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Sanmar delivers Ground-breaking electric tug HAISEA WAMIS to eco-friendly Canadian operator HaiSea Marine

Workboat365 - 23/05/2023

Sanmar Shipyards has delivered HAISEA WAMIS, the first of three ground-breaking emissions-free battery electric tugs, to HaiSea Marine where it will operate at LNG...

Ship & Boat Building

New TRAnsverse Tugs for Svitzer Australia

Workboat365 - 15/05/2023

Svitzer, a leading global towage provider and part of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has today announced it has awarded a contract to Uzmar Shipyard to build...

Ship & Boat Building

Med Marine and Robert Allan Signed MoA For VoltRA Series Electric & Hybrid Tugboat Designs

Workboat365 - 27/04/2023

Robert Allan Ltd chief executive Mike Fitzpatrick and Med Marine’s C.E.O Hakan Şen signed a memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to design electric and hybrid...

Design and Naval Architects

World’s First Battery Electric Shallow Draft Pushboat Delivered

Workboat365 - 14/04/2023

Belov Engenharia Shipyard, located in Salvador, Brazil, has delivered the first Robert Allan Ltd. designed RApide 2000-E pushboat – HB Poraque. It is the first of two...

Ship & Boat Building

Sanmar Shipyards to build another eco-friendly tug for environmentally-aware operator

Workboat365 - 13/04/2023

Sanmar Shipyards has signed a new contract with long-term client Buksér og Berging AS to build a new generation environmentally-friendly tugboat. It will be...

Ship & Boat Building

Med Marine Successfully Delivered The MV Pate To Kenya Shipyard

Workboat365 - 28/03/2023

The contract signing ceremony for the supply and delivery of an Azimuth Stern Drive Tugboat with the Kenya Shipyard Limited took place on March...

Ship & Boat Building

Estaleiro Rio Maguari (ERM) delivers first RAmparts 2300-ERM Tug to Svitzer Brazil

Workboat365 - 14/03/2023

Robert Allan Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Svitzer Arthur, a RAmparts 2300-ERM tug, has been delivered by Estaleiro Rio Maguari (ERM). This marks the successful...

Ship & Boat Building

Industry leaders gathered at the naming ceremonies for Sanmar’s five new ground-breaking tugboats for HaiSea Marine

Workboat365 - 14/03/2023

Sanmar Shipyards has held naming ceremonies over two consecutive days for five tugboats. 2 LNG-fuelled escort tugs are the most powerful tugboats that Sanmar...

Ship & Boat Building

RApport 2600 Tug Hayden Grace Delivered

Workboat365 - 03/01/2023

Robert Allan Ltd. is pleased to announce that the RApport 2600 tug Hayden Grace was successfully delivered to Bay-Houston Towing Co. and started her commitments in Galveston, Texas...

Ship & Boat Building

Sanmar Shipyards delivers cleaner and greener tugs at end of successful year

Workboat365 - 03/01/2023

Sanmar Shipyards has ended a successful year with the delivery of two tugboats that are both powerful and environmentally-aware to Italy-based long-term client Rimorchiatori...

Ship & Boat Building

Four deliveries in final week rounds off good year for Sanmar Shipyards

Workboat365 - 30/12/2022

Sanmar Shipyards delivered four tugs during the final week of 2022 rounding off an extremely successful year, which saw the Turkish tugboat-builder deliver a...

Ship & Boat Building

Med Marine Successfully Launch The Celtic Treaty Escort Tugboat For Irish Mainport Holdings

Workboat365 - 19/12/2022

The keel laying ceremony for the escort capability Celtic Treaty Tugboat with Irısh Mainport took place on May 2022. The vessel is MED-A2850 RAstar 2800...

Design and Naval Architects

New Robert Allan Ltd Design for Tianjin Port

Workboat365 - 13/12/2022

Robert Allan Ltd. has been awarded a new contract by Tianjin Port, China for the design of a RAmparts 3500 ASD tug. Two vessels...

