Focus on Tug and Salvage Operations
TUG AND SALVAGE WEEK
Tugs and salvage vessels are again the focus on Baird Maritime for this week. We review a limited but nonetheless varied lineup of vessels entering service around the world, from an electric pushboat in the Netherlands, to offshore support tugs in Guyana, to harbour tugs in China and Germany just to name a few.
Tugs • Towboats • Pusher Tugs • ATBs • Salvage • Autonomy • Marine Environment
Our very own offshore industry columnist Hieronymous Bosch even opens this week with a closer look into a recently begun salvage operation on FSO Safer, an offshore processing ship that has become embroiled in the ongoing civil war in Yemen and is in danger of triggering a maritime environmental disaster. Fortunately, the UN and some private partners have started exerting the necessary effort to prevent this disaster from ever happening.
Continue to visit Baird Maritime over the coming days to be updated on the latest important developments in the global towage and salvage industry.
Vessel Reviews:
- HB Poraque – First in new series of inland pushboats for Hidrovias do Brasil
- Qinggang Tuo 1 – Hybrid tug delivered to China’s Qingdao Port
- VESSEL REFIT | Cöllni 1929 – Compact electric mooring boat in operation at Port of Hamburg
- ASCO-1 – Azerbaijani operator acquires locally-built tug
- E-Pusher 1 – Kotug’s new electric tug deployed for inland cargo transport
- VESSEL REFIT | Plotovod-716 – Russian inland tug to resume service following upgrade
- Madam Kalina – Tug pair to support Guyanese offshore oil sector
Features and Opinion:
– “The Houthis have been using the laden FSO as a pawn in their battle with Hadi and the Saudis.”
– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime’s anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations
News, Gear, and Book Reviews
- Consortium to build low-emission tugs for UK market
- GEAR | Egyptian yard orders azimuth thrusters for tug newbuildings
- Tug and Salvage Vessel News Roundup | June 8 – Dutch electric pushboat, future salvage vessels for Suez Canal and more
- One injured after fire ignites on containership in Persian Gulf off UAE
- Indonesian Navy landing ship suffers onboard fire; all 117 crew safe
- BOOK REVIEW | Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story
- Tug and Salvage Vessel News Roundup | May 30 – South African dredging tug, a Dutch renewables support catamaran and more
Recent Important Features:
– “The industry is locked in a cycle of the same type of incident occurring over and over, and nobody is taking action to prevent recurrence until there is a fatality or a serious material loss.”
– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime’s anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations
Remember to come back every day to see the latest news, opinion and vessel reviews!
Call for content!
Any news or views about the global tug and salvage sectors? Send it through to [email protected] ASAP (between now and June 16), so we can add it to this current edition of Tug and Salvage Week!
We are after:
- Vessels – Orders, new deliveries, under construction
- Gear – Latest innovations and technology in the tug and salvage sector
- Interviews – Owners, operators, builders, designers, etc.
- Reminiscences – Do you have any exciting, amusing or downright dangerous anecdotes from your time in the tug and salvage world? (example here)
- Other – Any other relevant news
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