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Sanmar signs deal to provide major global operator with fully electric tug

Sanmar has signed a contract with major towage and marine services provider Svitzer to build a fully electric tug to be deployed in Scandinavia to provide services between Denmark and Sweden. The Denmark-headquartered global operator has ordered a …
Jan 20, 2025 / Curious

Sanmar delivers powerful escort tug to long-term client P&O Maritime Logistics

Sanmar has delivered a high-performance, technologically advanced escort tug to our long-term client P&O Maritime Logistics. Based on the exclusive-to-Sanmar, RAstar 2900SX design from Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd and known as …
Nov 12, 2024 / Curious

Sanmar Shipyards chooses Auramarine’s methanol supply system for the world’s first methanol fuelled tugs

Sanmar Shipyards, Turkey’s oldest tugboat company, has today announced that it has chosen Auramarine, the global provider of fuel supply and auxiliary systems for the marine, power and process industries, as its supplier for methanol supply systems …
Sep 5, 2024 / Curious

Sanmar delivering high-powered escort tug to expanding Italian operator

Sanmar has delivered a high-powered, heavy-duty, new-build tug designed for escort, ship-handling, and towage work to Italy-based operator Rimorchiatori Laziali as part of its on-going expansion outside the Mediterranean. Known as KOCAÇAY IX while …
Jul 9, 2024 / Vessels

Kotug Canada Holds Keel Laying Ceremony For 2XRASALVOR 4400 DFM Methanol Fuelled Tugs For The Trans Mountain Expansion Project

On 8 May 2024, KOTUG Canada Inc., a partnership between KOTUG International B.V. and Horizon Maritime Inc., held a keel laying ceremony for two RAsalvor 4400-DFM dual fuel methanol escort tugs – Robert Allan Ltd. design – to service the Trans …
May 14, 2024 / Curious

Sanmar delivers multi-purpose tug to Turkish port in final week of year

Sanmar has delivered a fifth tug to Mersin International Port, Turkiye’s largest container port, one of two of its best-selling multi-purpose Boğaçay Class tugboats delivered by the Turkish tug builder’s own delivery team during the final week of …
Feb 5, 2024 / Vessels

SAAM Towage receives from Sanmar shipyard first two electric tugs for its Canadian fleet

The first electric tugs for SAAM Towage’s fleet are ready to sail from the Port of Tuzla to Vancouver, Canada, where they will join the fleet operating in that country. SAAM Towage’s Engineering and Development Manager, Pablo Cáceres, noted that …
Dec 21, 2023 / Vessels

Sanmar delivers Canada’s first LNG-powered tug to HaiSea Marine

HAISEA KERMODE is Canada’s first LNG-fuelled tugboat and will soon be joined by its sister tug HAISEA WARRIOR to form a fleet of five with three Sanmar-built electric-powered emissions-free ElectRA harbour tugs. Based on the RAstar 4000 DF design …
Dec 12, 2023 / Curious

Third Sanmar-built Battery Electric Tug been delivered to HaiSea Marine

A third ‘Tug of the Future’ built by Sanmar Shipyards in Türkiye has been delivered to HaiSea Marine, Canada to join the most environmentally-friendly tugboat fleet in the world. HAISEA BRAVE will work in Vancouver alongside its sisters HAISEA WAMIS …
Dec 8, 2023 / Curious

SAAM Towage’s electric tugs pass final sea acceptance trials

The first electric tugs in SAAM Towage’s fleet, built by the Turkish shipyard Sanmar, passed the final sea acceptance trials and bollard pull tests in Istanbul’s Tuzla Bay. At full capacity, the new ElectRA 2300SX units, designed by Canada-based …
Nov 6, 2023 / Curious