2012 the new SL Gabon sailed from the Damen Shipyard in Galati, Romania, bound for Port Gentil in Gabon.

The world’s media focused on Alaska at the beginning of the year when the Royal Dutch Shell ‘Arctic’-class drilling unit Kulluk was driven aground by violent weather on the southeast shoreline of…