Ship & Boat Building

SANMAR delivers third tug to operate in challenging waters around Orkney

Workboat365 - 08/11/2022

FREYJA OF SCAPA, the third new tug built by Sanmar Shipyards for Orkney Islands Council, has been welcomed to its new home in the...

Huge interest in SANMAR’s new game-changing emissions-free electric tugs

Workboat365 - 01/11/2022

SANMAR Shipyards is delighted with the huge interest shown by operators around the world in its exclusive ground-breaking ElectRA series of eco-friendly electric tugboats. The...

Ship & Boat Building

SAAM Quibian Has Reached the Port of Manzanillo to Reinforce Fleet in Panama

Workboat365 - 27/10/2022

SAAM Towage's new tug, which will bolster the company's services in the Colon area, including support for ships transiting the Panama Canal, has already...

Oil Spill Response

Two Oil Spill Response Barges Completed for Western Canada Marine Response Corporation

Workboat365 - 27/10/2022

Robert Allan Ltd. is pleased to announce that two 3,500 tonne oil spill response barges, Sentinel 303 and Sentinel 304, were recently completed at ASL Shipyard in...

Ship & Boat Building

Sanmar Shipyards to build two electric harbour tugs for SAAM Towage

Workboat365 - 14/10/2022

Sanmar Shipyards has joined forces with major operator SAAM Towage and leading naval architects Robert Allan Ltd to develop and custom build two electric-powered...

Electric

SAAM Towage enters a new era with its first 100% electric tugboats

Workboat365 - 13/10/2022

SAAM Towage reached an important milestone today by closing an agreement with Teck & Neptune Terminals that will allow the deployment of the first...

Ship & Boat Building

Grandweld Shipyard delivered four new Robert Allan Ltd. design TRAktor 2700-Z tugs to Specialities Construction (SCC) for operations in Shuwaikh Port in Kuwait

Workboat365 - 07/10/2022

Robert Allan Ltd. is pleased to announce that Ghanim-1, Ghanim-2, Ghanim-3 and Ghanim-4, four TRAktor 2700-Z were successfully delivered for operations in Kuwait’s most important Shuwaikh Port. The newly completed tractor...

Ship & Boat Building

SAAM Towage to Receive New Tug in Panama

Workboat365 - 24/09/2022

SAAM Towage will receive a new tug for its fleet in Panama. The SAAM Quibian, purchased from Türkiye-based Sanmar Shipyards, features high maneuverability, which...

Ship & Boat Building

Sanmar Shipyards makes five deliveries in a week

Workboat365 - 20/09/2022

Sanmar Shipyards recently delivered five vessels in a single week from its extensive catalogue of technologically-advanced and environmentally-aware tugs and workboats to operators in...

Power & Propulsion

Wärtsilä engines selected for new Articulated Tug Barges as Brazilian operator seeks to reduce emissions

Workboat365 - 15/09/2022

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply the engines for two new Articulated Tug Barges (ATBs), designed by Robert Allan Ltd and built by Estaleiro...

Power & Propulsion

Berg Propulsion turns on the power with tug order breakthrough in Türkiye

Workboat365 - 18/08/2022

Berg Propulsion has secured its first new tug order in Türkiye since the opening of Berg Propulsion Eurasia in April 2022 - the entity...

Ship & Boat Building

Svitzer Brazil strengthens fleet with two newbuilds

Workboat365 - 18/08/2022

Svitzer, leading global towage operator and part of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has today announced that it is further strengthening its fleet in Brazil with two...

Ship & Boat Building

SAAM Towage Peru fleet adds sixth tug with new Condor

Workboat365 - 20/07/2022

SAAM Towage welcomes the tug known as Cóndor, acquired from Sanmar Shipyards in Turkey and now located in the Port of Callao. This is...

Ship & Boat Building

Robert Allan Ltd. announce Seabulk’s newest Advanced Rotortug

Workboat365 - 08/07/2022

Robert Allan Ltd. is pleased to announce that Seabulk’s newest Advanced Rotortug, Hermes has recently been delivered. Hermes joins sister ship Nike, delivered in 2021, in operation in Mobile,...

