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Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards has delivered two new ASD icebreaking and escort tugs in a series to Finnish operator Alfons Hakans. The Robert Allan Ltd-designed, Bureau Ver ..
Finnish operator Alfons Håkans has taken delivery of the second in a series of two icebreaking and escort tugs ordered from Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards. Like sister ..
Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards has delivered a new icebreaking and escort tug to Finnish operator Alfons Håkans. Sanmar said the Robert Allan Ltd-designed Selene is the ..
Finland’s Aker Arctic has successfully completed full-scale ice trials for the self-propelled, detachable icebreaking bow Saimaa and pusher tug Calypso. The test ..
Tug companies in the Far East might be expected to recoil in horror at a recent report published by the US National Bureau of Economic Research. Written by academics at ..
Sanmar built this azimuth stern drive (ASD) tug to Robert Allan’s TundRA 3200 design at its Altinova Shipyard in Turkey, says an article published in Riviera Maritime Media.
Capacity and efficiencySanmar said it has a strengthened hull to meet Ice Class 1A rules and should achieve 65 tonnes of bollard pull. It will be classed by Bureau Veritas as an escort tug...
Alfons Håkans has successfully refloated the barge Trias on late Sunday evening 19 January 2020. The barge was aground on protected Natura 2000 area on Latvian shore.
Estonian Raduga Shipping’s barge Trias (overall length 101 m. & breadth 19 m.) was under tow when the towline parted during poor weather on 31 December 2019. Consequently, the barge drifted aground near Ventspils, Latvia.
Preparations for salvage, led by Salvage Master Pekka Arasola, started immediately on 5 January 2020 after...