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23 Sep

3 rescued from fire on tug in Cape Cod Canal

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Three crewmembers were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard off the 129-foot tug Canal Deluge operating out of Bourne, Mass., after the vessel caught fire. About four miles south of Sconticut Neck in Falmouth in the Cape Cod Canal, the crew reported a fire in the engine room at about 1300 on Aug. 1, according to the to Coast Guard.…

23 Sep

Bollinger delivers double-hull oil barge

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Bollinger Gretna LLC, of Harvey, La., one of the Bollinger shipyards, delivered B. No. 260, a double-hull, 60,000-barrel oil tank barge to Bouchard Ocean Services of Melville, N.Y. The new ocean barge is 350 feet long with a 75-foot beam and a 25-foot depth. Bouchard Ocean Services has taken delivery of a double-hull, 60,000-barrel oil barge. Built by Bollinger Gretna,…

23 Sep

Derecktor Shipyards to build offshore tugs for Massachusetts LNG

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The regional benefits of having a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Massachusetts are showing up in this order of two offshore terminal tugs, to be built by Derecktor Shipyards, based in Bridgeport, Conn.Derecktor Shipyards announced in June that it signed a contract to deliver two tugs to Boston Towing & Transportation of East Boston, a subsidiary of Reinauer…

15 Aug

The ASD tractor becomes the all-American tugboat

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The ASD tug Lynne Moran working with an LNG tanker at an LNG terminal in Freeport, Texas, that opened earlier this year [Brian Gauvin photos] Were it not for Edison Chouest Offshore, American tugboat companies might have turned in a perfect record in the past few years: Americans just don’t go for the “true” tractor-tug design. Whether it’s a tendency…

18 Jul

Change in sea-time requirement for tug mates prompts safety concerns

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The timber barge Swiftsure Prince began listing after breaching its hull in the Queen Charlotte Islands. The barge was later deliberately run aground. A proposed reduction in the sea-time requirements for becoming a mate of a towing vessel of 200 tons or more has many in the industry concerned. The rule change is designed to provide an alternative path for…

16 May

Dann Marine shows off impressive new wire towing vessel: Treasure Coast

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Treasure Coast. (Brian Gauvin). Dann Marine Towing, a mid-Atlantic family-operated company that has been in the tug business for some five generations, recently introduced the 16th tug in its fleet, a 104-footer delivered from Rodriguez Boat Builders of Alabama. This 3,000-hp, twin-screw tug, Treasure Coast, with elevated pilothouse, was designed and built specifically for towing oil barges on the Eastern…

07 May

Great Lakes Shipyard unveils low-power tug

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Crowley’s Vigilant, a 6,772-hp z-drive tug chartered from Baydelta Maritime, will provide escort services in Cook Inlet, Alaska. As fuel prices continue to skyrocket, a century-old Midwestern tug company is introducing a new line of low-powered tugs as it expands its Cleveland shipyard.Great Lakes Shipyard of Cleveland held a naming ceremony for its first “handysize” tug, Handy-One, on April…

07 May

Crew boat built to perform and to entertain

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Greater Scott is a 160-footer built by Neuville Boat Works for Texas Crewboats. The 160-by-30-foot Greater Scott was delivered from Neuville Boat Works, New Iberia. La., to Texas Crewboats, Freeport, Texas, in January. She is the seventh boat in the fleet of the company founded by Elliott Cundieff in 1979. Greater Scott is contracted to Nippon Oil, servicing a…

02 May

Fuel management for tugs becoming an increasing challenge

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The Sause Bros. tug Mikiona was designed for fuel efficiency with electronically controlled engines from MTU Detroit Diesel, Reintjes reduction gears, three-blade skewed propellers from Sound Propellers, NautiCan nozzles and NautiCan linked quad rudders. (Ron Karabaich) The cost of fuel has become a major expense item for every company in the transportation business, possibly more so for tugboats because their…

22 Apr

As DP systems grow in importance, the technology continues to improve

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A RADius 1000 distance-measuring transmitter on Seacor’s John G. McCall. Manufactured by Kongsberg, the RADius system uses radar technology for close-in positioning situations in which GPS signals may not be accurate. (Photo courtesy Gulf Craft) Dynamic positioning may be the most important shipboard navigation system since the compass. Once used only on the largest offshore vessels working in the deepest…