A very unusual transport, here seen sailing inland river Dordtsche Kil, Muller - Dordrecht inland pusher/tug SIRIUS pushing Muller - Dordrecht seagoing tug EN AVANT 20 to her regular berth in Dordrecht, after about two weeks of maintenance and repair at Stellendam. Photo: Nico Giltay (c)
I heard that Pacific Pile is building a new dock at Palmer Station. I heard awhile ago that Boyer Towing was also sending a tug down. Karen C is the only tug I see on Marine Traffic at Palmer Station. I don’t know, maybe Curtin got the job away from Boyer.
ALP STRIKER, ALP KEEPER, ALP SWEEPER and the CORAL SUL FLNG arrived off Mozambique. The arrival on site marked the end of the first phase of the project for ALP. The tow departed Geoje, South Korea in November. A short call for bunkers, replenishment and crew-change was scheduled at Mauritius. Despite the travel challenge and the call coinciding with Christmas the call was executed in the foreseen timeframe, thanks to great teamwork between all parties and authorities involved.The project now moves into the next phase, hooking up the CORAL SUL FLNG to the pre-laid mooring spread. In addition to the ALP vessels involved in the tow, the ALP ACE and ALP CENTRE were delivered to the project in Mozambique. We look forward to the challenge !
Sleepdienst de Haan is not only active on the large/modern tugs. If it has to be accurate to the centimeter, but is also specialized in the small / large transport world.
Dutch tug KOLGA (212 t. BP) seen on 23 January 2022 just before sunrise between Sicily and Malta. The KOLGA is underway from Vlissingen to Ravenna with Heerema barge H-408.
The barge will pick up a module for the Tyra project on the Danish sector of the North Sea.
Photo: Ferdy Houtstra - Mate o/b Kolga (c)
On Saturday night Pacific Tug Group Tug PT. Monto and rsemi-sub barge PT Camel set of from Brisbane heading north to travel around to Cape Lambert in Western Australia to collect a jack up barge. They will then continue south and around to Eden in NSW where they will deliver the JUB then return back to Brisbane. This will see the tug, barge and our fine crew travel 6470nm and circumnavigate Australia while maintaining strict Covid protocol in each state and territory.
Every one in the Pacific Tug Group wish the crew a safe and uneventful trip and we look forward to taking your lines back at Pacific Marine Base - Brisbane in March.
The Seaspan Scout is a Canadian tug of 14.2 meters / 49 feet long, 9.87 GRT, 1500 hp, with a pair of Mitsubishi engines turning 66” wheels producing 20 tons bollard pull. A lot of power for a 49 foot tug.
As always I’m probably out of date, but the last I knew, Canadian tugs of this size (under 10 GRT) did not require much of an inspection or any licensed or certificated crew. These guys are highly skilled and fun to watch with a distinct style of handling barges.
The HERMES Tug, built by Turkish shipyard UZMAR is the latest in the long line of Cummins powered tugboats. But this isn’t just any other tug. HERMES is paving the way for mechanical hybrid solutions as the first hybrid tug of its kind.
This vessel, operating in Port of Aarhus, Denmark, boasts a total bollard pull of 71.2 tons (20 ton more than its predecessor) while delivering large cost savings with its hybrid operation. Bollard pull is a sizing unit of measurement for the pulling power of a tug and determines a tugs day-to-day operation by identifying the size and weight of vessels that the tug has the power to guide. The HERMES has four Cummins engines onboard to support this feat; two QSK60 propulsion engines and two QSB7s providing electric power.
Within marine, a hybrid solution is considered any application where there are multiple methods of providing power to the propulsion system. In the case of the HERMES tug, the mechanical hybrid system, named SYDRIVE-M, uses a transmission to provide tandem power - meaning one engine provides power to two turbines while free sailing (bollard operation will still require two engines). SYDRIVE-M was designed by mechanical engineering company Schottel, a leader in marine industrial machinery.
Source: Maasmond Newsclippings today.
