Tugs & Salvage – Page 69
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NewsTOWLINES
Ocean Wave, the first of four ‘Ocean Class’ deepsea tugs for the Crowley Maritime Corporation was launched at the yard of Bollinger Marine Fabricators, LLC in Louisiana USA on 5 December (MJ – Sept 2011). This first vessel will be delivered during the next three months and be followed by ...
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NewsDamen to build two ‘Green’ tugs for Iskes
Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld has signed a contract with Iskes Towage & Salvage of Ijmuiden and Offshore Ship Designers (OSD) to construct two ‘Green’ tugs.
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NewsTaikoo is first of a new quartet for Hong Kong
In October of last year Cheoy Lee Shipyards handed over the first of a series of four powerful terminal support tugs to Hong Kong United Dockyards.
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NewsA new RAmparts 3300 for Ningbo Port
News regarding the use and construction of new Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) designed tugs of the ‘RAmparts’ class and its various derivatives is coming in thick and fast.
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NewsETV contract in Scotland extended to March
The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has awarded a new short term contract with J P Knight (Lowestoft) Ltd to enable the Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) Anglian Sovereign and Anglian Monarch to remain in service in Scottish waters until the end of March 2012.
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NewsA new patrol vessel/tug for Iceland
After a long and anxious wait, the Icelandic ‘Landhelgisgaeslan’ (Coastal Guard) (LHG) has taken delivery of its new multipurpose offshore patrol vessel Thor.
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NewsSunken boxship in shipping lane resolved
Following an agreement between St.Lucia Air & Seaports Authority and Resolve Salvage & Fire, Resolve has refloated the sunken container vessel Angeln then scuttled the vessel at a deep water reefing site.
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NewsSuccessful salvage of grounded bulker
Fairmount Marine’s tug Fairmount Alpine has successfully assisted in the refloating of the grounded MV Ikan Sepat just offshore Puerto Cortés, Honduras. The salvage operation was directed by T&T Bisso Salvage.
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NewsMacduff to supply tug design package to Turkey
Macduff Ship Design has been awarded a contract to provide a design package for a new 23m harbour tug to be built by Torgem Shipbuilding Ind & Trade AS, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey.
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NewsTOWLINES
Alphonse Letzer is being broken up after a long and varied career.The Panama Canal Authority has awarded a $158.3m contract to Spanish shipbuilders Astilleros Armon S.A. for the construction of 14 new tugs needed to handle the increase in traffic predicted when the current improvements to the waterway are complete. ...
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NewsDamen is building the ASD Tug 2009 for commercial use
The Damen ASD Tug 2009 is the smallest azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug ever produced by Damen.
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NewsGenoa tug fleet gains two powerful additions
On 8 October two new harbour tugs, Norvegia and Spagna, were formerly named prior to joining the local tug fleet of Rimorchiatori Riuniti Porto di Genova Srl.
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NewsA new Argus for Iskes Towage & Salvage
The rapid expansion of the Iskes Towage & Salvage tug fleet, based in the Netherlands at Ijmuiden, continues unabated with the recent addition of one new ASD tug and a second hand tractor tug.
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NewsProject Solutions group for Crowley
Crowley Maritime Corporation has established a new Project Solutions group that ties together the company’s experience and assets from across the group, including Jensen Maritime and Titan Salvage.
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NewsFairmount Marine keeping busy
Rotterdam based towage and salvage company Fairmount Marine BV, part of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Company, has reported the recent completion of two contracts.
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NewsNew Damen MultiCat for Delta Marine
Dutch shipbuilder Damen has delivered a MultiCat 2611 workboat, Whalsa Lass, to Shetland based Research Fishing Ltd, to be operated by Delta Marine Ltd.
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NewsFrench yard sends tugs to Algeria
Chantiers Piriou, the shipbuilding branch of Piriou at Concarneau in France, has delivered two 72 ton bollard pull harbour tugs to port authorities in both Arzew and Skikda, Algeria.
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NewsSalvors succeed in pumping oil from Rena
Despite bad weather and large sea swells intermittently stopping reclamation work onboard the stricken container vessel Rena off New Zealand, the ship is, at time of writing, still being worked on by salvors.
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NewsTwo ETVs gain temporary reprieve
Just days after the quartet of British Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) left their established stations around the UK coastline, two have been given an eleventh hour reprieve under a new temporary 90 day contract.
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NewsA new compact tug for a new Canadian company
The first tug for the newly formed company Samson Tug Boats, on the Fraser River near Vancouver BC, is now in service.
