Tugs & Salvage – Page 63
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NewsTOWLINES
Smit Lamnalco has placed an order with Sanmar Shipyard in Turkey for the construction of two 34m long RAstar 3400 escort tugs with a bollard pull in excess of 85 tonnes astern, intended specifically for LNG terminal operations. The tugs will feature electric frequency controlled escort winches, lights and other ...
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NewsKOTUG dominates the news
During the past few weeks the towage industry media has been ‘humming’ with a host of news reports from the Rotterdam headquarters of KOTUG International.
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NewsArmon delivers the first tractor tug for Panama
Spanish ship building and repair company Astilleros Armon SA has delivered the tug Cerro Itamut, the first of a series of fourteen azimuthing tractor tugs for ACP - the Panama Canal Authority.
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NewsPetersen & Alpers order the first Damen ASD 2913
Damen Shipyards has announced that Hamburg based tug vowner Petersen & Alpers will be their first customer for a newly designed ASD Tug 2913.
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NewsPreparations for Costa Concordia righting
Scotland based subsea grouting specialist FoundOcean has been working at the Costa Concordia wreck removal site since October 2012.
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NewsTug delivery crews dice with cyclones
During the first three month’s of 2013 some 13 tugs, two of which were towing barges, an OSV, a landing craft and three dredgers were mobilized and safely delivered to their new destinations.
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NewsFairmount Sherpa delivers rig in Las Palmas
The tug Fairmount Sherpa, operated by Rotterdam based Fairmount Marine, has safely delivered the rig GSF Arctic I in Las Palmas, having been towed from off Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
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NewsFour sets of deck equipment delivered
America based manufacturer JonRie has delivered four ship sets of deck equipment to Seabulk Towing.
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NewsPOSH and TeraSea form a powerful alliance
A newly formed joint venture entitled ‘POSH TeraSea’ has resulted in world’s largest and youngest tug fleet of vessels for ocean towage services.
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NewsDamen delivers Ice class ASDs to Ukraine
Damen Shipyards has delivered two ‘Ice class’ variants of their increasingly popular ASD Tug 3212 shiphandling tug to the Ukrainian State Enterprise – Mariupol Sea Commercial Port.
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NewsTOWLINES
Among a number of the recent high profile tows carried out recently by Fairmount Marine of Rotterdam was the delivery of the 156,907 dwt container ship Emma Maersk from the Suez Canal Container Terminal in Egypt to Fincantieri’s repair yard in Palermo, Sicily. The 398m long Emma Maersk was disabled ...
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NewsMacduff tug designs grow in popularity
Over the past year or so substantial orders have been secured for tugs, workboats and other craft to be built to designs from Scotland based naval architects and marine consultants, Macduff Ship Design.
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NewsKOTUG news from Australia and the UK
Teekay Shipping - Australia has chartered three more high powered Rotor Tugs from KOTUG International to boost maritime services for the mining industry in Western Australia''s North-West region.
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NewsStatesman joins the SMS fleet
British tugowner SMS Towage Ltd, with headquarters in Hessle on Humberside, has recently purchased the former Ulupinar 14 from Sanmar, the Turkish tugowners and shipbuilders.
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NewsMacleod a unique ‘dual-draft’ ASD
Over the past few months a variety of RAmparts 3000 series of ASD tug designs by Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) has been described in these pages.
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NewsSL Gabon, an important delivery for Smit Lamnalco
During the last few days of December 2012 the new SL Gabon sailed from the Damen Shipyard in Galati, Romania, bound for Port Gentil in Gabon.
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NewsA brief look at Aiviq
The world’s media focused on Alaska at the beginning of the year when the Royal Dutch Shell ‘Arctic’-class drilling unit Kulluk was driven aground by violent weather on the southeast shoreline of nearby Sitkalidak Island on December 31, 2012.
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NewsBommel joins the expanding fleet of Herman Sr
The Zwijndrecht based tugowners and marine contractors Holding Herman Sr BV has been transformed over the past few months from the original family firm to become a major player in the marine civil engineering and dredging industries.
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NewsKootenay - compact and agile
Kootenay, an extremely powerful, agile and innovative ‘compact’ ASD tug of only 19.6m in length has entered service in British Columbia.
