In America, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently published their Safer Seas Digest 2020, a record of the 42 major incidents they investigated during t ..
Author: Alan Loynd
Alan Loynd is a master mariner with extensive seagoing and shore experience, especially in the areas of salvage and towage. He is the former General Manager of the renowned Hong Kong Salvage and Towage company. He now runs his own marine consultancy and was chairman of the International Tugmasters Association.
Once upon a time, Riviera Maritime Media organised a webinar to discuss, among other things, the fallout from the Ever Given case and its possible implications for the sa ..
An excellent video popped up on social media recently, showing a tug using indirect towing to assist a ship along a channel. The tug’s master was carefully controlling ..
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 ..
In recent weeks there have been a number of reports of new electronic propulsion systems and designs for tugs, so it seems like a good time for another look at battery-po ..
I long ago stopped believing almost anything I read in the press, and the recent blockage of the Suez Canal has spawned another round of questionable reporting. One BBC s ..
Some time ago, members of the Nautical Institute in Hong Kong were treated to an excellent talk by Paul Walton on the topic of damage to wire ropes. Drawing upon many yea ..
It was a clear evening as two Boluda tugs in the Spanish port of Cartagena unberthed a ship and proceeded through the harbour to their next job. On the way, they noticed ..
I was delighted recently to be informed I was considered an essential service provider as part of Hong Kong’s salvage response team and could get a priority booking for ..
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