Tugs & Salvage – Page 23

  • Smit Salvage can call on Boskalis-owned tugs (Photo-Peter Barker)
    News

    A whirlwind of work for Smit Salvage

    2021-11-25T12:15:00Z

    Smit Salvage has reported an exceptionally busy period including assisting vessels caught up in a hurricane in the US and grounded ships in West Africa.

  • The HaiSea Marine three vessel order is Corvus' 500th reference (Corvus Energy)
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    Tug battery order marks Corvus’ 500th project

    2021-11-25T11:32:00Z

    Corvus Energy has revealed that its order for batteries for three zero-emission tugs under construction at Sanmar Shipyards will be its 500th project order.

  • Svitzer will provide towage services to the Royal Australian Navy (Svitzer)
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    Australian naval contract heads to Svitzer

    2021-11-25T11:27:00Z

    Svitzer Australia has won a long-term contract to provide towage and associated services to the Royal Australian Navy.

  • 'Freyja' heads home to Iceland (Photo- Peter Barker)
    News

    TOWLINES

    2021-11-25T11:14:00Z

    The Icelandic Coast Guard’s emergency response fleet has been enhanced with the addition of a powerful anchor handling tug supply vessel previously employed in the offshore oil industry.

  • 'POSH Harvest' was retrofitted with autonomous navigation technology for the trials (ST Engineering)
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    ABS approval for autonomous tug project

    2021-10-27T14:31:00Z

    A quartet of developers have achieved an important regulatory step forward with their autonomous tug project.

  • Four Damen-built tugs were named simultaneously in Zeebrugge by Boluda (Boluda)
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    Boluda expands into Rostock

    2021-10-27T14:27:00Z

    Continuing expansion of its activities in northwest Europe, Boluda Towage has commenced towage operations in the German port of Rostock.

  • Sanmar and Corvus signed the MOU at ETA's annual meeting (Corvus)
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    Corvus Energy, Sanmar and hybrid tugs

    2021-10-27T14:23:00Z

    Corvus Energy and Sanmar Shipyards have announced a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding to develop a new range of zero-emission and hybrid tugs.

  • 'Rachael Allen' is equipped with Sea Machines' autonomous command and control system (Sea Machines)
    News

    Sea Machines equips Foss autonomous tug

    2021-10-27T14:14:00Z

    News that Sea Machines is supplying its autonomous command and control system for Foss Maritime’s tug Rachael Allen reveals some of the logic behind autonomous tug operations.

  • Svitzer tugs in action in Angola (Svitzer)
    News

    Svitzer celebrates ten years in Angola

    2021-10-27T14:09:00Z

    Svitzer’s marking of ten years of operation in Angola reveals the valuable methods the Denmark-based towage company employed to train local tug crews.

  • First of the pair for Turkey ‘Kurtarma 15’ (Sanmar)
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    Turkey receives its latest escort tug

    2021-10-27T14:02:00Z

    The Turkish Directorate General of Coastal Safety has taken delivery of the second of its latest emergency response, escort and assistance tugs from Sanmar Shipyards.

  • Starnav's latest quartet will feature Schottel thrusters (Schottel)
    News

    Schottel thrusters for Starnav quartet

    2021-10-27T13:57:00Z

    Brazilian towage group Starnav has selected Schottel RudderPropellers for a quartet of escort tugs to be built in Brazil.

  • LOF contracts protect both parties for instance during towing operations (Tsavliris)
    News

    Lloyds commits to support LOF contracts

    2021-10-27T13:48:00Z

    Lloyds has expressed its commitment to Lloyd’s Salvage Arbitration Branch (LSAB) and to oversee Lloyd’s Open Form contracts (LOF) after earlier suggesting LSAB services could be stopped.

  • Boluda tugs assisted 'Ever Ace' to its berth in Rotterdam (Kniesti-FleetMon)
    News

    TOWLINES

    2021-10-26T12:24:00Z

    Boluda Towage has provided berthing services to the world’s largest container ship making the first call in Europe on its maiden voyage.

  • Boluda has selected Rotortugs to compliment its Zeebrugge fleet (Boluda)
    News

    Delivery and order round-up

    2021-09-28T12:45:00Z

    With another busy month of deliveries and orders, we look at news involving 13 vessels, all with predominantly European involvement.

  • Corvus Energy will supply the energy storage system for 'eWolf' (Corvus)
    News

    Contracts signed for Crowley’s eWolf tug

    2021-09-28T12:44:00Z

    Details have been announced of propulsion and deck machinery packages for Crowley’s eWolf destined to be the US’s first battery-powered harbour tug./p>

  • 'SD Honour' is a recent product of Vallianz subsidiary PT United Sindo Perkasa (Kotug)
    News

    Order success for Vallianz

    2021-09-28T12:40:00Z

    Following last month’s news of development of an all-electric tug Vallianz is making more waves in the region’s ship building sector following a tug order for Taiwan principles.

  • Kotug Australia has taken over operations at Port Hedland (Kotug)
    News

    Kotug takes over towage at Port Hedland

    2021-09-28T12:32:00Z

    Kotug Australia Pty Ltd and Westug Pty Ltd have agreed to ‘re-shape’ towage services for Pilbara Marine in Port Hedland, Western Australia.

  • 'Med Antares' is one of two similar tugs operating for MSC in Portugal (Sanmar)
    News

    MedTug – expanding tug fleet for MSC

    2021-09-27T13:11:00Z

    The arrival of a second Sanmar-built tug to MedTug SA for operation at Sines, Portugal has highlighted the choices for shipowners when selecting a tug operator.

  • Three Uzmar-built tugs will be powered by Steerprop thrusters (Steerprop)
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    Steerprop bags three vessel order with Uzmar

    2021-09-27T13:00:00Z

    Finnish propulsion manufacturer Steerprop has won a significant order to supply six of its azimuth propulsion units to a trio of tugs under construction at Turkey’s Uzmar Shipyards.

  • Hidrovias's pusher tugs operate in challenging shallow water locations (Wartsila)
    News

    Wärtsilä supporting pusher tugs in Brazil

    2021-09-27T12:57:00Z

    Technology group Wärtsilä has agreed a contract to support two Brazilian river tugs and follows a similar contract with the operator signed in 2017 covering eight vessels in Paraguay.