The fleet of ultra green tugboats built for Canada’s HaiSea Marine will operate from a purpose-designed and built floating tugboat operations base. When we last reported on the project in August last year, its concrete foundation had just been poured. Now, as shown in the time-lapse video, the new floating facility has been named and blessed by the Haisla Nation, which is the majority partner in HaiSea Marine (with Seaspan ULC as minority partner) and is now ready to be transported up the...
As innovation in the towage industry continues to gather pace worldwide, AI is entering the picture, South Korean tugboat operator DRS Shipping has signed up to deploy the NAVISS Admin real-time remote ship navigation assistance and monitoring service recently launched by Ulsan-based AI innovator Seadronix.
Seadronix describes NAVISS (Ship Monitoring and Navigation System) as a game-changing development for tugboat fleet operations.
“For the first time,” it says, “AI-powered navigation assistance...
https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/coastal/seadronix-puts-ai-to-work-in-the-tugboat-industry/
Miramar, Fla., based ZF North America is to add the ZF AT 90 to its azimuth thruster (AT) line-up.
Becoming commercially available in December, The new, well-mounted, Z-drive thruster is compatible with a wide range of commercial vessels, supporting a maximum power of 1,978 kW/2,651 hp and increasing the power and thrust capabilities of the AT thruster product line.
Fully customizable to nearly any hull shape or vessel profile, the ZF AT 90 is one of the most flexible products on the market. It...
https://www.marinelog.com/technology/zf-unveils-its-newest-addition-azimuth-thruster/
In the bidding for the batch tugboat construction project of Sinopec Shengli Oilfield Branch, […]
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FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago.
In this week’s edition, from the April 1975 issue of American Shipper, FreightWaves looks back at the launch of a new type of ship.
The chrome yellow hull of “Seabulk Challenger” and her integrated barge...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-beginning-of-the-catamaran-tug
Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and NYK Group company Shin-Nippon Kaiyosha […]
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If you’re looking to be buy a used tugboat right now, you will likely have to look a lot harder than you would have last year. Coupeville, Wash., based shipbroker Marcon International has released its latest May 2022 Tug Boat Market Report with data from the firm’s extensive databases on tugs for sale in the U.S. and worldwide. As of May this year, Marcon reported 409 tugs officially on the market for sale out of 5,198 tracked. This is down 13.89% from one year ago and 31.03% from five years...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/used-tugboats-are-in-tight-supply-says-marcon/
As anyone who has been around a harbor knows, tugboats are special boats that assist other vessels into and out of port. Tugboats’ primary purpose is to help move larger ships by towing, pushing and guiding them. They help much larger ships dock at a berth or leave a berth. They may serve many other purposes as well, such as helping propel barges, oil platforms, log rafts, etc. Tugboats may also work as salvage boats and icebreakers. Some also have firefighting accessories to provide...
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Background
On April 18, 1898 the U.S. Navy acquired a tugboat that had been constructed in San Francisco a decade earlier by the Union Iron Works. This tugboat, along with another that had been built in Philadelphia, became part of the Navy’s fleet when the United States was preparing for war against Spain. The Oakland Tribune ran an article about them; its headline was “TUGBOATS IN UNCLE SAM’S SERVICE.”
About three months after being acquired by the Navy, the San Francisco-based tugboat was...
Conrad Shipyard, LLC has released more details about its recently awarded $16.9 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract.
Conrad says that the contract is for the design and construction of two CELRE Detroit Ice Class tugboats. The vessels will provide mobilization of various pieces of floating equipment on the St. Mary’s River, upper Great Lakes, and the Soo Harbor, as well as breaking ice up to 12-inches thick and performing ice scraping operations at the St. Mary’s Falls Canal.
“Conrad...