Port towing service providers Groupe Ocean of Canada, Sulnorte of Brazil, and CPT Towage of Chile have established a strategic cooperation network with the aim of enhancing port towing operations. The TugNetwork Team will offer better services and alternatives for customers and wide coverage as...
The Cooper Group of Companies recently took delivery of a new escort tug that will perform ship assist operations in the Port of Savannah in Georgia. Built by Blakeley BoatWorks of Mobile, Alabama, the tug has been named Angus R. Cooper II in honour of the Cooper Group’s longtime Chairman and Chief...
Saam Towage Canada formally named its two newest electric harbour tugs in a ceremony at the Port of Vancouver on Wednesday, April 10. The tugs were designed by local naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd (RAL). Each has a length of 23 metres, a moulded beam of 11.85 metres, a maximum draught of...
Harold Macmillan was supposedly once asked what the most troubling problem of his time as British Prime Minister was. “Events, my dear boy, events,” was his reply. I thought I had this week’s column nailed well in advance, but offshore is an industry especially susceptible to unexpected and hard to predict “events”. So, we must […]
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The recent bridge collapse incident in Baltimore in the US state of Maryland was a tragedy that I believe could and should have been avoided. The bridge was built in 1977 and as can be seen from media footage, it can hardly be described as robust although it was probably adequate in the 1970s. Dali...
Nemeca Z, a towage and salvage company operating out of Greece’s Port of Piraeus, recently took delivery of a new harbour tug from Turkish builder Med Marine. The Robert Allan Ltd-designed Dias Z has a length of 25.2 metres, a beam of 12 metres, a depth of 4.6 metres, a draught of 5.75 metres, and...
Bollinger Shipyards of Houma, Louisiana laid the keel of the US Navy’s tenth Navajo-class towing, salvage and rescue ship (T-ATS) in a ceremony on Wednesday, March 20. The future USNS Muscogee Creek Nation honours the self-governed Native American tribe located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. The...
In my last column I criticised the manning of a tug – not because the crew were female, but because there were only two of them. My friend Ron Burchett kindly responded and pointed out that the tugs involved in the job I was describing always travel in pairs for mutual support. This no doubt […]
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SVS Maritime, a company under Greek towage provider the Vernicos Scafi Group, has awarded Turkish shipbuilder Med Marine a contract for the construction of a new harbour tug. The tug will be designed by Canadian naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd. The vessel will have a length of 25.2 metres,...
Whilst the first big consolidator of this offshore upcycle was Tidewater, rapidly followed by ADNOC and AD Ports of Abu Dhabi, Europe is also experiencing a quiet wave of consolidation. Driving this is the biggest of the “Big Four” lowlands dredging and offshore companies, Boskalis. But whereas the gains in Tidewater have been open to […]
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