Tugs & Salvage

Edison Chouest Offshore is readying a fleet of tugs and oil response vessels as it prepares to take over towage and associated support duties at Valdez Marine Terminal.

Damen has started an introduction tour of European ports including Italy showcasing its ‘revolutionary’ new RSD Tug 2513 Innovation.

Family-owned Finnish tug owner Alfons Håkans is taking the use of tugs for icebreaking to a new level using a separate powered ice bow.

Eight tug deliveries and one order are reported this month including news of four and fifteen vessel series orders for operation in the Caspian Sea and Indonesia.

With increasingly sophisticated and higher-powered tugs operating in safety conscious environments training is moving on from the traditional approach of simply learning from the previous generation.

In what is described as a ‘novel supply agreement’ Sanmar Shipyards has agreed a multiple order for thrusters and winches with Rolls-Royce.

Southampton UK-based Meercat Workboats has revealed the latest addition to its portfolio, an 18m multipurpose workboat becoming the largest such in its range.

Helsinki-based technology group Wärtsilä continues to grow its global footprint following extension of a tug maintenance contract in the US.

With the Royal Netherlands Navy receiving four new Damen hybrid tugs it is reported the third of four tugs they replace has been sold to Canadian interests.

The International Salvage Union (ISU) has presented its annual pollution prevention survey indicating trends enforcing the importance of the professional salvage industry.