Tag: tugboats

The Panama Canal Authority ordered ten hybrid tractor tugboats from European shipbuilder, Astilleros Armón, with options for another 10 similar vessels, and Corvus Energy will supply the battery systems for the hybrid-electric vessels.

Fairplay Towage Group has placed an order with Damen Shipyards for the delivery of two further tugboats, one of which is of the ASD Tug 2813 design, the other one being a tug fitted with azimuth stern drives and a bollard pull of 60 tonnes.

The two new azimuth stern drive (ASD) 70-ton bollard pull tugboats will be delivered by Brazilian shipyard Rio Maguari in 2024.

The biofuel being used in this trial is Neste RD, which is being imported to Japan through a contract that Itochu Corporation has signed with the Neste OYJ Group

Three test trials are planned to take place by July.

KM is also supplying full sets of deck machinery for this project.

Supply agreement sets a new standard among mtu-powered tugboats in Latin America

The deal could lead to the delivery of fuel cell modules with a combined capacity of up to 200 megawatts.

The first of the four tugboats is scheduled to enter service in 2022.

To service the customers in the two ports, Svitzer is deploying two powerful ASD tugs to each port

Known as TundRA ll while under construction at Sanmar’s state-of-the-art Altinova Shipyard in Turkey

The newbuild 85-tonnes bollard pull tugs will be delivered by Damen in December 2020.