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Damen Shipyards and Boluda Towage to cooperate on bringing zero-emissions tugs to Europe

Damen Shipyards and Boluda Towage have joined forces to bring zero-emissions tugs to Europe. In a groundbreaking move the two organisations, which have nearly 200 years of tugboat experience between them, aim to launch the first newbuild methanol tug …
May 25, 2023 / Curious

Boluda Maritime Corporation strengthens its partnership with Western Africa

Boluda Corporación Marítima, the world’s leading maritime towing company, strengthens its partnership with Togo, highlighting its capacity for expansion, growth and internationalisation. The main purpose of this meeting was to evaluate the …
May 19, 2023 / Curious

Boluda Towage becomes the world’s leading maritime company in the towage industry

Boluda Corporación Marítima, through its Boluda Towage division, has reached an agreement to acquire Smit Lamnalco (SL), the world’s fifth largest towage operator. Boluda Towage will thus become a world leader, with high growth potential and the …
Feb 10, 2023 / Curious

Boluda Towage starts towing services at the German port of Lubmin for the first installation of a floating LNG storage plant

The presence in the port is a further step towards strengthening and expanding the activities of Boluda Corporación Marítima’s International Towage Division in northwest Europe and the Baltic Sea region. The Deutsche ReGas LubminLNG import terminal …
Jan 3, 2023 / Curious

Boluda Towage expands its towage business in Asia

The subsidiary Boluda France now has two new tugboats, the VB LIKURAI and the VB FADO, which will enter service in East Timor, built this year by the Piriou shipyard in Vietnam.Boluda Towage, the towing division of Boluda Corporación Marítima, …
May 27, 2022 / Vessels

Boluda Towage’s Bremen Fighter is sporting the official German Coast Guard Colours

The most powerful tug in Boluda Towage's fleet will operate under the command of the German Federal Waterways Authorities in the Baltic Sea.The tug BREMEN FIGHTER, from the Boluda Towage fleet, has passed all administrative procedures and inspections …
Feb 24, 2022 / Vessels

Boluda Towage expands its maritime services in Mauritania

Boluda France, together with the Autonomous Port of Nouakchott, have formed the Society of Maritime Services of Nouakchott (SSMN). Caption: Tug VB Jamsah - Image courtesy of Boluda The CEO of Boluda Towage, Antonio Bordils, attends the presentation …
Oct 4, 2021 / Curious

Boluda Towage takes part in naming ceremony of four new tugs operating in Belgian port of Zeebrugge

The VB BOLERO, VB RUMBA, VB SAMBA and VB FLANDES vessels were built by Damen ShipyardsBoluda Corporación Marítima towing division Boluda Towage has taken into service four newly built Damen tugboats – the VB BOLERO, VB RUMBA, VB FLANDES and VB SAMBA …
Sep 20, 2021 / Vessels

Boluda Towage expands operations in the Baltic with towing service in German port of Rostock

This September, through its Northern European subsidiary Boluda Towage Europe, the Boluda Corporación Marítima international towing division Boluda Towage has commenced towing operations in Rostock, the most important German port in the Baltic …
Sep 16, 2021 / Vessels

Boluda Towage Starts Towing Operations In Rostock, Germany

With effect from September 2021, Boluda Towage commenced towage activities in the port of Rostock, Germany. Caption: Boluda’s tug ‘VB Bremen’, a Voith-Schneider driven harbour and seagoing tug with 60 tonnes bollard pull, welcomed and escorted the …
Sep 9, 2021 / Curious