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KOTUG Canada Provides First State-of-the-Art Dual Fuel Methanol Escort Tugs for Trans Mountain’s Expanded Operations on Canada’s West Coast

In 2021, after a rigorous and competitive process, Trans Mountain, on behalf of shippers for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP), awarded KOTUG Canada Inc. a long-term contract to provide enhanced escort towage services for tankers that load …

Jul 6, 2023 / Curious

Sanmar Shipyards holds naming ceremonies for five tugboats

Sanmar Shipyards has held naming ceremonies over two consecutive days for five tugboats. 2 LNG-fuelled escort tugs are the most powerful tugboats that Sanmar has built to date, while the other 3 of the tugs are the first in the game-changing …

Mar 14, 2023 / Curious

Wärtsilä chosen to power British Columbia’s most environmentally advanced escort tugs

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply the main engines and LNG fuel gas supply systems for two new LNG-fuelled escort tugs being built for Canada’s HaiSea Marine, a joint venture between the Haisla Nation and Seaspan Marine Transportation. The …

Jun 21, 2021 / Vessels

Wärtsilä signs maintenance agreement to support MSCL’s tug operations

The technology group Wärtsilä has signed an optimised maintenance agreement with Marine Service Company Ltd (MSCL), a Saudi Arabian tug operator. It is the first-ever such agreement that Wärtsilä has signed with a marine operator in Saudi Arabia. …

Feb 28, 2019 / Vessels

Alfons Håkans has ordered two escort tugs to operate in the Baltic Sea

The family-owned company, Alfons Håkans, a major towage operator with decades of regional expertise in Northern Baltic Sea region, has signed a contract about two ice-class 67-ton bollard pull ASD tugs with Sanmar shipyard in Turkey. Technical …

Feb 27, 2019 / Vessels