New Zealand port operator Ports of Auckland (POAL) has taken delivery of a new electric-powered, reversed stern drive (RSD) tug built by Damen Song Cam Shipyard in Vietna ..
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Three new tugs have been delivered to two separate port operators in New Zealand. One tug is notable for having all-electric propulsion and will be operated at one of the ..
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With apologies to Philip K. Dick, whose dystopian novel spawned the excellent film Blade Runner, I suppose there must be an android somewhere that thinks electric tugs ar ..
Damen Shipyards Group has reached a major milestone in the construction of its first fully-electric reversed stern drive tug. Named Sparky, the RSD-E Tug 2513 ship handling tug is under construction for New Zealand’s Ports of Auckland at the Damen Song Cam Shipyard in Vietnam.
The yard recently installed the tug’s batteries —all 2,240 of them. With a total of 2,784 kWh of battery capacity, Sparky will be able carry out two or more berthing/unberthing operations on a single charge, delivering up...
Damen Song Cam Shipyards in Vietnam laid the keel for a new fully electric tug on Tuesday, July 7. The 25- by 13-metre, 70-tonne bollard pull tug, which will be named ..