Tugs & Salvage

The arrival of the new Voith escort tug Tenax has given towage services at the ESSO terminal at Fawley on Southampton Water UK a considerable boost.

Oldendorf Carriers, one the worlds largest private shipping companies, has been awarded a major long term contract for all aspects of transportation of bauxite from Guyana.

Fairplay Towage of Hamburg has taken on bare boat charter the new terminal and offshore anchor handling tug Barents from Bukser og Berging of Oslo.

From the first of this month propulsion specialist Voith Turbo Marine Gmbh & Co will be represented in the UK by Mr Tim Sale of Voith Turbo Ltd based at 6 Beddington…

The fast growing European tugboat company Kotug has taken delivery of the first two of a new series of three identical, powerful ASD tugs from Med Marine in Istanbul, Turkey. Mr Ard-Jan…

Much has been written on the subject of compact tugs employing azimuthing stern drive (ASD) propulsion systems but the requirement for small, powerful and extremely agile shiphandling tugs has not been lost…

One of Europes most sophisticated Fin-first Voith escort tugs has been chartered by Adsteam UK and put into service in the Thames and Medway area during the month of January.

SvitzerWijsmuller BV has achieved a breakthrough in the Australian market for marine casualty response provision with a standby salvage contract from the Department of Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS).

DUTCH salvage and towage company Multraship Salvage BV has successfully refloated the Slovakian pusher-tug Polana, which sank in the River Danube on 19 December last year following a serious fire in its…