Tugs & Salvage

The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has awarded a new short term contract with J P Knight (Lowestoft) Ltd to enable the Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) Anglian Sovereign and Anglian Monarch…

After a long and anxious wait, the Icelandic ‘Landhelgisgaeslan’ (Coastal Guard) (LHG) has taken delivery of its new multipurpose offshore patrol vessel Thor.

Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld has signed a contract with Iskes Towage & Salvage of Ijmuiden and Offshore Ship Designers (OSD) to construct two ‘Green’ tugs.

In October of last year Cheoy Lee Shipyards handed over the first of a series of four powerful terminal support tugs to Hong Kong United Dockyards.

News regarding the use and construction of new Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) designed tugs of the ‘RAmparts’ class and its various derivatives is coming in thick and fast.

Following an agreement between St.Lucia Air & Seaports Authority and Resolve Salvage & Fire, Resolve has refloated the sunken container vessel Angeln then scuttled the vessel at a deep water reefing site.

Fairmount Marine’s tug Fairmount Alpine has successfully assisted in the refloating of the grounded MV Ikan Sepat just offshore Puerto Cortés, Honduras. The salvage operation was directed by T&T Bisso Salvage.

Macduff Ship Design has been awarded a contract to provide a design package for a new 23m harbour tug to be built by Torgem Shipbuilding Ind & Trade AS, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey.

The Panama Canal Authority has awarded a $158.3m contract to Spanish shipbuilders Astilleros Armon S.A. for the construction of 14 new tugs needed to handle the increase in traffic predicted when the…

The Damen ASD Tug 2009 is the smallest azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug ever produced by Damen.