Tugs & Salvage

VESSELS

VESSELS

This month’s new arrival and order news includes an interesting hybrid “cat-type” workboat from a Dutch shipyard not featuring regularly in the workboat sector.

30th March 2023

Tug delivery and order round-up

30th March 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

The French Préfecture Maritime Manche et Mer du Nord emergency towing vessel Abeille Normandie has attended its first disabled ferry incident since entering service in 2022.

29th March 2023

TOWLINES April 2023

29th March 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Damen has unveiled its solution to what is predicted to be major demand for vessels to install ground tackle following increasing global interest in the floating offshore windfarm market.

29th March 2023

Damen unveils ground tackle installation solution

29th March 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

This month’s review looks at a selection of salvage and general towage tasks completed successfully by operators based in Spain, Japan and Greece.

29th March 2023

Busy times for towage and salvage companies

29th March 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Kotug Canada Inc has applied a non-toxic noise reduction coating to one of its tugs that is intended to reduce vibration and underwater noise that can disturb marine life.

28th March 2023

Kotug tug hull coating cuts noise for wildlife

28th March 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Svitzer has achieved gold status in Port of London Authority’s (PLA) Thames Green Scheme, which recognises towage operators’ environmental commitments and decarbonisation strategies.

28th March 2023

Svitzer wins prize for its Thames tugs

28th March 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Boluda’s announcement in February that it would buy Smit Lamnalco invites a closer look at the background to a deal in which the Spanish towage giant takes control of the world’s fifth-largest towage…

27th March 2023

Recent Boluda purchase ‘a logical consequence’

27th March 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Harland & Wolff’s Belfast shipyard (H&W) has completed the first of 23 barges for Cory Group company Riverside Energy Park Ltd as part of a contract to transport recyclable and non-recyclable waste…

27th March 2023

H&W completes first Cory barge

27th March 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

In 2026 it will be half a century since Sanmar Shipyards was set up by Orhan Gürün and his brother-in-law, the late Gökçen Seven.

21st March 2023

PROFILE: Sanmar Shipyards chairman Ali Gürün

21st March 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Secretary general Anna Maria Darmanin has been at the helm of the ETA since 2016, and today she says the industry has three major concerns that if not addressed could have quite…

14th March 2023

INTERVIEW: European tugowners in choppy seas

14th March 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Five tugboats were named at Turkish shipbuilder Sanmar’s shipyard in Istanbul this week, with a host of ‘firsts’ to celebrate.

10th March 2023

Five tugs named in a host of firsts for Sanmar and Canada

10th March 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

National Energy Corporation (NEC), a subsidiary of the state-owned National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago, has taken delivery of a new Damen ASD Tug 2811.

7th March 2023

Caribbean energy firm opts for clean Damen tug

7th March 2023

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

This month we look at recent activities for salvage contractors based in the Netherlands and Bangladesh, both members of the International Salvage Union.

3rd March 2023

Salvage round-up (March 2023)

3rd March 2023

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards and Canadian naval architect Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) recently celebrated the 50th delivery of a successful compact shiphandling tug design.

2nd March 2023

Tug delivery and order round-up

2nd March 2023

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Navtek Naval Technologies is maintaining steady progress with development of its Zeetug zero-emissions all-electric tug.

1st March 2023

TOWLINES March 2023

1st March 2023

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Netherlands-based Damen Marine Components (DMC) has secured its first multi-vessel order to supply components for four Multi Cats under construction in the US.

1st March 2023

First US order for Damen Marine Components

1st March 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Shipping has always faced great uncertainty due to the industry sitting at the centre of international trade, financial markets, energy markets and geopolitics.

28th February 2023

OPINION: Svitzer COO on towage and transition

28th February 2023

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Royal Navy (RN) has acquired two former offshore support vessels for roles including protecting the UK’s critical underwater infrastructure.

28th February 2023

OSVs take on naval roles

28th February 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The two fatalities of a tugboat sinking in the River Clyde near Glasgow have been named.

27th February 2023

Police name victims of tug sinking

27th February 2023

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Cummins has provided interesting background to what is a common shipyard procedure, extending a vessel’s life by replacing its engines.

27th February 2023

New Cummins engines for oil response vessel

27th February 2023