Tugs & Salvage

The New Orleans Workboat Festival was the venue recently for signing of an order for two Damen Modular Multi Cats for Canadian principles.

The pattern of delivery and order news is back in full swing this month with significant deliveries from European builders, orders of note from further afield and related news from engine supplier…

Offshore Ship Designers (OSD) has revealed the latest addition to its Azistern tug series with a compact, fuel-efficient tug featuring low wash and offering a degree of adaptability to suit specific requirements.

Maritime rope supplier Lankhorst Ropes has introduced a new towline connection aimed at providing tug owners with a quicker and safer method of connecting the various components that make up a towline.

Port tugs from Dover Harbour Board have come to the assistance of one tug towing another tug which encountered propulsion problems in the busy shipping lanes of the Dover Straits Separation Scheme.

Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands-based Kooiman Marine Group has received an order for the supply and installation of a 100 tons Delta Pin unit for one of Multraship’s larger tugs.

The independent German competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, has imposed fines amounting to approximately 13m Euros on three harbour towage service providers following an investigation into a cartel agreement.

Wärtsilä Corporation has received the first order for its HY 2 hybrid power modules for a new escort tug to serve the Swedish port of Luleå in the Gulf of Bothnia at…

Existing requirements along with potential expansion at the world’s largest bulk export facility in Australia has led to the award for Kotug’s Australian subsidiary of a contract to operate nine powerful tugs…

Iskes Towage & Salvage has announced a flurry of news concerning expansion at ports in the Portugal, Germany and the Netherlands.

Rotterdam-based Kotug has applied for a patent to use drone technology to reduce the risks for tugs operating in the so-called danger zone when connecting towlines to ships.

Despite the recent holiday period with the traditional slowdown of deliveries and orders we can report follow-up news of a previously reported order in Europe and developments from further afield.

Portsmouth International Port and Hessle-based SMS Towage Ltd have launched a dedicated towage service for commercial ships using the UK south coast port.

Koole Mammoet Salvage has taken part in two wreck removal projects in the Caribbean, one involving a vessel that was stranded nearly 20 years ago.

At the annual general meeting of the International Salvage Union (ISU) recently in Singapore, Ms Charo Coll was appointed president, taking over from Mr John Witte who continues as a member of…

Ardent Salvage has been involved in a protracted salvage operation dogged by bad weather involving a grounded container ship in the South Pacific

Olympia is the capital of Washington State and when Parthia, one of the port’s longest working and oldest tugs sank in Hood Canal in August 2017 members of the South Sound Maritime…

Caterpillar Marine and Sanmar Shipyards have entered into a collaboration agreement to build a tug with an innovative hydraulic propulsion system furthering principle of a hybrid tug design.

This month, while we report on three tug deliveries the news is dominated by orders for no fewer than sixteen vessels indicating a continuing appetite for owners to replace existing tonnage, and…