Tugs & Salvage

VESSELS

VESSELS

News from Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards illustrates how advances in technology are influencing the design of ship-handling tugs and how the world’s leading shipyards are meeting the challenges of turning ideas into reality.

30th October 2023

Tug development: evolution or revolution?

30th October 2023

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

A memorandum of understanding has been signed between energy company Mabanaft Group and Fairplay Towage that should result in tugs running on hydrogen in the Port of Hamburg.

25th October 2023

MoU signed to supply Hamburg tugs with hydrogen

25th October 2023

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Remarkable 3D imagery has been published showing precise details of ships wrecked as they tried to evacuate troops from Dunkirk during World War II.

18th October 2023

Dunkirk shipwrecks pictured in new 3D images

18th October 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Macduff Ship Design has been undertaking some interesting development work on future tug technology, in addition to its latest ASD tug deliveries.

16th October 2023

Delivering future electric tug technology

16th October 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The International Salvage Union (ISU) has appointed John Witte Jr. as ISU president, succeeding Captain Nicholas Sloane, who will continue as a member of ISU’s Executive Committee.

16th October 2023

ISU appoints new president

16th October 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

With its location on the Moray Firth in Aberdeenshire, it will be no surprise that Macduff Ship Design describes fishing vessels as “the foundation on which the company was built”.

13th October 2023

Tug order boost for Macduff

13th October 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has put in an order for 10 more tugs, signalling an important upgrade to the fleet.

13th October 2023

Suez Canal expands tug fleet by 10 vessels

13th October 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Damen Shipyards has won a major order from Port of Antwerp-Bruges for six new tugs, sending a clear signal of both the port’s green ambitions and further confidence in one of Damen’s…

11th October 2023

Six new Damen tugs for Port of Antwerp-Bruges

11th October 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

In detail: Peter Barker inspects Damen’s ASD Tug 2111.

10th October 2023

Introducing Damen’s ASD Tug 2111

10th October 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

More fears have been raised about the transport of electric vehicles after a container believed to contain a used one caught fire off the coast of Greece.

9th October 2023

EV suspected of causing container fire

9th October 2023