Sanmar has achieved considerable success in recent years with Italian based towage companies. The Turkish operator with an unparalleled tug building record has supplied 12 tugs to Italy since 2010 with several more under construction. Sanmar Shipyards built Sirapinar ASD class tug has arrived in Naples, Italy, to enter service with Rimochitori Napolitani. [...]
Sanmar has pleasure in drawing to your attention the following press release issued by Caterpillar following a signing ceremony which took place at the New Orleans Workboat Show. Sanmar’s Design Manager, Özer İlhan attended the event. Hamburg, Germany – Caterpillar Marine is pleased to announce collaboration with Sanmar Shipyards in Istanbul, Türkiye to build an [...]
The premier Turkish specialist tug builder, Sanmar, has made two important deliveries of Robert Allan Ltd. designed ASD tugs to different parts of the world during this past week. Each new vessel is the first of a matching pair Marechiaro (ex Sirapinar V) The fifth example of this relatively new class has arrived in Naples, [...]
The most powerful tugboat on the Humber has been unveiled at a naming ceremony at Hull’s Albert Dock. SMS Towage’s newly built £5.8m vessel Superman was christened at the ceremony today after being delivered from the Sanmar shipyard, near Istanbul. SMS's other Sanmar-built boats are the Statesman, Scotsman, Yorkshireman, Masterman, Englishman and Merchantman. The boat [...]
Sanmar, Türkiye's leading tug constructor has been building on its well established reputation in the UK. Already this year it has delivered five tugboats to three different UK clients. The important ports benefitting from these latest deliveries are Aberdeen, Bristol, Hull, Middlesbrough and Southampton. The most powerful of the tugs is Svitzer Adira, an 80 [...]
Svitzer, a leading provider of harbour and terminal towage to the global shipping industry, has named its new ASD tug Svitzer Adira, an 80 tonne bollard pull vessel built by Sanmar at a ceremony in the Port of Southampton. The naming-giving ceremony took place in relaxed surroundings on board the Princess Caroline cruising the Southampton [...]
Sanmar shipyards of Türkiye is proud to announce the award of the most recent additions to the Abu Dhabi Port Company’s (ADPC) tug fleet. Abu Dhabi Ports, the master developer, operator and manager of commercial and community ports within the emirate of Abu Dhabi, announced the award and purchase of two new Sanmar built tugs [...]
Delivery of Svitzer Avon to the Port of Bristol in the UK signals the completion of Sanmar's six boat build contract as part of Svitzer's tugboat replenishment programme known as the Silver Bullet Project. The successful conclusion of this order brings the collaboration between Türkiye’s leading tug builder and Canadian tug design specialists, Robert Allan [...]
By purchasing a brand new tug from Sanmar Shipyards, experienced UK operator, SMS Towage, has taken delivery of its seventh ASD tug built by Türkiye’s leading tug builder. The new tug is named Superman continuing an established pattern – the previous six Sanmar built tugs in the SMS fleet are called Statesman, Scotsman, Yorkshireman, Masterman, [...]
Sanmar will build the first harbour tugs with 90 tonnes of bollard pull using MTU engines from Rolls-Royce Sanmar Built Robert Allan / RAstar 2900sx tug Rolls-Royce and Sanmar Shipyards in Türkiye have signed a contract for the delivery of eight MTU Series 4000 engines for four new terminal tugs, including an [...]