Tier IV tug Jane McAllister arrives in Virginia
McAllister Towing’s Tier IV tug Jane McAllister has arrived in the Port of Virginia. The 93 foot long by 38 foot beam vessel is equipped with 3516E Tier IV Caterpillar engines producing
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VIDEO: Seaway Trident goes to work for Seaway Development Authority
Recently delivered to the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (GLS) by Washburn & Doughty, East Boothbay, Me., the Seaway Trident is a highly customized, ice-strengthened tugboat based on Glosten’s HT-60
VIDEO: World’s first battery electric shallow draft pushboat
The Belov Engenharia shipyard in Salvador, Brazil, has delivered the HB Poraque. The Robert Allan Ltd. designed RApide 2000-E design vessel is the first of the two innovative battery/diesel electric vessels the
Schottel ships its largest-ever EcoPeller
Schottel’s Wismar, Germany, production facility has just shipped the largest EcoPeller ever manufactured by the propulsion specialist. The five-bladed SRE 700 has a propeller diameter of 3.6 meters and an input power
Tugboat designs and deliveries abound
Recently delivered to Suderman & Young Towing Company in Houston, Texas, the Eva is the first in a series of three Robert Allan Ltd.-designed Rapport 2600 tugboats the company ordered from Master
Big dredge: Big RudderPropellers
Currently under construction at the Keppel AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, Manson Construction Company’s 15,000-cubic-yard capacity, 420 foot long Frederick Paup will be the largest U.S.-flagged, self-propelled hopper dredge in the United
Schottel introduces new DP-optimized rudder propeller for offshore wind
Propulsion system specialist Schottel, Spay, Germany, has introduced a new rudder propeller optimized for DP (dynamic positioning) use. Meeting the growing requirements for W2W (walk-to-work) vessels to operate efficiently and reliably, the
World’s first hydrogen-fueled tug features Schottel propulsion
Launched earlier this year by Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Amon, the world’s first hydrogen-fueled tug, the HydroTug, will be among the cleanest vessels in the fleet of the Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium
Lake Victoria ferry gets new Schottel propulsion system
With an area of over 23,000 square miles, Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa—and a vital resource for the 30 million people who live on its shores. Every day, almost
Scrubber barge will clean up emissions from ships in California ports
A self-propelled, scrubber barge vessel being built to to capture and treat exhaust stack emissions vessels in the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles is to have a Schottel propulsion system.