Tugs & Salvage

Smit Panther, the first example of Damen’ s new ASD Tug 3213 design, is en route to its homeport of Rotterdam. The tug is one of a series of four powerful terminal…

Many tug companies around the world are turning to ‘ shore power’ to economise on fuel and cut exhaust emissions when their shiphandling tugs are not in use and/or standing by.

On 2 July, Fairplay Towage of Hamburg formally handed over the 47 year old harbour tug Fairplay VIII to the ‘ Foundation Hamburg Maritim’ to join its collection of historic ships.

Fairmount Expedition and Fairmount Glacier, two modern deepsea tugs from the fleet of Fairmount Marine, have been chartered by the French Government and dispatched to Brazil to participate in the search for…

Tugnology 09, held in Amsterdam on 19 -21 May, has been proclaimed a great success by the delegates, exhibitors and organisers alike. This was only the second conference of its kind, devoted…

From 13 to 15 May the European Tugowners Association held its 46th Annual General Meeting in Lisbon, hosted by its member company Svitzer Group.

A punchy new Malaysian built anchor handling tug and a Singapore built ocean going pontoon have been sent from Asia to northern Europe as deck cargo on another ship also newly built…

Barely a month goes by without news of more tugs being completed to designs from the Vancouver based design team of Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) naval architects. Among those designs are those…

A recent design by Robert Allan Ltd is the new RAstar, a powerful ASD tug introduced to meet the stringent requirements of gas and oil terminal operators. The first examples of this…

A new versatile pusher tug has been delivered to German operators Hans Schramm & Sohn GmbH of Brunsbuttle. Named Christian, the tug is the second vessel of its type to be built…

Capt Mark Nicholson, operations director of J P Knight (Caledonian) Limited, took up the appointment of managing director of Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Limited on 25 May. He will have responsibility for the…

The safety and effectiveness of escort tugs operating in the indirect towing mode is a matter of concern to many owners and designers. When operating in this way the tug’ s towline…

KBV003, the third of a trio of sophisticated emergency response vessels ordered from Damen Shipyards by the Swedish Coastguard, was launched on 18 May at the Galatz yard in Romania (see Maritime…

In America, Louisiana based LA Carriers owner Russel Plaisance put a newbuild tug into operation recently.

Bay-Houston Towing Company in the USA has taken delivery of their third Z-Tech 7500 tug, built to a design which is the largest of the Robert Allan line of Z-Tech tugboats.

Operational costs are always an important issue in mooring operations and have become even more of a focus recently due to the economic downturn.

To produce a register of the world’ s tugs is an impossible task, when one considers the huge variation in size and the obscure location of so many smaller vessels. With the…

Svitzer Ocean Towage is in the process of modernising all three deepsea tugs (Singapore, Rotterdam and London) taken over from SmitWijs in 2007. The first tug to undergo this important modernisation programme…

US based shipbrokers Marcon International is well known worldwide for its special interest in tugs and barges. Although its business is very much orientated towards the American market, Marcon maintains a massive…