Tugs & Salvage – Page 72
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NewsA tug with extra firepower for Kuwait
The installation of fire fighting equipment aboard harbour tugs is commonplace but the capacity of those installations rarely exceeds that necessary to comply with classification society Fi-Fi 1 notation, with a total pumping capacity of 2,400 cu/m/hr.
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NewsNorne gives Viking a powerful sister
On 2 April, Dutch tug owners Koerts International Towing Service (KITS), based in Delfziyl, took delivery of the new shallow draft anchor handling tug Norne.
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NewsThirty one ‘Rotor Tugs’ and counting
It is just twelve years since Dutch towage company Kotug introduced a series of four ‘Rotor Tugs’ to the ports of Rotterdam and Bremerhaven.
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NewsTug fleet finds fuel economy savings
Svitzer Tugs is expanding fuel efficiencies throughout its fleet by fitting Enginei fuel monitoring systems from Royston Limited.
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NewsFairmount sisters complete an epic 92 day tow
Fairmount Marine’s powerful deepsea tugs Fairmount Sherpa and Fairmount Summit have returned to their homeport of Rotterdam after successfully completing the delivery of the FPSO Skarv Idun from South Korea to Stord in Norway.
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NewsKees Muller is knighted by Queen Beatrix
Kees Muller, the founder of the Dutch towage and salvage specialist Multraship, has received a knighthood from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
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NewsDamen build four big ‘Cats’ for Lamnalco
Damen Shipyards is close to completing a series of four powerful terminal tugs for the Lamnalco Group.
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NewsGlobal reach for salvage and wreck removal
Rotterdam based SMIT Salvage had teams busy in Latin America last year, refloating a series of grounded vessels in the major river systems.
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NewsA closer look at the ‘Vortex’
Back in the November 2010 issue of MJ ‘Tugs & Towing’ included a report on the delivery of the Voith tractor tug Vortex to Solent Towage Ltd, the UK subsidiary of Østensjø Rederi AS of Haugesund in Norway.
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NewsTowlines MAR 11
Avra Towage BV of Rotterdam and Muller of Dordrecht have formed a joint venture with a view to increasing the scope of both companies. Muller operates a fleet of nine tugs and a large inventory of pushers and barges.
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NewsTowlines FEB11
UK based Marine and Towage Services provider the MTS Group Ltd has acquired the twin-screw seagoing tug Multratug 7.
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NewsFairplay sells its last traditional deepsea tug
Hamburg based Fairplay Towage has sold Fairplay IX, its last traditional deepsea tug to a Greek operator.
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NewsVan Oord purchases the ‘Pushbuster’ quartet
Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord BV has purchased the fleet of four Damen Pushbusters formerly operated by Damen Marine Contractors (DMS).
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NewsCapilano design for Shaver
Capilano Maritime Design Ltd, naval architects and designers based in North Vancouver, Canada have announced the completion of the design for a 24m (80 foot) ASD shiphandling tug for the Shaver Transportation Company based in Portland, Oregon, USA.
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News‘KL Sandefjord’ breaks bollard pull record
Although the massive and fast developing world of offshore operations is usually outside the scope of this regular feature, the recent delivery of the anchorhandling tug supply vessel KL Sandefjord is of special interest.
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NewsTowlines January 2011
The first of four new tugs ordered by Vancouver based Seaspan International, from Sanmar Denizcilik in Turkey, arrived at the owner’s base in North Vancouver in early January. Bearing the temporary name Seaspan Terminal III, the 28m ASD tug completed the long delivery voyage from Turkey after two months ...
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NewsDamen adds two new vessels to the ‘Stan Tug’ family
Over past months and years Maritime Journal has periodically reported on the progressive changes in design and modernization of the Damen Shipyards ‘Stan Tug’ series of tugs and workboats.
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NewsITS 2010 Papers are published
The complete Book of Papers and Discussions relating to ITS 2010, the 21st International Towage & Salvage Convention held in Vancouver in May of last year is now available.
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NewsKotug and SNRH give up the unequal struggle in Le Havre
Societe Nouvelle de Remorquage du Havre (SNRH), a subsidiary of Netherlands based Kotug, has given up it’s long battle to operate a tug service in the French container port of Le Havre in competition with the fleet operated by Boluda.
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NewsChina to build two rescue tugs with MAN propulsion systems
The China Rescue and Salvage Bureau (CRS) of the Chinese Ministry of Transport is to build two large rescue and salvage vessels for use in the provinces of BeiHai and DongHai.
