Tugs & Salvage

The Rotterdam based shipping company Rotortug (KST) BV and ASD Ship Design from Alblasserdam have invented a revolutionary device to prevent towline failures on tugs, due to chafing against a fixed ‘staples’…

Members of the European Tugowners Association (ETA) gathered in Turku, Finland, for its 49th Annual Meeting and Conference hosted by Finnish member Alfons Håkans Oy.

At the end of June the first of four new Voith propelled tractor tugs ordered by the Antwerp Port Authority arrived from the Union Naval Valencia (UNV) shipyard in Spain.

Royal Boskalis Westminster NV has announced that its associated company Smit Lamnalco has been awarded a 10 year contract, with additional options for extensions, by Esso Highland (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil) to…

A total of five Damen Shoalbusters have recently been purchased from owners in the Netherlands for use in Australia.

After much discussion and lobbying Government, the UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has placed a contract enabling an Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) to be stationed in Scottish waters until March 2013.

Harley Marine Services is participating in a field follow study of the Cat 3500 United States EPA Tier 3 compliant marine propulsion engines which is scheduled for completion this summer.

Sanmar Marine has enjoyed an expansion of trade at the Port of Mersin on Turkey’s southern coast, where the company secured the harbour towage contract in 2007.