Tugs & Salvage

A detailed and far reaching report on the tragic accident involving the tug Fairplay 22 on 11 November 2010 has been published by the Dutch Safety Board.

In recent months the Signet Maritime Corporation of Houston, Texas USA has taken delivery of three new ASD tugs, all from the drawing boards of Robert Allan Ltd (RAL).

Europe’s first hybrid shiphandling tug RT Adriaan has entered service with the KOTUG fleet in Rotterdam.

KOTUG will shortly be putting three Damen ASD 2810 tugs into operation just two weeks after signing the order.

SMIT Salvage teams had a busy start to 2012 in South America, responding to two casualties in Argentina, both on the Parana River.

Now in its 44th year, the International Tug, Salvage & OSV Convention returns to Spain in 2012 after an absence of 10 years.

The Signet Constellation and Signet Stars & Stripes are the latest development in Robert Allan Ltd’s RAstar series of tugs.

Damen Marine Components (DMC) has developed a pioneering nozzle production method bases on a single weld seam on the inner side of the nozzle.

SMS Towage Limited, based in Hessle on HumbersideUK, has moved into the Bristol Channel with a new subsidiary SMS Towage (Bristol Channel) Ltd and is currently offering towage services in the South…

EL Moundjid, the first of three ‘state of the art’ Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs), has been handed over to the Algerian Government by STX OSV Braatvaag in Norway.