Tugs & Salvage

Maritime service provider KOTUG International, with offices in Rotterdam, Hamburg and Bremerhaven, has recently patented the towing ring KO-LINK, originally developed by the company for its own use.

The training of tug crews is becoming a matter of crucial importance, particularly for companies operating shiphandling tugs.

When the Tarka 3, a Damen Shoalbuster 2709, was delivered to its owners Herman Sr BV in April 2010 it replaced an earlier, less powerful tug bearing the name Tarka which was…

The annual ‘Tugworld Review 2010’, produced by the ABR Company Ltd in association with International Tug & Salvage, was published at the beginning of the year.

Offshore Ship Designers (OSD), with headquarters in the Netherlands at Ijmuiden, is to design a new compact but powerful offshore anchorhandling tug/support vessel for the Dutch operator Neptune Marine Services BV.

HvS Dredging Support BV, of Harlingen in the Netherlands, has announced that in addition to its current support vessel Zwerver I, a new unique multi-purpose DP-1 support vessel is to be built,…

The Marine and Towage Services Group Ltd (MTS), based in the south west of England, has made three additions to its growing fleet in just a few weeks.

An act of piracy involving a tug and barge in Malaysian waters has led to a director of the tug owning company appealing to the towage industry and brokers worldwide for help.…

The installation of fire fighting equipment aboard harbour tugs is commonplace but the capacity of those installations rarely exceeds that necessary to comply with classification society Fi-Fi 1 notation, with a total…

It is just twelve years since Dutch towage company Kotug introduced a series of four ‘Rotor Tugs’ to the ports of Rotterdam and Bremerhaven.