Tugs & Salvage

News regarding the use and construction of new Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) designed tugs of the ‘RAmparts’ class and its various derivatives is coming in thick and fast.

The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has awarded a new short term contract with J P Knight (Lowestoft) Ltd to enable the Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) Anglian Sovereign and Anglian Monarch…

After a long and anxious wait, the Icelandic ‘Landhelgisgaeslan’ (Coastal Guard) (LHG) has taken delivery of its new multipurpose offshore patrol vessel Thor.

Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld has signed a contract with Iskes Towage & Salvage of Ijmuiden and Offshore Ship Designers (OSD) to construct two ‘Green’ tugs.

In October of last year Cheoy Lee Shipyards handed over the first of a series of four powerful terminal support tugs to Hong Kong United Dockyards.

Following an agreement between St.Lucia Air & Seaports Authority and Resolve Salvage & Fire, Resolve has refloated the sunken container vessel Angeln then scuttled the vessel at a deep water reefing site.

Fairmount Marine’s tug Fairmount Alpine has successfully assisted in the refloating of the grounded MV Ikan Sepat just offshore Puerto Cortés, Honduras. The salvage operation was directed by T&T Bisso Salvage.

Macduff Ship Design has been awarded a contract to provide a design package for a new 23m harbour tug to be built by Torgem Shipbuilding Ind & Trade AS, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey.

The Panama Canal Authority has awarded a $158.3m contract to Spanish shipbuilders Astilleros Armon S.A. for the construction of 14 new tugs needed to handle the increase in traffic predicted when the…

The Damen ASD Tug 2009 is the smallest azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug ever produced by Damen.

On 8 October two new harbour tugs, Norvegia and Spagna, were formerly named prior to joining the local tug fleet of Rimorchiatori Riuniti Porto di Genova Srl.

The rapid expansion of the Iskes Towage & Salvage tug fleet, based in the Netherlands at Ijmuiden, continues unabated with the recent addition of one new ASD tug and a second hand…

Crowley Maritime Corporation has established a new Project Solutions group that ties together the company’s experience and assets from across the group, including Jensen Maritime and Titan Salvage.

Rotterdam based towage and salvage company Fairmount Marine BV, part of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Company, has reported the recent completion of two contracts.

Dutch shipbuilder Damen has delivered a MultiCat 2611 workboat, Whalsa Lass, to Shetland based Research Fishing Ltd, to be operated by Delta Marine Ltd.

Chantiers Piriou, the shipbuilding branch of Piriou at Concarneau in France, has delivered two 72 ton bollard pull harbour tugs to port authorities in both Arzew and Skikda, Algeria.

Despite bad weather and large sea swells intermittently stopping reclamation work onboard the stricken container vessel Rena off New Zealand, the ship is, at time of writing, still being worked on by…

Just days after the quartet of British Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) left their established stations around the UK coastline, two have been given an eleventh hour reprieve under a new temporary 90…

The first tug for the newly formed company Samson Tug Boats, on the Fraser River near Vancouver BC, is now in service.

Fairplay BV of Rotterdam, a company within the Fairplay Towage Group, completed the takeover process to acquire the Polish towage provider ‘WUZ - Shipping and Port Services Gdynia Co Ltd’ on 1…