Tugs & Salvage

The latest addition to the Kotug fleet, the Rotor Tug RT Peter arrived in Rotterdam in mid-April after a very lengthy delivery voyage from the Far East.

The first major transfer of prefabricated blocks (sections) for the new aircraft carrier, ‘HMS Queen Elizabeth’, was completed on 8 April when the barge ‘Osprey Carrier’ arrived in the Firth of Forth,…

The names ‘Herman Sr’, and ‘Tarka’, well known in the dredging and marine civil engineering business. Dutch tugowners Herman Sr BV took delivery of their first Shoalbuster named Tarka from the Damen…

In recent years the Dutch towage specialist ITC applied a strategy to progressively diversify its activities more into offshore support and other similar activities, alongside its traditional core business of deepsea ocean…

Dutch tug owners F J M Hubregte van der Berge have taken delivery of the new anchorhandling tug Dutch Pearl. The new tug was built by Scheepswerf Gebr Kooiman of Zwijndrecht and…

SMIT Salvage expertise was in strong demand during the final quarter of 2009 and the opening weeks of 2010. The assignments included a number of ‘rescue tows’, successfully confronting emergencies which could…

Antwerp based towage organisation URS, a subsidiary of Smit International, is in the process of introducing a new class of four anchorhandling tugs for their offshore fleet.

The Acta Marine Group, based in the Netherlands at Den Helder, has recently taken several significant steps to consolidate and modernise their growing organisation.

Italian tugowner Rimorchiatori Napoli of Naples has taken delivery of Cheradi, the first of a new RAstar 2700 class, a design intended to take the concept of the compact tug to a…

In the early hours of 19 March, Shetland Coastguard tasked the Emergency Towing Vessel ‘Anglian Sovereign’ to go to the assistance of the general cargo ship ‘Wilson Dover’, disabled with steering problems…