McAllister Towing has announced the arrival of the 93’x38′ tug Eileen McAllister, the 34th tractor tug in McAllister’s fleet.
The new tug is powered by 3516E Tier 4 Caterpillar engines with twin Schottel SRP 490 Z-drive units. Packed into the hull is 6,770 hp. She achieved over 84 metric tons during her ABS bollard pull certification. The Eileen McAllister will soon join her sister vessel, the Tate McAllister, as the most powerful tug in Port Everglades, Fla.
Combining her eco-friendly CAT...
Washburn & Doughty, East Boothbay, Maine, is building at least two new 86’x35’x15’10”, Tier 4, ASD ship assist/escort, Z-drive tugs for Moran Towing Corp., New Canaan, Conn. The contract includes options to build up to 10 new tugs. (The shipyard has built 38 tugs for Moran since September 1999.)
Jensen Maritime Consultants, Seattle, is doing the design work for the new tugs. “There are two under contract,” said Jonathan Parrott, senior naval architect at Jensen Maritime, “and options for...
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Jensen Maritime Consultants, the Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering subsidiary of Crowley Maritime Corp., has been awarded the contract to design 86’x36’x15’10” ship assist and escort tugboats for Moran Towing Corp., a New Canaan, Conn., tug-and-barge operator on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts. The tugs will be constructed at Washburn & Doughty Shipyard, East Boothbay, Maine, and will be the latest in a series of seven Jensen-designed tugs for Moran over the past decade.
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