Tugs & Towing – 20 Years On

Over the past two decades the towage industry has seen phenomenal changes in almost every sector and every aspect of the business. The industry has a history traceable with some accuracy to the 1830s and tug development moved forward in ‘ fits and starts’ until the 1960s, when a variety of new technologies started to appear. But during the past 20 years the industry has experienced massive and dramatic changes in the way that it operates and a major increase in radical new designs of both tugs and their propulsion systems.