Tugs & Salvage

The Rotterdam based shipping company Rotortug (KST) BV and ASD Ship Design from Alblasserdam have invented a revolutionary device to prevent towline failures on tugs, due to chafing against a fixed ‘staples’…

Members of the European Tugowners Association (ETA) gathered in Turku, Finland, for its 49th Annual Meeting and Conference hosted by Finnish member Alfons Håkans Oy.

At the end of June the first of four new Voith propelled tractor tugs ordered by the Antwerp Port Authority arrived from the Union Naval Valencia (UNV) shipyard in Spain.

Royal Boskalis Westminster NV has announced that its associated company Smit Lamnalco has been awarded a 10 year contract, with additional options for extensions, by Esso Highland (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil) to…

After much discussion and lobbying Government, the UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has placed a contract enabling an Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) to be stationed in Scottish waters until March 2013.

A total of five Damen Shoalbusters have recently been purchased from owners in the Netherlands for use in Australia.

Harley Marine Services is participating in a field follow study of the Cat 3500 United States EPA Tier 3 compliant marine propulsion engines which is scheduled for completion this summer.

Sanmar Marine has enjoyed an expansion of trade at the Port of Mersin on Turkey’s southern coast, where the company secured the harbour towage contract in 2007.

International maritime service provider Kotug was in celebratory mood during May and June with the re-launch of its ‘hybrid’ E-KOTUG and the formal naming of five new tugs added to its European…

On 12 June the Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore, confirmed the UK Government will continue to fund an Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) for the rest of the Spending Review up…

ITS 2012 – The 22nd International Tug, Salvage and OSV Convention and Exhibition organised by the ABR Company Ltd was held from 28 May to 1 June in the Spanish city of…

A sophisticated Voith Schneider tractor tug, the Shinano Maru, has been delivered to the Japanese tug owner Fukushima Kisen KK for use in the port of Onahama, Iwaki, Japan.

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published its very detailed report into the investigation of the collision, capsize and foundering of the tug Chiefton with the tragic loss of one…

Early in June the Baloe 2, a new Damen Shoalbuster 2308, returned to the Damen shipyard at Hardinxveld in the Netherlands after running successful trials.

Joop Timmermans, a well known figure in the towage and salvage industry, stepped down as managing director of International Transport Contractors (ITC) at the beginning of June. Now aged 68, Joop started…

On 16 May the crews from the Solent Towage tugs at Fawley in Southampton Water UK held an unusual event to raise funds for two cancer day care centres.

Damen’s very latest Azimuthing Stern Drive tug design, the ASD Tug 3212, was introduced to the world’s towage industry at the International Tug, Salvage & OSV Convention (ITS 2012) in Barcelona last…

The new Voith tractor tug Ilan 1 was handed over to the Haifa Port Company Ltd on 22 May by the Union Naval Valencia (UNV), one of the Boluda Group Shipyards, after…