Tugs & Salvage

The powerful twin screw tug ‘Mustang’ has been sold by Dutch owners Bouwman Towing & Shipping BV to Ippo Marine Ltd of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Damen Shipyards has replaced their famous ‘PushyCat’ with an entirely new vessel for their Stan Tug range.

The first of a series of four new Z-Tech 4500 class tugshas entered service with the United States Navy Pilots operating in Puget Sound, Washington state, USA.

When the deepsea tug ‘Anglian Earl’ returned to service recently, bearing the traditional livery of JP Knight, it marked the completion of an integration process that started in December 2007 with the…

Major US towage and transportation group Crowley has signed a contract with Bollinger Shipyards to build two newly designed ocean-going tugs, with options for additional vessels.

US shipbuilder Washburn & Doughty Associates, Inc. of East Boothbay, Maine has now delivered the ‘Loretta B Moran’ and ‘Catherine C Moran’ to Moran Towing of Lake Charles, LLC.

It’s just a year since the world’s first true ‘Hybrid’ tug entered service with Foss Maritime in the USA. This important milestone created considerable interest in the towage industry and occurred at…

‘Osayame’, the first tug of its type to be built in Cape Town by Damen Shipyards, finally sailed to its homeport in Nigeria in late January.

The popular annual ‘Tugworld Review 2009’ has now been published by the ABR Company Ltd in association with International Tug & Salvage magazine.

The fleet of Sinbad Marine Services received a substantial boost in the New Year with the purchase of the former Norwegian tug ‘Bison’. Formerly owned by Bukser og Berging AS, the vessel…