Tugs & Salvage

The annual Salvage and Wreck Removal Conference has taken place with salvage, insurance and legal communities reported to be ‘focused together on this important industry’.

There are ten recent deliveries of note to report this month from shipyards both within Europe and those beyond with important European content.

Smit Salvage has been awarded a five-year contract to provide emergency response support to floating assets located in Brazilian waters.

Multraship Towage & Salvage has provided emergency response services in the Black Sea and Denmark.

Recent activities for Tsavliris Salvage have highlighted that complexities often extend beyond just sending a tug to tow a vessel to safety.

Flag state authorities in Luxembourg have issued an immediate action safety bulletin following loss of the anchor-handling tug supply vessel ‘Bourbon Rhode’.

Boston USA-based Sea Machines Robotics is supplying a remote helm control system for Herman Sr. BV’s Shoalbuster tug ‘Teddy’.

Sanmar Shipyards and Schottel are extending a partnership dating back 16 years following a framework agreement to supply thrusters for the Turkish yard’s Bigaçay class newbuilding tugs.

This month’s review of newbuild tug deliveries and orders focuses on two of the best known and most prolific builders of such vessels, Damen Shipyards Group and Sanmar Shipyards.