Ship & Boat Building

Med Marine Delivers Second MED-A2885 RAstar 2800 Series Tugboats To Global Towage Leader Svitzer For Their Suez Canal Fleet

Workboat365 - 07/07/2022

On June 07, Med Marine delivered the second MED-A2885, named SVITZER SUEZ 3, of the two new buildings. Both vessels are Robert Allan Ltd-design...

Ship & Boat Building

Maki and Ika Nui, two RAmparts 2100-CL harbour tugs, delivered to Eastland Group, New Zealand

Workboat365 - 07/06/2022

Robert Allan Ltd. is pleased to announce that Maki and Ika Nui, two RAmparts 2100-CL harbour tugs were successfully delivered to Eastland Group. The newly delivered tugs were constructed...

Methanol

UZMAR Shipyard and Robert Allan Ltd to design and build a new series of methanol-fuelled tugboats

Workboat365 - 06/05/2022

UZMAR Shipyard and Robert Allan Ltd have signed an agreement to design and build a new series of methanol-fuelled tugboats. These new designs, exclusive to...

Hybrid

Berg Propulsion welcomes Seabulk Spartan – state of the art hybrid tug

Workboat365 - 20/04/2022

A new harbor tug delivered by one of the leading workboat builders in the United States gives form to the Berg Propulsion case that...

Ship & Boat Building

RAstar 4200 ASD Tugs for SMIT Lamnalco

Workboat365 - 13/04/2022

Smit Lamnalco awarded a construction contract to Uzmar, Turkey for three RAstar 4200 ASD tugs in 2019. The three purpose-designed and built tugs SL IBO, SL MATEMO and SL MACALOE have...

Tugs

SAAM Towage Adds New Tug to Chilean Fleet

Workboat365 - 12/04/2022

SAAM Towage continues to expand its fleet, this time in Chile. A new tug docked in Valparaíso and is getting ready to provide services. “This...

Ship & Boat Building

Master Boat Builders Announces Delivery of “Spartan” Hybrid Tugboat for Seabulk

Workboat365 - 31/03/2022

Master Boat Builders, Inc. today announced that earlier this month, Spartan, an electric-hybrid tugboat was delivered to Seabulk. This modern and unique tug was built...

Ship & Boat Building

Sanmar Shipyards Completes Record Number Of Vessels In A Month

Workboat365 - 28/02/2022

Sanmar Shipyards is celebrating completing a record number of vessels within one calendar month, with six tugs and two pilot boats gaining their class...

Power & Propulsion

Sanmar Shipyards and SCHOTTEL further strengthen collaboration with second framework agreement

Workboat365 - 17/02/2022

Istanbul-based Sanmar Shipyards and the German propulsion expert SCHOTTEL have signed a second framework agreement. It makes SCHOTTEL the exclusive supplier of thrusters for...

Hybrid

SCHOTTEL hybrid drive solution for Peruvian tug operator PSA Marine Peru

Workboat365 - 10/02/2022

PSA Marine Peru, a wholly owned subsidiary of PSA Marine (Pte) Ltd, has contracted Cheoy Lee Shipyards in Hongkong for equipping one newly built...

Appointments

Sanmar Shipyards appoints three directors to drive its green agenda

Workboat365 - 07/02/2022

Sanmar Shipyards has appointed three new directors to drive forward its mission to lead the tug and towing sector into a sustainable, environmentally-conscious future,...

Ship & Boat Building

Keel Laying Ceremony held for Robert Allan Ltd. designed TRAktor Tugs

Workboat365 - 04/02/2022

Robert Allan Ltd. is pleased to announce that on January 26, 2022, Grandweld Shipyard held a keel laying ceremony for two of total four...

Ship & Boat Building

Svitzer Acquires Two MED-A2885 RAstar 2800 Series Tugboats From Med Marine To Strengthen Its Suez Canal Fleet

Workboat365 - 02/02/2022

Svitzer has announced extending the current contract with the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) to provide services and Med Marine will supply two Robert Allan...

