Tugs & Salvage

Over a period of just a few months the number of tug companies offering towage services in the port of Gothenburg has tripled.

Damen Shipyards has delivered the ASD tugs Karloo and Kalarka to Half Tide Marine Pty Ltd of Australia.

Three large Hitachi Zaxis excavators have been selected to help clear one of the biggest ship graveyards in the world.

The British Government should withdraw its controversial proposals to modernise the Coastguard Service, said Members of Parliament on the influential cross-party Transport Committee.

Tugnology 11, the third two day conference to be organised by the ABR Company exclusively for the towage industry, was remarkably successful.

The name Kumera Norgear is one that has become synonymous with tugs and their fire fighting equipment over many years.

In spite of considerable opposition and lobbying, the British government shows no sign of changing its decision to scrap the four Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) stationed in strategic locations around the UK…

After many months of work and consultation the European Tugowners Association (ETA) and the European Maritime Pilots’ Association (EMPA) have issued their ‘Joint ETS-EMPA Guidelines on Design and Layout of Harbour Towage…

Tugowners KOTUG International have formed a partnership with Canadian company Aspin, Kemp and Associates (AKA) to produce Europe’s first true ‘Hybrid’ tug.

The deepsea tug VB Antartico, operated by the Boluda Group, sank on the evening of 15 May some 70 miles off the northern coast of Portugal while towing the concrete floating dock…

Maritime service provider KOTUG International, with offices in Rotterdam, Hamburg and Bremerhaven, has recently patented the towing ring KO-LINK, originally developed by the company for its own use.

The annual ‘Tugworld Review 2010’, produced by the ABR Company Ltd in association with International Tug & Salvage, was published at the beginning of the year.

The training of tug crews is becoming a matter of crucial importance, particularly for companies operating shiphandling tugs.

When the Tarka 3, a Damen Shoalbuster 2709, was delivered to its owners Herman Sr BV in April 2010 it replaced an earlier, less powerful tug bearing the name Tarka which was…

Offshore Ship Designers (OSD), with headquarters in the Netherlands at Ijmuiden, is to design a new compact but powerful offshore anchorhandling tug/support vessel for the Dutch operator Neptune Marine Services BV.

HvS Dredging Support BV, of Harlingen in the Netherlands, has announced that in addition to its current support vessel Zwerver I, a new unique multi-purpose DP-1 support vessel is to be built,…

The Marine and Towage Services Group Ltd (MTS), based in the south west of England, has made three additions to its growing fleet in just a few weeks.

An act of piracy involving a tug and barge in Malaysian waters has led to a director of the tug owning company appealing to the towage industry and brokers worldwide for help.…

The installation of fire fighting equipment aboard harbour tugs is commonplace but the capacity of those installations rarely exceeds that necessary to comply with classification society Fi-Fi 1 notation, with a total…

It is just twelve years since Dutch towage company Kotug introduced a series of four ‘Rotor Tugs’ to the ports of Rotterdam and Bremerhaven.