Vessel Launch: Hepworth complete Afon Las for use in the Caspian

Afon Las is a compact 25m shall draft tug built to Ice class 1B.

On Saturday 7 August the shallow draft, twin screw tug Afon Las left the UK’s River Humber bound for the Caspian Sea, via St Petersburg and the Russian inland waterways.

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