Tugs & Salvage

Svitzer Tugs is expanding fuel efficiencies throughout its fleet by fitting Enginei fuel monitoring systems from Royston Limited.

Fairmount Marine’s powerful deepsea tugs Fairmount Sherpa and Fairmount Summit have returned to their homeport of Rotterdam after successfully completing the delivery of the FPSO Skarv Idun from South Korea to Stord…

Kees Muller, the founder of the Dutch towage and salvage specialist Multraship, has received a knighthood from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Damen Shipyards is close to completing a series of four powerful terminal tugs for the Lamnalco Group.

Rotterdam based SMIT Salvage had teams busy in Latin America last year, refloating a series of grounded vessels in the major river systems.

Back in the November 2010 issue of MJ ‘Tugs & Towing’ included a report on the delivery of the Voith tractor tug Vortex to Solent Towage Ltd, the UK subsidiary of Østensjø…

Avra Towage BV of Rotterdam and Muller of Dordrecht have formed a joint venture with a view to increasing the scope of both companies. Muller operates a fleet of nine tugs and…

UK based Marine and Towage Services provider the MTS Group Ltd has acquired the twin-screw seagoing tug Multratug 7.

Hamburg based Fairplay Towage has sold Fairplay IX, its last traditional deepsea tug to a Greek operator.

Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord BV has purchased the fleet of four Damen Pushbusters formerly operated by Damen Marine Contractors (DMS).

Capilano Maritime Design Ltd, naval architects and designers based in North Vancouver, Canada have announced the completion of the design for a 24m (80 foot) ASD shiphandling tug for the Shaver Transportation…

The first of four new tugs ordered by Vancouver based Seaspan International, from Sanmar Denizcilik in Turkey, arrived at the owner’s base in North Vancouver in early January. Bearing the temporary name…

Over past months and years Maritime Journal has periodically reported on the progressive changes in design and modernization of the Damen Shipyards ‘Stan Tug’ series of tugs and workboats.

The complete Book of Papers and Discussions relating to ITS 2010, the 21st International Towage & Salvage Convention held in Vancouver in May of last year is now available.

Societe Nouvelle de Remorquage du Havre (SNRH), a subsidiary of Netherlands based Kotug, has given up it’s long battle to operate a tug service in the French container port of Le Havre…

The China Rescue and Salvage Bureau (CRS) of the Chinese Ministry of Transport is to build two large rescue and salvage vessels for use in the provinces of BeiHai and DongHai.

A huge three year, 29 vessel contract came to an end on 3 December 2010 when Damen Shipyards delivered the tug SD Deborah to Serco Marine Services.

Jack Gastons work is essential reading for anyone employed in the towage industry

Virtual reality training, although usually associated with larger vessels, is becoming more popular with the advent of more complex tugs and workboats.