Tug and Salvage Vessel News Roundup | August 24 – Deliveries to Canada and UAE plus Danish and Greek newbuilding orders

Deliveries include an electric tug for a Canadian LNG terminal support company and a shallow-draught multi-role vessel for a UAE port operator. Orders have meanwhile been placed for a harbour tug for operation in Greece and a hybrid methanol vessel to fulfill ship assist duties at the Swedish port of Gothenburg.

Canada’s HaiSea Marine welcomes second electric tug in series

Canadian towage company HaiSea Marine has taken delivery of the second in a new series of three all-electric tugs designed by naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd (RAL).

As with earlier sister HaiSea Wamis, HaiSea Wee’git has a length of 28.4 metres, a moulded beam of 13.4 metres, and a 5,288kWh battery. The battery has shore charging capability and drives two Schottel 2,100kW drives connected to 2,600mm four-bladed propellers to deliver a bollard pull of 70 tonnes.

Other key features are two firefighting monitors mounted just outside the wheelhouse and a knuckle boom crane fitted on the aft deck.

UAE’s Safeen acquires multi-role tug

UAE company the Safeen Group has taken delivery of a new multi-role tug built by Damen Shipyards Gorinchem in the Netherlands.

The 32-metre Al Mirfa will be used primarily for buoy maintenance, towing, and firefighting.

The tug’s equipment includes a heavy duty crane, a waterfall winch, towing pins, a stern roller, and Fifi1 equipment. The propulsion meanwhile delivers a bollard pull of over 45 tonnes.

Al Mirfa will be operated in both port and offshore waters.

Turkish yard secures tug order from Greek operator

Turkish shipyard Med Marine has been contracted to build a new harbour tug for Greek towage operator Vernicos Scafi.

The Robert Allan Ltd-designed vessel will have a length of 25 metres, a beam of 12 metres, a draught of 5.75 metres, and accommodations for seven crewmembers. Two MTU 16V4000M63 2,000kW engines will deliver a bollard pull of 70 tonnes and a speed of 11 knots.

The tug will be used primarily for ship assist duties.

Svitzer inks design agreement for methanol-fuelled tug

Danish towage operator Svitzer and naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd have entered into an agreement to design a tug to be fitted with methanol hybrid fuel cell propulsion.

The vessel will utilise a combination of batteries, fuel cells, and generators and is designed to operate completely free of diesel fuel.

The tug will be operated out of the Port of Gothenburg in Sweden beginning in the second half of 2025.