Tugs & Salvage

The latest addition to the Kotug fleet, the Rotor Tug RT Peter arrived in Rotterdam in mid-April after a very lengthy delivery voyage from the Far East.

The first major transfer of prefabricated blocks (sections) for the new aircraft carrier, ‘HMS Queen Elizabeth’, was completed on 8 April when the barge ‘Osprey Carrier’ arrived in the Firth of Forth,…

The names ‘Herman Sr’, and ‘Tarka’, well known in the dredging and marine civil engineering business. Dutch tugowners Herman Sr BV took delivery of their first Shoalbuster named Tarka from the Damen…

In recent years the Dutch towage specialist ITC applied a strategy to progressively diversify its activities more into offshore support and other similar activities, alongside its traditional core business of deepsea ocean…

Dutch tug owners F J M Hubregte van der Berge have taken delivery of the new anchorhandling tug Dutch Pearl. The new tug was built by Scheepswerf Gebr Kooiman of Zwijndrecht and…

SMIT Salvage expertise was in strong demand during the final quarter of 2009 and the opening weeks of 2010. The assignments included a number of ‘rescue tows’, successfully confronting emergencies which could…

Antwerp based towage organisation URS, a subsidiary of Smit International, is in the process of introducing a new class of four anchorhandling tugs for their offshore fleet.

The Acta Marine Group, based in the Netherlands at Den Helder, has recently taken several significant steps to consolidate and modernise their growing organisation.

Italian tugowner Rimorchiatori Napoli of Naples has taken delivery of Cheradi, the first of a new RAstar 2700 class, a design intended to take the concept of the compact tug to a…

In the early hours of 19 March, Shetland Coastguard tasked the Emergency Towing Vessel ‘Anglian Sovereign’ to go to the assistance of the general cargo ship ‘Wilson Dover’, disabled with steering problems…

The powerful twin screw tug ‘Mustang’ has been sold by Dutch owners Bouwman Towing & Shipping BV to Ippo Marine Ltd of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Damen Shipyards has replaced their famous ‘PushyCat’ with an entirely new vessel for their Stan Tug range.

The first of a series of four new Z-Tech 4500 class tugshas entered service with the United States Navy Pilots operating in Puget Sound, Washington state, USA.

When the deepsea tug ‘Anglian Earl’ returned to service recently, bearing the traditional livery of JP Knight, it marked the completion of an integration process that started in December 2007 with the…

Major US towage and transportation group Crowley has signed a contract with Bollinger Shipyards to build two newly designed ocean-going tugs, with options for additional vessels.

US shipbuilder Washburn & Doughty Associates, Inc. of East Boothbay, Maine has now delivered the ‘Loretta B Moran’ and ‘Catherine C Moran’ to Moran Towing of Lake Charles, LLC.

It’s just a year since the world’s first true ‘Hybrid’ tug entered service with Foss Maritime in the USA. This important milestone created considerable interest in the towage industry and occurred at…

‘Osayame’, the first tug of its type to be built in Cape Town by Damen Shipyards, finally sailed to its homeport in Nigeria in late January.

The popular annual ‘Tugworld Review 2009’ has now been published by the ABR Company Ltd in association with International Tug & Salvage magazine.

The fleet of Sinbad Marine Services received a substantial boost in the New Year with the purchase of the former Norwegian tug ‘Bison’. Formerly owned by Bukser og Berging AS, the vessel…