Kongsberg Maritime to supply 20 state-of-the-art azimuth thruster units to Sanmar Shipyards

Workboat365 - 24/01/2022

Kongsberg Maritime is excited to announce that it has just signed a sizeable contract with Sanmar Shipyards in Turkey to deliver 20 high-performance, future-proof...

Tugs

Sanmar Shipyards signs first contract of the New Year

Workboat365 - 14/01/2022

Sanmar Shipyards has signed its first contract of 2022 with loyal client SMS Towage, the UK’s largest family-owned towage company. The contract is for the...

Design and Naval Architects

Sandock Austral Shipyards signs marketing agreement with Canada’s Robert Allan Ltd.

Workboat365 - 12/01/2022

Sandock Austral Shipyards (SAS), the Durban based shipbuilding and repair company will be able to offer clients a range of state-of-the-art high-performance tugs, following...

Tugs

Sekavin And Med Marine Signed A Contract For State-Of-The-Art Er95 Tug

Workboat365 - 16/12/2021

Med Marine and Sekavin have signed a contract for a 25m 75 TBP new state-of-the-art vessel, ER95. Delivery was set for November 2021 and we...

Tugs

The first RAstar 2800-CL ASD escort tug, has been delivered to Svitzer Egypt by Cheoy Lee Shipyards

Workboat365 - 23/11/2021

Svitzer Suez 1, the first RAstar 2800-CL ASD escort tug, has been delivered to Svitzer Egypt LLC by Cheoy Lee Shipyards and will soon commence operations...

Methanol

Svitzer to develop carbon neutral methanol fuel cell tug

Workboat365 - 10/11/2021

Svitzer, A.P. Moller - Maersk’s world leading towage operator, has signed an agreement with Robert Allan Ltd, leading naval architect company, to design the...

Crew Transfer Vessels

Low Carbon Wind Farm CTV Developed by Robert Allan Ltd.

Workboat365 - 06/10/2021

With support from the Carbon Trust, UK and the Offshore Wind Accelerator program, Robert Allan Ltd. has brought the offshore wind industry closer to...

Electric

Corvus Energy and Sanmar Shipyards sign MoU to develop a new range of zero-emission and hybrid tugs

Workboat365 - 03/09/2021

Corvus Energy and Sanmar Shipyards are pleased to announce a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two organizations. The agreement has been...

Power & Propulsion

Steerprop to Deliver the Azimuth Propulsors to a Series Of RAmparts Tugboats

Workboat365 - 19/08/2021

UZMAR Shipyards in Turkey is one of the world’s top-notch tugboat builders with a very good reputation worldwide. The company has now chosen Steerprop...

Robert Allan Ltd. RAmpage 6000-ZM Spill Response Vessel delivered by Uzmar Shipyard to Kuwait Oil Company

Workboat365 - 22/07/2021

The 60 metre RAmpage 6000-ZM vessel Koc Al Zour, built by Uzmar Shipyard, will be the largest Robert Allan Ltd. design ever built in Turkey. She is designed...

Tugs

Sanmar delivers high-performance VSP tugboat

Workboat365 - 09/07/2021

Sanmar has delivered a high-performance Voith Schneider Propeller (VSP) tractor tug designed for maximum efficiency when towing, harbour ship-handling and escorting large ships, to...

Design and Naval Architects

Historic U.S. First as ABS, Robert Allan, Signet and USCG Use Purely 3D Process to Deliver Commercial Vessel

Workboat365 - 28/06/2021

The first commercial U.S. vessel designed, built and verified using an end-to-end 3D design process is now under construction in a pioneering project by...

Tugs

New Crowley Tug Proves Cleaner and Smaller Can Be Powerful

Workboat365 - 23/06/2021

Crowley Maritime Corp.’s ship assist and harbour escort services group has taken delivery of Apollo, a powerful and manoeuvrable tugboat with the most compact size in...

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