All Sanmar Shipyards articles
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Successful trials for Sanmar’s latest fully electric tug
Turkish shipbuilder Sanmar is building a tug destined to be the first fully electric one to operate in Latin America, specifically Chile.
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Sanmar’s Boğaçay class success continues
Sanmar Shipyards has reported delivery of its Boğaçay class tug to a domestic operator and an order from a new Bulgarian customer.
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Sanmar Shipyards reports busy start to 2025
Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards has reported a busy start to 2025 as it delivers one of its best-selling vessels to a progressive Norwegian tug owner and secures its first order of the new year.
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Fully electric tug heading for Scandinavia
Turkish tug builder Sanmar has signed a contract with towage and marine services provider Svitzer to build a fully electric tug to be deployed between Denmark and Sweden.
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Double delivery ends buoyant year for Sanmar
Sanmar Shipyards has marked the end of a productive 2024 with deliveries of a powerful compact tug to its owner in Croatia and an ice-class tug to Finland.
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Sanmar’s all-electric tug – a progress report
Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards has provided a progress report on the performance of one of its battery-powered, all-electric ship-handling tugs.
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First electric tug launched in South America
The first electric tug in South America has been launched by SAAM Towage for operations with the Chilean Oil Company ENAP.
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Turkey leaps forward in tug electrification
Sanmar Shipyards has begun construction on four new electric tugs for the BOTAŞ Petroleum Pipeline Corporation
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Svitzer’s first TRAnsverse tug delivered
Sanmar Shipyards, Robert Allan and Svitzer have delivered an innovative tug that will ultimately use electric propulsion with methanol fuels cells.
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Trio of tug deliveries by Sanmar
Peter Barker dives into the latest deliveries by one of Turkey’s best-known shipyards, Sanmar.
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Sanmar bags Turkish government tug contract
Turkey’s coastal safety directorate has ordered two powerful tugs from Sanmar to enhance its already extensive fleet of vessels.
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Sanmar builds another 7 battery-electric tugs
Sanmar is building on its experience with electric tugs with another seven on order, five for unnamed clients and a further two on spec.
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Final tug joins ‘greenest tug fleet’ in the world
A tug fleet claimed by its operator to be ‘the greenest in the world’ is now complete, with the delivery of five Sanmar-built tugs to Canada.
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Targe expands its Sanmar-built tug fleet
Targe Towing has added an eighth tug to its fleet with a Robert Allan design built by Turkish builder Sanmar.
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Sanmar delivers quartet of different tugs
Sanmar has delivered four tugs of quite different design types to owners in Italy, France and Norway.
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Sanmar launches first electric tug for own fleet
The seventh electric tug built by Sanmar within a year has been launched for its own fleet and operations around Turkish ports.
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Steel cut on first methanol tugs for Kotug
Turkish tug builder Sanmar has cut steel on its first dual-fuel methanol vessels for Netherlands-baed operator Kotug.
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100% electric tugs delivered to SAAM Towage
Tug operators and owners are lining up to add electric vessels to their fleets with SAAM Towage one of the first in the queue.
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Sanmar double delivery rounds off busy year
Two tug deliveries at the end of 2023 marked the end of a busy year for tug builder Sanmar.
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Canadian tug fleet gets an electric boost courtesy of Sanmar
Sanmar Shipyards has delivered its second electric tug to HaiSea Marine in Canada