A symbolic keel-laying ceremony on the 17th of April 2013 in Gorinchem, The Netherlands, officially launched the construction phase of 14 Damen ASD Tugs for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). The series consist of two types, being 9 tugs of Damen’s recently launched 3212 model and 5 units of the well-known 2810 design, with 80 and [...]
The delivery voyages of the tugs “Svitzer Neso” and “Svitzer Nixie” (5.915 BHP and a GT of 630) from Singapore to Newcastle, Australia were contracted by Svitzer to Redwise Maritime Services. The vessels departed Singapore April 15th 2013 and were redelivered May 6th following a safe voyage that took the vessels through the Java-, Flores-, [...]
Multraship, a towage and salvage specialist has continued its fleet renewal programme with confirmation that it has bought two new Damen ASD 2810-type tugs with state-of-the-art FiFi 1 firefighting capabilities. The tugs, to be named Multratug 26 and Multratug 27, are building in Romania for delivery in June/July 2013. Contracts for the two tugs were [...]
The new build “ZP Bulldog” and her sister tug “ZP Boxer” are the latest fleet members of KOTUG in the Port of Hamburg and were christened by family of the two General Managers of Schleppreederei KOTUG GmbH. Mrs. Petra Peukert, wife of General Manager Andreas Peukert, christened tug boat “ZP Bulldog” end of March and [...]
Sanmar is constructing the world’s first Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) powered escort tugs. The vessels have been ordered by Buksér og Berging AS of Norway and will enter into service in late 2013. BB has signed a long term charter with Statoil ASA, the international energy company, and Gassco, the operator of the gas transportation [...]
Astrakhan Shipbuilding Production Association (ASPO) floated out yesterday the first two tug boats in Astrakhan. The vessels were ordered by OMS SHIPPING in the framework of Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB) project to set up a fleet for the support of marine operations in the Caspian Sea. Marat Jaukenov and Kanat Dosmukametov, Deputy Chairmen of the [...]
The Taiwan International Ports Corporation (TIPC)’s plan to purchase two new 5,200hp harbor tugs is part of Port of Kaohsiung’s overall strategy to enhance Asia’s regional transshipment, comprehensive logistics and vessel handling services and to expand port and harbor facilities to meet the needs of increasingly large cargo vessels. The new tugs will replace [...]
Jensen Maritime, Crowley Maritime Corp.’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering company, recently completed the designs of two new ASD tugs, based on the popular Valor tugboat design, and a 250’ x 70’ x 15’ 8” deck barge for customer Harley Marine, a Seattle-based marine transportation provider. The tugs, named Robert Franco and Ahbra Franco, [...]
Super tugs Fairmount Sherpa and Fairmount Expedition have towed the drilling rig Noble Max Smith from the Gulf to Brazil. Both tugs hooked-up in Pascagoula Mississippi, USA. For this job the Fairmount Sherpa and the Fairmount Expedition were mobilized to the departure location from there previous projects. Fairmount Sherpa had just delivered the rig Atwood [...]
Tugs Fairmount Summit and Fairmount Alpine have delivered the new build Noble Tamar jacket at location in the Tamar gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean. Both tugs towed the barge on which the jacket was loaded from the US to the field South-East of Cyprus. The 18,500 ton jacket was build in the US. In [...]
