FEBRUARY 16, 2017 — A Coast Guard Station Ketchikan Response Boat—Medium crew and Marine Safety Detachment Ketchikan pollution team responded to the tug boat Samson Mariner when it ran aground while towing
FEBRUARY 9, 2017 — The first U.S.-built Rotortug – ART Trident — has undergone trials and is now in service. Designed by Robert Allan Ltd., and designated as an ART 80-98US, she
FEBRUARY 9, 2017 — Damen Shipyards builds a lot of tugs, making it Rolls-Royce’s biggest customer for its azimuthing thrusters. The 1,000th and the 1,001st units — Rolls-Royce US 255 FP azimuth
FEBRUARY 2, 2017 — Foss Maritime has posted a video showing the progress its Rainier Shipyard is making construction of the Nicole Foss, the third of three Arctic-Class tugs. The first two
JANUARY 28, 2017 — Recently delivered to McAllister Towing and Transportation Co., Inc. by Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, FL, the twin Z-drive reverse tractor tug Jeffrey McAllister is named in honor
JANUARY 23, 2016 —JonRie Intertech, Manahawkin, NJ, reports that it has supplied its sixth ship set full 90 ton winch for installation on McAllister Towing & Transportation Company, Inc.’s 5,150 HP twin
JANUARY 20, 2017—Harley Marine Services, Seattle, WA, has announced the names for two Articulated Tug & Barge (ATB) units currently under construction at Gunderson Marine in Portland, OR, and Conrad Shipyard, Morgan
JANUARY 19, 2017 — Foss Maritime’s Rainier Shipyard is making rapid progress with construction of the Nicole Foss, the third of three Arctic-Class tugs. Today the company tweeted a picture of the
DECEMBER 29, 2016 — Shipbroker Marcon International, Inc., Coupeville, WA, has passed a notable milestone. Over the last 35 years it has brokered 322 tugs for sales or charter, totaling 1,005,657 HP.
DECEMBER 16, 2016—Shipyards that build and repair oceangoing vessels often employ their own small yard-tug to maneuver in and around yard structures, reposition hulls in dry docks or to control newly launched