Tugs & Salvage

Svitzer Tugs is expanding fuel efficiencies throughout its fleet by fitting Enginei fuel monitoring systems from Royston Limited.

Fairmount Marine’s powerful deepsea tugs Fairmount Sherpa and Fairmount Summit have returned to their homeport of Rotterdam after successfully completing the delivery of the FPSO Skarv Idun from South Korea to Stord…

Kees Muller, the founder of the Dutch towage and salvage specialist Multraship, has received a knighthood from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Damen Shipyards is close to completing a series of four powerful terminal tugs for the Lamnalco Group.

Rotterdam based SMIT Salvage had teams busy in Latin America last year, refloating a series of grounded vessels in the major river systems.

Back in the November 2010 issue of MJ ‘Tugs & Towing’ included a report on the delivery of the Voith tractor tug Vortex to Solent Towage Ltd, the UK subsidiary of Østensjø…

Avra Towage BV of Rotterdam and Muller of Dordrecht have formed a joint venture with a view to increasing the scope of both companies. Muller operates a fleet of nine tugs and…

UK based Marine and Towage Services provider the MTS Group Ltd has acquired the twin-screw seagoing tug Multratug 7.

Hamburg based Fairplay Towage has sold Fairplay IX, its last traditional deepsea tug to a Greek operator.

Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord BV has purchased the fleet of four Damen Pushbusters formerly operated by Damen Marine Contractors (DMS).