Tugs & Salvage

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…

A massive project to completely restore the ocean going tug Elbe to its original 1959 condition took a great step forward on Saturday 14 April after eight years of hard work by…

Cheoy Lee Shipyards of Hong Kong was recently awarded a contract from a South American client for three new RAmparts 3200CL class tugs.

A tragic explosion and fire aboard the Svitzer tug A Deebel on 29 April claimed the lives of seven people and injured four others in Qatar. Only one person escaped unhurt. It…

Tug company Svitzer, which has three tugs operating in the Clyde and Forth estuaries, has given 25 Cricket Factory equipment sets to Cricket Scotland to support the organisations work promoting cricket across…

The Colombian tug operator Intertug S A, established in 1993, has taken delivery of the Tanok, an ASD Tug 3213 from Damen Shipyards.

Early in 2005 the Naseeb Maritime Company of Kuwait took delivery of three new pilot boats and two new line-handling boats to ease ship handling in their port.

Two books have been published recently that will have a place on the book shelves of many involved in the tug and offshore industries, both published by the ABR Company Ltd.

Salvors sometimes complain that salvage has to be carried out in the public gaze. On 31 July Terneuzen based Multraship, working in cooperation with Belgian salvage operator URS Salvage & Maritime Contracting,…

Boston Towing and Transportation Company of the USA has taken delivery of two new tugs designed by Robert Allan Ltd (RAL), Naval Architects of Vancouver, BC, to support offshore LNG terminal operations…

Costa Crociere and the Costa Concordia Emergency Commissioner’s Office have awarded the contract for the removal of the stricken cruise liner from Giglio Island to Titan Salvage in partnership with the Italian…

The city of Vancouver will host the 21st International Tug & Salvage Convention and Exhibition on 17 through 21 May this year, for the first time in 37 years.

At a routine meeting about leisure boating in Harwich Haven, one of the final questions asked was whether there were any dangers to navigation.

Damen Shipyards have delivered a Stan Tug 1205 to UK recycling and construction company S Walsh & Sons, based in Essex. The company purchased the tug, named SW Essex, as part of…

Scheepswerf Gebr. Kooiman BV in the Netherlands has delivered a powerful new pusher tug for ThyssenKrupp Veerhaven BV, also in the Netherlands. The boat was delivered twelve months after the keel laying.

As correspondent for towage industry matters for several decades, I have reported on countless new concepts that appear among the designs for shiphandling tugs and equipment.