For Damen Shipyards, Bosch Rexroth developed and engineered both the hydraulic and electrical systems for the winches of a new tugboat. The Damen ASD Tug 3212 is a newly designed tugboat for assistance activities at offshore LNG and oil terminals and open sea loading stations for the mining industry. The tug has 85 t Bollard [...]
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ADPC’s Al Fenci tugboat navigates her way along Mina Zayed channel after successfully passing all tests. The tugboat, built at the Grandweld yard in Dubai, will be joined by her sister tug, Al Durrah, also built at the same yard. Both will work at Khalifa Port. ADPC’s full complement of working craft, including the pilot [...]
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Jensen Maritime Consultants, a Crowley Maritime Corporation company, recently began designing a new vessel, theEric M. McAllister, a 5,150 horsepower, twin Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) tugboat, for McAllister Towing. This vessel, which will be built by Senesco Marine LLC of North Kingstown, R.I., will be the tenth Jensen-designed and first Tier 3 tugboat in McAllister’s [...]
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The Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) in South Africa has ordered a Pilot Cutter 2706 and its fifth Stan Tug 2006 with Damen Shipyards Cape Town for operations in the expanding Port of Saldanha (South Africa). Both vessels have been specifically designed for the South African market. The Pilot Cutter 2706 will be delivered in [...]
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The Rotterdam based shipping company Rotortug and ASD Ship Design from Alblasserdam have invented a revolutionary tugboat technology (‘tugnology’) to prevent towline failures from chafing against a tugboats fixed towing point. The invention of Mr. Ton Kooren (Rotortug) and Mr. Arie Aalbers (ASD Ship Design), the so called azimuth friction free towing point, is presented [...]
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An incident involving a fire has occurred 25 nautical miles offshore on board of tugboat TUG 53. This incident occurred on the 29th of April 2012 at approximately 16:45. Unfortunately, this incident resulted in seven fatalities and four injuries, three of them have already been discharged from the hospital. The emergency response team responded immediately [...]
Two NYK Group companies — tugboat operator Wing Maritime Service Corporation (WMS) and tugboat builder Keihin Dock Co. Ltd. — have teamed with Niigata Power Systems to construct an environment-friendly tugboat. The new tugboat will feature the hybrid propulsion system that Niigata Power Systems has developed and manufactures, and will be the first tugboat in [...]
The christening ceremony of the tugboat Ken Boothe Sr. and the barge Lakes Contender, the first articulated barge-tug combination to be built in Erie since 1972, was held on Tuesday afternoon at the bayfront shipyard, Erie Times reports. Ken Boothe Sr tugboat, named after the late president of the Erie shipbuilding company, encompasses 135-feet of [...]
The proven and classified construction of Europe’s first hybrid tugboat has been developed! As from November 2011 Rotor®Tug RT Adriaan, operating in the Port of Rotterdam, has been retrofitted with a XeroPoint Hybrid Propulsion System of AKA Canada. As from March, 6th 2012, the conversion is completed and RT Adriaan rejoined the KOTUG fleet like [...]
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On March 6th, at 11:00am of, the steel-cutting ceremony for 38m Multi-function Tugboat YX3185 built for CNPC South-East Asia Pipeline Company Limited was held in Yuexin’s Sub-module Factory. This is the third ASD tug that Yuexin built for CNPC South-East Asia Pipeline Company Limited, and is to be delivered in May of 2013. The vessel is [...]
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