Tugs & Salvage

Within a day or two of its arrival at the Seawork exhibition in Southampton, Damen Shipyards had sold the first example of the new Stan Tug 1205.

Virtually every tug owner worldwide recognises the need to meet future demands for more environmentally acceptable vessels.

The Dutch Coast Guard has now taken the offshore tug supply vessel ‘Ievoli Black’ on contract as the full time replacement for the emergency towing vessel ‘Waker’.

Recent Lloyd’s Forms for SMIT Salvage included a major firefighting operation in UK waters, involving the 100,000 DWT self discharging bulk carrier Yeoman Bontrup.

The arrival of new purpose built tugs for what used to be referred to as the Thames ‘lighterage’ industry is an extremely rare occurrence.

Sanmar Denizcilik Makine ve Ticaret Ltd, the Turkish tug owner and shipbuilder, has delivered three tugs to the Lamnalco Group.

Development in the towage sector continues to move on relentlessly. Just when it seems that every avenue in hull and propulsion design has been explored, yet another concept emerges.

Another announcement to delegates and the technical press at ITS 2010 highlighted the signing of a Letter of Intent by marine propulsion specialists Wärtsilä and Canadian ship design company Robert Allan Ltd…

Recently formed ALP Maritime Services BV of Rotterdam has set up a joint venture with Harms Bergung, Transport und Heavylift Gmbh & Co. KG. Hamburg based Harms has been active in the…

Delegates travelling to the International Tug & Salvage Convention and Exhibition ITS 2010 in May did so looking forward to this biennial event and what the host city of Vancouver, with its’…

Defying the downturn, Sedna Towage & Offshore has just purchased a new anchor handling tug. The Victory’ is the third tug to be managed by subsidiary, AnDoFe, joining ‘Independence’ and ‘Scapino’.

Italian owner Moby S.p.A. based in Cagliari has taken delivery of the powerful Voith tractor ‘Tommaso Onorato’. The tug was built by the Spanish shipbuilder Union Naval Valencia, a member of the…

The project to produce the world’s first, purpose built training tug took a quantum leap forward in May with the completion of the first prototype and a signed contract to build two…

‘Ginger’, the second of two new tugs to be completed in the Netherlands for Iskes Towage & Salvage, is now in service.

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has issued its report on the capsize and sinking of the Dutch tug ‘Ijsselstroom ‘ at Peterhead in June 2009. The incident, and the resulting…

On 27 April Damen Marine Services took delivery of the new tug ‘DMS Osprey’ and ‘DMS Pelican’, a Multicat 2409. The ‘DMS Osprey’ has a striking resemblance to the ‘Pushbuster’ class of…

Hamburg based tugowners Fairplay Towage have taken the anchorhandling ASD tug ‘Fox’ on a two year bare boat charter from Ocean Srl of Trieste. The deal was completed at the end of…

Kompania di Tou Korsou (KTK) took delivery of the ‘Orca VI’, a powerful Damen Stan Tug 4011 built by PT Dumas in Surabaya, Indonesia on 2 April. With its bollard pull of…

Marine Response Alliance, LLC (MRA) has received approval from the U.S. Coast Guard of its Salvage and Marine Firefighting Contract and Funding Agreement.