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TUG & SALVAGE WEEK
For the past three or four years the Baird Maritime portal has seemingly featured news about newly launched tugs almost daily. Interestingly, the tug sector is apparently the most global of all sectors of the wider maritime market.
Tugs are being delivered from South-East Asia and Turkey to South America, Africa and Australasia. The USA, thanks to the Jones Act, is probably the only significant country to not be involved in the global tug trade.
Tugs are generally becoming more powerful, more compact and more manoeuvrable. They are also becoming ever more economical and less polluting. They require smaller crews. We are even seeing the introduction of hybrid and all-electric tugs.
The tug market remains very strong but it is also very innovative. It is an exciting sector of our industry.
Tugs • Towboats • Salvage • Autonomy • Marine Environment
Remember to come back every day to see the latest news, opinion and vessel reviews!
Vessel Reviews:
- Tareef 1 – Versatile, compact ASD tug with features for ship-handling, coastal towing and other towing duties
- Boğaçay XXXVIII – Sanmar adds some flower power to internal fleet
- Svitzer Port Said 1 & Svitzer Port Said 2 – Multi-purpose tug pair for rapidly growing Port Said
- Yong Gang Xiao Tuo 60 – Ningbo-Zhoushan Port adds dual fuel escort tug to fleet
- Magni – Iceland’s tug fleet gets a boost with powerful new harbour tug
- PSA Taurus – Singapore’s busy PSA Marine takes on another harbour tug
Features and Opinion:
COLUMN | Mr. Bean – saint or sinner? [Tug Times]
– “If we have young people who are not prepared to drag themselves away from their mobile telephones long enough to learn their jobs, we should get rid of them, not pander to the little blighters.”
– by Alan Loynd
COLUMN | Tackling unacceptable “customs of the port” [Grey Power]
– “An officer recounts how people on a harbour tug, refused gifts, declined to assist the ship alongside.”
– by Michael Grey
FEATURE | RAL’s LNG-powered pushboats set to debut next year
– “We saw an important growth in the number of vessels in the inland waterway systems in South America, especially in the Amazon River System, an environmentally sensitive area.”
– by Nelson E Dela Cruz
COLUMN | Modified and made-to-fit [Fishing for a Living]
– “In the most extreme case of this, a nation required that tugs over ten tonnes were required to have engineers. Everyone agreed that with modern engines this was not necessary on a 50-foot tug, but the regulation persisted.”
– by Alan Haig-Brown
REMINISCENCES | Rope’s end – Ship lines over time
– “We learned some of its more curious properties when we were using it as a towrope to the after tug, which managed to get itself stuck across the lock we were moving out of.”
– by Michael Grey
News and Gear:
- Foss Maritime christens first of four low-emission tugs
- London construction company orders Damen pusher tug
- Abu Dhabi Ports, Robert Allan Ltd to develop world’s first unmanned commercial tugs
- Asya Port orders tug from Med Marine
- Romanian salvage teams raise wreck of capsized sheep carrier
- Rimorchiatori Riuniti takes delivery of Sanmar azimuth tractor tug
- Vane Brothers welcomes second pushboat in series
Recent Important Features:
COLUMN | New year predictions – the future of the salvage industry [Tug Times]
– “Mergers and acquisitions may well continue, but I believe the demise of the salvage industry is unlikely.”
– by Alan Loynd
COLUMN | Ropes continue to evolve [Tug Times]
– “Now a rope manufacturer in Europe has come up with a design that almost eliminates recoil. The company appears to be concentrating on mooring ropes at this stage, but I expect it is only a matter of time before towlines can offer the same benefits.”
– by Alan Loynd
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 March 6), 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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