Tugs & Salvage

Over the past two decades the towage industry has seen phenomenal changes in almost every sector and every aspect of the business. The industry has a history traceable with some accuracy to…

One problem for any journalist specialising in the towage business at present is how to present any news feature without giving the impression that it is a Robert Allan newsletter. The Canadian…

J P Knight (Caledonian) Ltd has taken delivery of all three of their recent purchases from Japan. Based in Invergordon, the company now operates a four tug fleet comprising the original purpose…

URS, the Belgian Towage and Salvage Union has added two new tugs to its fleet in the Port of Antwerp. Named ' Union Grizzly' and ' Union Kodiak' , the tugs were…

United States tug operator TUGZ International, LLC, well known as owner and charterer of the 4,000 hp multipurpose ‘ Z class’ series of ASD tugs operating in a number of US ports,…

Hamburg based Fairplay Towage has sold its deepsea tug ' Fairplay XIV' to Greece. The tug is well known throughout the towage industry, having worked reliably and economically worldwide, with its running…

IrvingShipbuilding Inc of Canada has announced a contract to build a series of threeescort tugs for Atlantic Reyser to carry out LNG terminal operations.

from theyard of Metaaldraaierij Sepers BV at Druemel in the Netherlands was complicatedby the fact that there is no slipway at the facility. 

Third quarter activities by Svitzer Salvage includedresponses to a number of vessel groundings, including the Explorer, which ranaground on rocks near the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland.The tug Svitzer Maillaigwas mobilised to…

Dutch salvage and towagecompany Multraship successfully refloated the 5,744gt general cargo ship AlShaymaa this summer afterthe Egyptian flagged vessel capsized in the southern Netherlands port ofMoerdijk while discharging a cargo of steel…