Tugs & Salvage

Much has been written in Tugs & Towing over the years on the subject of the Damen Shoalbuster shallow draft multipurpose tug and its development.

One of America’s major towage organisations, the Foss Maritime Company, unveiled its second true ‘Hybrid’ tug at an event held on 20 September at the company’s Rainier shipyard in Oregon.

The anchorhandling twin screw tug Primus, built in 2004 by Mutzelfeldtwerft GmbH Cuxhaven, has recently been placed under the management of Unterweser Reederei GmbH Bremen (URAG). Owned by Primus GmbH & C0…

Tug Malta, the only company licensed for towage operations in Malta, is having a Royston enginei fuel consumption monitoring system fitted to its newest tug.

Associated British Ports has successfully transported two large Liebherr mobile harbour cranes from TransAtlantic’s Aldam Terminal in Goole to Hull by barge

Following the great success of the two previous Tugnology conferences, delegates are eagerly awaiting Tugnology ‘11, to be held in the Antwerp Hilton on 17 and 18 May.

International Transport Contractors (ITC), a member of the Tschudi Group, based in the Netherlands has sold two of their traditional ‘S-Wind’ class ocean going deepsea tugs.

Italian tug owners Ocean Srl have purchased the Voith tractor tug Bremen from the fleet of German operators Unterweser Reederi AG (URAG) of Bremerhaven. The tug had been employed for some time…

During the morning of Friday 12 August, the tug Chiefton capsized and sank on the river Thames while towing the crane barge Skyline near Convoys Wharf, a short distance from Greenwich Pier.

Dutch towage contractor ITC has sold its last two ‘S-Wind’ class vessels, Sirocco and Sumatras, just a few months after announcing the sale of the Simoon and Suhaili. (See MJ May 2011)