Türkiye-based Sanmar Shipyards has won, in a competitive bid process, a contract to build a pair of custom designed icebreaking tugs for celebrated Finland-based operator, Alfons Hakans. This family-owned company, a major towage and salvage company with decades of regional expertise in the Northern Baltic Sea region, has signed a contract for a pair of 67 tonne bollard [...]
The increasing demand for the significant operational advantages of the true tractor configuration tug with forward mounted thrusters is exemplified by the latest contract awarded to Sanmar by Rimorchiatori Riuniti in Italy. This will be sixth example of the Turkish specialist tug builder’s, exclusive Delicay design in barely a year since the first vessel of [...]
The world’s leading tug operator, Svitzer, has ordered five new ASD tugs for round-the-clock operational support for vessel movements in, Oman. The renewal of a 15 year contract for Svitzer to provide marine services to Sohar Industrial Port Company SAOC meant a fleet development plan to provide the next generation of fit for purpose and [...]
Close collaboration between leading Turkish tug building specialist, Sanmar Shipyards and world-renowned designer, Vancouver, Canada-based Robert Allan Limited, has brought instant success with the signing of a prestigious order from Orkney Islands Council's Marine Services. Construction will soon start at Sanmar’s Altinova facility, one of the company’s two custom-built shipyards located some 75 minutes drive [...]
With a new order just placed by an Italian owner, currently, the most popular ASD tug type in Sanmar's extensive portfolio is the Class designated by the Turkish specialist builder as the Bogacay Series. Although an exclusive design specially commissioned by Sanmar from the drawing board of the renowned Robert Allan Limited design team, [...]
Sanmar, Türkiye's leading tug builder, has delivered the third version of its new Robert Allan Ltd designed series, the TRAktor-Z 2500SX– Delicay Class. The new vessel, planned for deployment in London with the name Svitzer Meridian, has a full FiFi 1 notation powered by a dedicated Cat C32 diesel engine and has been built [...]
In less than two years, a relatively new compact class of Robert Allan Limited tugs designed exclusively for Sanmar, Türkiye’s leading tug builder, has received international acclaim – resulting in an order from PKL Flote of Latvia. This order follows universal praise of the Sirapinar Class from owners in the UAE, UK, Spain (2 [...]
A quartet of Sanmar’s very powerful latest development, the Bigaçay Series of fire-fighting ASDs, designed exclusively for Türkiye’s leading tug builder by Robert Allan Ltd (and designated by them as the RAstar 2900 SX) are on their way in convoy across the Mediterranean to North Africa and the Kingdom of Morocco to form the nucleus [...]
A repeat order from Buksér og Berging AS expressing the operator’s appreciation for Sanmar’s technological skills and high standard of workmanship.
Sea trials have been taking place off the Turkish coast of the first two examples of Sanmar’s latest development, the Bigacay Series of ASDs, designed exclusively for the specialist tug builder by Robert Allan Ltd (and designated by them as the RAstar 2900 SX). The two boats are soon to be joined by two [...]