Tugs & Salvage – Page 68

  • The 80 tonnes bollard pull Tanok will be providing offshore assistance in Dos Bocas for the Mexican National Oil Company PEMEX.
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    Tanok a rapid Damen delivery to Intertug

    21/05/2012

    The Colombian tug operator Intertug S A, established in 1993, has taken delivery of the Tanok, an ASD Tug 3213 from Damen Shipyards.

  • Barracuda tows Steel Queen to Gydnia for repairs.
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    'Steel Queen' Hits Rock Bottom

    21/05/2012

    The Terneuzen based independent towage and salvage company Multraship successfully refloated the 2,540gt Dutch cargo vessel Steel Queen recently following its grounding on a rocky shoal outside the Swedish port of Oxelosund. The Steel Queen was loaded with 3,157 tons of steel which had to be partially discharged into a ...

  • The Westin  Bayshore Hotel, the venue for ITS 2010, is located on the Vancouver waterfront overlooking Stanley Park and North Vancouver.
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    Exceptional ITS Convention set for Vancouver

    21/05/2012

    The city of Vancouver will host the 21st International Tug & Salvage Convention and Exhibition on 17 through 21 May this year, for the first time in 37 years.

  • A bucket grab crane mounted on Mistley Marine's flat top barge Spartacus salvages the rocket remains.
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    WW2 rocket salvaged after 68 years in mud

    10/05/2012

    At a routine meeting about leisure boating in Harwich Haven, one of the final questions asked was whether there were any dangers to navigation.

  • Damen has sold S Walsh & Sons their first tug for use on the river Thames.
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    TOWLINES

    02/05/2012

    Damen Shipyards have delivered a Stan Tug 1205 to UK recycling and construction company S Walsh & Sons, based in Essex. The company purchased the tug, named SW Essex, as part of their strategy to transport more cargo by water than by road. In the near future, the total transport ...

  • Veerhaven III was designed to navigate with a total of six push barges on the inland waterway route Rotterdam Europoort to and from Duisburg.
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    Powerful pusher tug from Gebr. Kooiman BV

    02/05/2012

    Scheepswerf Gebr. Kooiman BV in the Netherlands has delivered a powerful new pusher tug for ThyssenKrupp Veerhaven BV, also in the Netherlands. The boat was delivered twelve months after the keel laying.

  • The EDDY concept is for a true double ended shiphandling tug with a fully steerable propulsion unit at each end.
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    Is the Industry ready for EDDY?

    01/05/2012

    As correspondent for towage industry matters for several decades, I have reported on countless new concepts that appear among the designs for shiphandling tugs and equipment.

  • Fairplay 22 was one of a series of tug built for use offshore and harbour operations. (Photo courtesy Hans Hoffmann)
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    Far reaching report on the Fairplay 22 accident

    30/04/2012

    A detailed and far reaching report on the tragic accident involving the tug Fairplay 22 on 11 November 2010 has been published by the Dutch Safety Board.

  • Signet Weatherly is one of three new tugs to enter service in just a couple of months.
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    A flock of three new tugs for Signet

    30/04/2012

    In recent months the Signet Maritime Corporation of Houston, Texas USA has taken delivery of three new ASD tugs, all from the drawing boards of Robert Allan Ltd (RAL).

  • E-KOTUG RT Adriaan is the first Hybrid tug to enter service in Europe.
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    KOTUG puts the first European ‘Hybrid’ into service

    27/04/2012

    Europe’s first hybrid shiphandling tug RT Adriaan has entered service with the KOTUG fleet in Rotterdam.

  • SD Ranger and its two sisters were delivered to KOTUG two weeks after signing the order.
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    Damen delivers an ASD trio in two weeks

    27/04/2012

    KOTUG will shortly be putting three Damen ASD 2810 tugs into operation just two weeks after signing the order.

  • A SMIT salvage team works alongside its Italian partners Fratelli Neri to remove HFO and diesel from the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia. Photo: SMIT
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    Salvage teams kept busy in early 2012

    26/04/2012

    SMIT Salvage teams had a busy start to 2012 in South America, responding to two casualties in Argentina, both on the Parana River.

  • The Port of Barcelona provides a perfect backdrop for ITS 2012.
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    ITS aims to bring its best to Barcelona

    25/04/2012

    Now in its 44th year, the International Tug, Salvage & OSV Convention returns to Spain in 2012 after an absence of 10 years.

  • The Signet Constellation and Signet Stars & Stripes are classed for harbour, escort and emergency towing duties.
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    Powerful twin tugs make Texas debut

    16/04/2012

    The Signet Constellation and Signet Stars & Stripes are the latest development in Robert Allan Ltd’s RAstar series of tugs.

  • A new branch of SMS Towage Ltd has stationed the ASD tug Trueman in Newport, South Wales. Photo courtesy of Peter Elsom – SMS
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    Towlines

    23/03/2012

    SMS Towage Limited, based in Hessle on HumbersideUK, has moved into the Bristol Channel with a new subsidiary SMS Towage (Bristol Channel) Ltd and is currently offering towage services in the South Wales ports of Newport, Cardiff and Barry. The 22.6m ASD tug Trueman, a tug of 32 tonnes bollard ...

  • The new spinning machinery makes the production of nozzles much easier and gives an improved end product, because there is only a single weld seam on the inner side of the nozzle.
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    DMC develops single weld nozzle spinning

    23/03/2012

    Damen Marine Components (DMC) has developed a pioneering nozzle production method bases on a single weld seam on the inner side of the nozzle.

  • The EL Moundjid is one of three well equipped ETVs for the Algerian Government. Photo courtesy of Tommy Briceland
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    First of three Algerian ETVs is delivered

    22/03/2012

    EL Moundjid, the first of three ‘state of the art’ Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs), has been handed over to the Algerian Government by STX OSV Braatvaag in Norway.

  • Hunter, the latest addition to the Svendborg fleet, is being progressively modernised.
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    Hunter clocks up the miles for Svendborg

    22/03/2012

    The Danish tug owner Rederiet Junior ApS, a fully autonomous subsidiary of Svendborg Bugser A/S, is delighted with the twin screw tug Hunter they purchased in January 2011.

  • Svitzer Nereid is one of ten escort tugs of the same type built by the Quingdao shipyard in China.
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    Extensive newbuild programme for Svitzer

    21/03/2012

    International towage provider Svitzer continues to maintain a large ongoing construction programme in order to replace outdated tonnage and support new contracts.

  • AOS Power is one of a growing breed of versatile multipurpose offshore support tugs.
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    The first RAmpage 4500 enters service

    21/03/2012

    AOS Power, a highly versatile offshore support tug, is now in service with its owners the Atlantic Maritime Group, Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates.