Tugs & Salvage

Fairmount Expedition and Fairmount Glacier, two modern deepsea tugs from the fleet of Fairmount Marine, have been chartered by the French Government and dispatched to Brazil to participate in the search for…

The appearance of the twin screw tug SD Jupiter at Seawork was noteworthy for a number of reasons. Jupiter is the last of three almost identical tugs to be delivered by Damen…

In spite of decades of experience and improvements to conventional screw powered tugs, reports of vessels being capsized while towing still occur with depressing regularity. Two such incidents occurred within days of…

Smit Panther, the first example of Damen’ s new ASD Tug 3213 design, is en route to its homeport of Rotterdam. The tug is one of a series of four powerful terminal…

Tugnology 09, held in Amsterdam on 19 -21 May, has been proclaimed a great success by the delegates, exhibitors and organisers alike. This was only the second conference of its kind, devoted…

From 13 to 15 May the European Tugowners Association held its 46th Annual General Meeting in Lisbon, hosted by its member company Svitzer Group.

KBV003, the third of a trio of sophisticated emergency response vessels ordered from Damen Shipyards by the Swedish Coastguard, was launched on 18 May at the Galatz yard in Romania (see Maritime…

A punchy new Malaysian built anchor handling tug and a Singapore built ocean going pontoon have been sent from Asia to northern Europe as deck cargo on another ship also newly built…

Barely a month goes by without news of more tugs being completed to designs from the Vancouver based design team of Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) naval architects. Among those designs are those…

A recent design by Robert Allan Ltd is the new RAstar, a powerful ASD tug introduced to meet the stringent requirements of gas and oil terminal operators. The first examples of this…