Tugs & Salvage

Last month ‘MJ’ took a break from reporting tug orders and deliveries; if just one month is an indication of the health of the industry, business appears good with three orders and…

HR Wallingford and its Australia Ship Simulation Centre in Fremantle have shed interesting light on the degree of planning involved in the towing and positioning of the largest offshore floating facility ever…

Svitzer has announced the signing of a fifteen-year deal to provide marine support services at Bangladesh’s first LNG import terminal.

The Netherlands-based Van Grevenstein’s Scheepswerf BV has completed the reactivation of a British-owned Shoalbuster following a period of lay-up.

Earlier this year SMS Towage took delivery of the 2014-built ‘Ulupinar’ class tug ‘Englishman’. The Hull-based company has now provided interesting background to the history of this particular vessel name.

Kotug Smit Towage has assisted the load out of two jackets from Heerema’s yard at Flushing bound for Maersk Oil North Sea Ltd’s Culzean field in the North Sea.

Technology group Wärtsilä has secured the first order for a tug featuring its recently introduced HY hybrid power module from Italian tug owner Rimorchiatori Riuniti.

Consolidation in the towage industry features regularly of late and the recent merger of some of the operations of Smit and Kotug has been followed with an agreement with a major shipping…

Boluda Corporación Maritima has presented a state-of-the-art silent tug to the technical committee of classification society Bureau Veritas (BV).

County Cork, Ireland-based Atlantic Towage & Marine Ltd has taken delivery of a powerful ASD previously owned by Norwegian towage service provider Østensjø Rederi.