Now in service with SAAM Towage Canada, the SAAM Volta and Chief Dan Georgeare the first battery electric tugs built specifically to operate in Vancouver, B.C. Built to Robert Allan Ltd’s ElectRA 2300-SX design by Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards, the tugs mark a milestone in the Port of Vancouver’s goal of becoming the world’s most sustainable port as well as SAAM Towage’s leadership in the drive to the decarbonization of harbour operations.
Optimized for emissions-free ship-docking operations in...
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...
It was heartening to read a recent report about British Columbia’s first all-female tug crew, who are also believed to be the first in the history of SAAM Towage. Captain Hailey McIntyre and deckhand Ocean Rutherford sailed the tug Apache from Prince Rupert to Stewart, near the Alaskan border – a...
Tug deliveries have been completed to Kuwait’s Shuwaikh Port and the Orkney Islands as construction is underway on a future salvage and rescue ship for the US Navy. A C ..
Saam Towage has taken delivery of a new ASD harbour tug for its operations in Canada. The Bureau Veritas-classed Saam James Point was built by Damen Song Cam Shipyard in ..
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A well-known Turkish shipyard scores a hat trick with three successive deliveries in as many weeks to customers in home waters and farther west in Latin America while a D ..
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Saam Towage Canada has completed the purchase of British Columbia-based Standard Towing and Davies Tugboat to expand its operations on Canada’s western coast. The a ..
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SAAM Towage Canada and Coast Tsimshian Enterprises, a 100 per cent indigenous-owned collaborative undertaking between Lax Kw’alaams and Metlakatla First Nation, hav ..
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