Tugs & Salvage

VESSELS

VESSELS

Turkish tug builder Med Marine is experiencing busy times, reporting deliveries to owners in Italy, Greece and Libya and a significant three-vessel order for Denmark’s Svitzer Towage.

6th October 2023

Busy times for Med Marine

6th October 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Excess speed probably caused the grounding of a tug that was connecting a towline to an LNG tanker in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel last year, the US National Transportation Safety Board…

6th October 2023

Tug grounding probably caused by excess speed

6th October 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The decaying oil tanker FSO Safer could have been a humanitarian and environmental disaster. For once, though, the ultimate outcome was one of success rather than failure. Peter Barker reports on how a tragedy…

26th September 2023

Salvage success of a ‘ticking time bomb’

26th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

’Great British Green Tugs: How do we get there?’ was the title of a seminar held during London International Shipping Week (LISW) - and it was answered overall by ‘not for a…

15th September 2023

LISW tugs seminar throws up more questions than answers

15th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

News that a tug from Sanmar Shipyard’s own fleet is heading to Denmark reminds us that biggest is not always best and that with ‘one careful owner’ a nearly-new option can satisfy…

15th September 2023

Sanmar delivers compact workhorse to Denmark

15th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

For those assuming P&O Maritime Logistics is all about cruises and ferries, news of an exclusive shiphandling towage contract with DP World in the Dominican Republic might come as something of a…

8th September 2023

P&O SPOTLIGHT: More than cruises and ferries

8th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

More than just a tug: Peter Barker has a look at what Damen’s Shoalbuster can offer aside from its traditional work.

7th September 2023

Spotlight on diversity of Damen’s Shoalbuster

7th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Turkish tug builder Sanmar has launched the first in a series of multipurpose tugs designed by Robert Allan.

4th September 2023

New generation of multi-purpose tugs launched

4th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A 215m floating dock has successfully been towed across the Atlantic from Germany to Jamaica by deep sea tug Titan.

1st September 2023

German floating dock arrives in Jamaica

1st September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Norway-based Corvus Energy’s energy storage system has been installed in the M/V Green Diamond in Houston, US in what is the first diesel-electric inland towboat in the country.

30th August 2023

Corvus ESS powers first of a kind in the US

30th August 2023