Tugs & Salvage

Svitzer Australia has announced that it will provide tugs and a pilot boat at the Chevron operated Wheatstone LNG Terminal under a marine services contract valued at approximately $650m.

As offshore oil exploration moves into progressively deeper and more hazardous waters the vessels required to serve that very specialised offshore sector have also grown in size, sophistication and power.

As the popularity of tug designs from the drawing boards of Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) continues to grow so too does the wide variety of vessels emerging from the company’s seemingly bottomless…

On 13 December 2013 the Canadian marine services company Ocean, based in Quebec, held a ceremony to bless the latest addition to its tug fleet, the Ocean Tundra.

Adler and Allan’s salvage team has helped in the recovery of the luxury motor yacht, Kahu, from the seabed at East Cowes Marina on the Medina Estuary in the UK.

Iskes Towage & Salvage has signed an agreement with VSTEP for the delivery of two NAUTIS Tug and Offshore Supply Vessel (OSV) simulators.

Fairmount Marine’s tug Fairmount Summit delivered the rig Ocean Valiantsafely to the port of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, following a tow of some 3,000 from offshore Cameroon.

The Costa Concordia salvage mission has been one of the largest and most complex operations of its kind, with around 500 people working together over the past year to bring the cruise…

Danish salvage company J.A. Rederiet salvaged the grounded Swedish trawler Solvag at Skaw last month.

Early in November Damen Shipyards Gorinchem delivered the shiphandling tug Prompt to Lutchen & Reimers, of Bremerhaven, a subsidiary of URAG.

The well established Shoft Shipyard in Bharuch, Gujarat, India has delivered the new ASD tug GMB 3 to the the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB).

Competition in the ship handling market is and always has been extremely fierce.

Terasea Pte Ltd of Singapore, part of the POSH Terasea consortium, has taken delivery of the Terasea Eagle, the third anchorhandler in a series of four identical vessels to be built by…

Sanmar, the Turkish shipbuilder and tug owner, has introduced yet another new tug to their design portfolio.

In the past few weeks six new tugs have been completed, all to designs by Macduff Ship Design Ltd.

At the Annual General Meeting of the International Salvage Union (ISU) in Hong Kong on 24 October, Captain Leendert Muller became the organisation’s new president.

A ceremony was held by Seacontractors on 23 October to have Sea Hotel, their latest new Shoalbuster 2709, named by sponsor lady Mrs. Marieke Regoor. The event was held in Dubai Festival…

Early in October, tug builders Sanmar held a massive event to name the world’s first LNG fuelled tug, Borgoy, built for Norwegian tug owners Bukser og Bergings AS (B&B).

Sanmar also have three other vessels under construction for Bukser og Bergings AS (B&B), each of a different type.

Construction has started on the first example of the unique ‘Efficient Double-ended DYnamic’ (EDDY) tug and workboat series, mentioned previously in Tugs & Towing (May 2012).