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 […]
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Keels laid for Kotug Canada’s future methanol-fuelled tugs
Kotug Canada, a partnership between Netherlands-based towage company Kotug International and Canada’s Horizon Maritime, recently held a ceremony to mark the laying of the keel of two new escort tugs that will be powered by methanol propulsion systems. Designed by Canadian naval architecture firm...
World’s first electric pusher tug is powered by EST-Floatech batteries
The world’s first electric pusher tug, Kotug International’s E-Pusher Type M, is now, as we reported earlier, transporting cocoa beans for Cargill from the Port of Amsterdam, the largest cocoa import port in the world, to Cargill’s cocoa factory in Zaandam, the Netherlands. Inside the tug is a container with an EST-Floatech battery system that supplies all its energy needs.
EST-Floattech’s team developed the custom built containerized solution with its Octopus High Energy modules in a process...
Kotug inks frame agreement with Dutch builder for electric pushboat construction
Netherlands-based towage company Kotug International has entered into a framework agreement with local shipbuilder Padmos for the construction of a series of electric pusher tugs of three main models. The framework agreement follows the successful commissioning of E-Pusher 1 (pictured), Kotug’s new electric inland pusher tug. Since June 2023, E-Pusher 1 has been navigating the […]
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SEACOR Holdings sells US towage business
Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based SEACOR Holdings has confirmed the sale of its US harbour towing operations and assets from its Seabulk Towing Holdings subsidiary to two parties, E N Bisso and Son and Bay-Houston Towing Company. The E N Bisso transaction includes 12 harbour towing vessels across...
Kotug to acquire UAE-based OSV operator
Kotug International has entered into an agreement to acquire Seaways International, a UAE-based owner and operator of state-of-the-art offshore support vessels (OSVs) pro ..
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Work Boat World Offshore Vessel Charters Roundup – December 3, 2021
This latest string of vessel charter awards covers a broad scope encompassing subsea construction, extraction and storage, and maintenance and inspection works. Activity ..
Kotug to start towage operations in Gabon
Kotug International has been awarded a long-term contract by Perenco Oil and Gas Gabon for the provision of towage support for the latter’s operations off Port Gent ..
Kotug tests autonomous technology on tug in Port of Rotterdam
Kotug International, ship design company Rotortug, and Dutch tech start-up Captain AI have begun conducting trials of a tug fitted with an autonomous sailing system. The ..
Kotug, SPHI Marine to collaborate on newbuildings
Kotug International has entered into a technical partnership agreement with SPHI Marine of Brunei wherein the two companies will collaborate on the design, construction, ..