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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

Sanmar Shipyards delivered compact workhorse tug to expanding Danish port

Sanmar Shipyards has delivered a powerful compact workhorse harbour tug to the Port of Hirtshals in Denmark where it will primarily assist increasingly large modern ferries to and from the quay in the port’s often notoriously windy conditions. …
Sep 14, 2023 / Curious

Damen builds a series of harbour tugs for Swedish FMV

The Defence Materiel Administration of Sweden ordered four ice-class tugs from Damen Shipyards with options four two extra, that will be equipped with numerous options. A heavy duty crane, bow thrusters, an extra strong aft winch and more will be …
Jun 10, 2022 / Vessels

Med Marine has delivered the new Robert Allan Ltd. design RAstar 4200 Mwokozi II to Kenya Port Authority

Robert Allan Ltd. has announced that Kenya Port Authority’s new RAstar 4200, Mwokozi II, has been delivered to her homeport of Mombasa on January 10, 2022.The Mwokozi II is a custom design 42-metre, 120 tonne bollard pull salvage and harbour tug …
Mar 15, 2022 / Vessels

SAFEEN Group Reinforces Harbour Fleet with Addition of ‘SEMAIH’ Harbour Tug

SAFEEN Group, the marine arm of AD Ports Group, has announced the acquisition of SEMAIH, a RAmparts 2200 – Sanmar ‘SIRAPINAR’ Series ASD Harbour Tug, to expand and bolster its towage service capabilities.Powered by a Caterpillar 3512C / Tier II “C” …
Mar 2, 2022 / Curious

First Remote Marine Survey Conducted For Harbour Tug In Singapore

Ready for a “New Normal” in the wake of COVID-19Bureau Veritas Marine Singapore (BV), in collaboration with PSA Marine (Pte) Ltd (PSA Marine), has successfully completed a remote marine survey for ‘PSA Aspen’, an LNG dual fuel PSA Marine harbour tug. …
Jun 23, 2020 / Curious

Initial sea trials successfully completed by Wärtsilä & PSA Marine’s ground-breaking ‘IntelliTug’ project

Joint project between Wärtsilä and PSA Marine sees first commercial Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (MASS) trialled in Port of Singapore waters.IntelliTug’s system comprises an integrated suite of hardware and intelligent software to enable …
Mar 13, 2020 / Curious

Med Marine: Turkish-built tug equipped with SCHOTTEL bestseller

SCHOTTEL has secured a contract with Turkish shipbuilder Med Marine to provide propulsion units for a newly built escort and harbour tug. The Robert-Allan-designed tugboat is under construction at the Ereğli Shipyard in Northern Turkey. It will be …
Feb 24, 2020 / Curious

Chinese harbour tug features SCHOTTEL Rudderpropellers

The German propulsion expert SCHOTTEL has recently secured a contract to provide propulsion units for a newly built harbour tug under construction at Tongfang Jiangxin Shipbuilding in China. This new tugboat, ordered by the Taizhou Maritime Safety …
Feb 18, 2020 / Curious

Wärtsilä and PSA Marine achieve a breakthrough in its IntelliTug project

The technology group Wärtsilä, in collaboration with PSA Marine, has achieved a breakthrough in its IntelliTug project. Following the successful installation of a first-of-its-kind Dynamic Positioning (DP) system onboard the harbour tug ‘PSA …
Nov 7, 2019 / Curious