Netherlands-based Multraship Towage and Salvage christened its newest ASD tug in a ceremony in Terneuzen on Thursday, May 30. Multratug 35 is the first in a series of two tugs ordered by Multraship in June 2023 to perform deep-sea towage and salvage. The newbuild has a length of 32 metres and IMO...
Harbour Tugs and Operation
Boluda acquires UK towage company
Boluda Towage has entered into an agreement wherein it will acquire the business of UK operator SMS Towage. The acquisition involves taking over SMS Towage’s harbour and offshore towage services and marine operations, together with the management, office staff, crew, and fleet, all based in the...
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Partnership to develop hydrogen-powered tugs
Belgian marine engineering firm CMB.Tech has entered into a partnership with the aim of developing ASD tugs fitted with dual-fuel hydrogen propulsion systems. Each tug in the series will have a length of 28 metres and a bollard pull of 80 tonnes. The vessels will each feature four high-speed,...
COLUMN | Telling it like it isn’t [Tug Times]
Why do you build me up Buttercup, baby Just to let me down and mess me around The Foundations: Build Me Up Buttercup I recently came across a couple of very disappointing press releases that told me far less than I wanted to know. The first was from the normally excellent Kotug, and it announced […]
Russian Navy’s newest salvage and rescue tug floated out
Russian shipbuilder Astrakhan Ship Repair Plant, a division of state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation, recently launched a new tug ordered by the Russian Ministry of Defence. The future Mikhail Chekov is the seventh vessel under the Project 22870 series of tugs slated for the Russian Navy. The...
Russian government to invest RUB2 billion in upgrade of local shipyard
The Russian federal government will invest RUB2 billion (US$22 million) for the modernisation of local shipbuilder Onega Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant in Karelia. The upgrade works will entail the construction of new facilities and the replacement of some of the yard’s existing industrial...
AD Ports Group subsidiary begins trials of new electric tug
The Safeen Group, the maritime services arm of UAE port operator the AD Ports Group, has commenced trials of a recently acquired all-electric harbour tug. The 25-metre vessel will be deployed at the AD Ports Group’s Khalifa Port as part of Safeen’s marine services fleet. AD Ports said the new tug...
Guatemalan operator takes delivery of new harbour tug
Guatemala-based towage company Arrendadora Continental recently took delivery of a new harbour tug built by Med Marine of Turkey. Monterrico was designed by Canadian naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd was a compact, multi-purpose tug with a length of 25 metres, a bollard pull of 72 tonnes, a...
Port of Antwerp-Bruges’ future methanol-fuelled tug floated out
The Port of Antwerp-Bruges (PAB) in Belgium has confirmed that a new harbour tug that will utilise methanol as fuel has been launched into the water for the first time. Named Methatug, the vessel is an existing tug that had its engines converted into dual-fuel engines that can run on a mixture of...
VESSEL REVIEW | Jingang Lun 36 & Jingang Lun 37 – Intelligent escort tugs to operate in northern Chinese port waters
Tianjin Port Barge in northern China has expanded its towage and harbour services fleet with the recent acquisition of two new ASD tugs in a series built by compatriot Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard. Jingang Lun 36 and Jingang Lun 37 were built to a design developed by Canadian naval architecture firm...