Tugs & Salvage

The big rescue tug Nan Hai Jiu 101, operated by the China Rescue and Salvage Bureau (CRS), travelled to Singapore specifically to attend ITS 2008. A restricted number of delegates, including your…

Visitors to Seawork 2008 were able to see for themselves the first tug/workboat to be fitted with the unique Mampaey ‘ Dynamic Towing System’ (DOT) and to watch a demonstration of the…

On 3 June Kotug formally christened the SD Shark and SD Stingray, the first two vessels in a quartet of four new tugs built in Turkey. Both vessels are now in service…

Another Dutch operator to introduce a Turkish built tug in recent weeks is Terneuzen based Multraship. The new multipurpose ASD vessel ' Multratug 17 ' was christened on 12 June at a…

The hull for the first of a series of Damen Shipyards ‘ Pushbuster 3511’ pusher tugs ordered by Damen Marine Services for use in the Middle East arrived in the Netherlands in…

The UK based Solent Towage Ltd welcomed another brand new vessel to their Southampton based fleet at the end of April when the high performance Voith escort tug ' Apex' arrived from…

The fleet of Hamburg based Harms Offshore Gmbh continues to grow rapidly, with five powerful new anchor handling tugs put in service in three years and there are more new vessels to…

One of the tug designs most comprehensively covered in these pages is almost certainly the Damen Shoalbuster. This is due mainly to the success and continuing development of this shallow draft vessel…

Two recent additions to the fleet of Scottish marine services provider MarineCo UK Ltd have boosted the company’ s capability and versatility considerably. A particularly interesting acquisition is the tug Marineco Ashanti,…