Focus on Tug and Salvage Operations

It's all tugs and salvage vessels this week as Baird Maritime trains the spotlight on the global towage and salvage sectors. We review various vessels entering service around the world, from harbour and escort tugs in Europe to river pushboats in the United States and Brazil.

Tugs • Towboats • Pusher Tugs • ATBs • Salvage • Autonomy • Marine Environment

The propulsion systems are also as varied as the featured tugs themselves. Hybrid electric newbuilds are again included in the lineup alongside their conventionally-powered counterparts, thus indicating that the sector is steadily adapting to the need to reduce environmental impact while ensuring the full range of services that only these highly versatile vessels can provide.

Vessel Reviews:

• Seaway Trident – Maintenance tug designed for US inland waters
• Isabella Juliette – Barge pusher enters service with Lydia Ann Channel Fleet
  
• WS Rosalvo – New Brazilian escort tug boasts low-emission features
• Jane McAllister – McAllister Towing newbuild to serve US East Coast
  
• Multratug 6 – All-weather firefighting tug for Netherlands' Terneuzen Port
• VESSEL REFIT | Taktow – Irish operator acquires multi-role harbour tug
• HaiSea Wamis – Electric tug to support Canada's LNG export activities
• En Avant 25 – Netherlands' Muller Dordrecht welcomes tug to port and offshore support fleet
  
• HB Mapara – Powerful river pushboats for Brazilian towage company
  

News and Gear:

• Excessive speed during harbour manoeuvres caused tug to collide with containership, NTSB report reveals
• Tug and Salvage Vessel News Roundup | July 26 – Canadian and Polish newbuilds plus a future US Navy salvage ship
• Vessel capsizes, spills containers at Taiwan's Kaohsiung Port
• Tanker crew evacuated following explosions in South Kalimantan, Indonesia
• Tug and Salvage Vessel News Roundup | July 4 – US newbuilding orders, Russian response tug launch and Dutch-designed electric workboat range
• Substantial use of combustible materials caused 2022 towing vessel fire, NTSB report finds

Recent Important Features:

COLUMN | Good news: salvage work on FSO Safer underway, Heroic Idun crew arrive home, Nigerian central bank governor arrested! [Offshore Accounts]

– "The Houthis have been using the laden FSO as a pawn in their battle with the Saudis."

– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime's anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations

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 editor@bairdmaritime.com ASAP (between now and August 4), 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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