RAmparts 2200 ASD Tug Expands the Organisation’s Towage Service Capabilities and Enhances its Unique Maritime Logistical Offering SAFEEN Group, the marine arm of AD Ports Group, has announced the acquisition of SEMAIH, a RAmparts 2200 – Sanmar ‘SIRAPINAR’ Series ASD Harbour Tug, to expand and bolster its towage service capabilities. Powered by a Caterpillar [...]
Sanmar Shipyards is celebrating completing a record number of vessels within one calendar month, with six tugs and two pilot boats gaining their class certificates during January 2022. The record-breaking start to the New Year takes the total number of projects completed by Sanmar to more than 300, with 302 being completed to date. [...]
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, based on low and no emission tugboats. All three have expertise and practical experience of the new and developing technologies and alternative fuels that are enabling this change to happen, [...]
Sanmar Shipyards has delivered a fourth Bogacay series compact and powerful tug in two years to South American operator SAAM Towage. Like its three sisters SAAM VALPARAISO, SAAM PALENQUE and ALBATROS, Bogacay XLVIII, which its new owners have renamed HALCON lll, is based on the exclusive-to-Sanmar RAmparts 2400SX design from Canadian naval architects Robert [...]
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 purchase of Sirapinar XV, a 2020-built tugboat based on the RAmparts 2200 design from Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd, which is currently operating as part of Sanmar’s own [...]
Leading tugboat builder Sanmar has announced that it has acquired the third shipyard in Türkiye. Founded in 1976, Sanmar builds technologically-advanced state-of-the-art tugboats at its two shipyards, Sanmar Tuzla and Sanmar Altinova, in the cities of Istanbul and Yalova respectively. The shipyard that Sanmar has purchased was specialized in the repair and construction of [...]
Leading tugboat-builder Sanmar Shipyards and energy storage systems provider Corvus Energy signed a historic co-operation agreement at TugTechnology 2021 to build cutting-edge hybrid and zero-emissions battery electric tugs in a move hailed as a major step forward towards the creation of an environmentally-friendly towage industry. The agreement was signed by Sanmar Shipyards Vice President [...]
Sanmar Shipyards has signed a contract to deliver two cleaner and greener versions of its Bogacay series of tugs to Sicily-based operator Rimorchiatori Augusta Srl, marking the start of a new era for this popular range of tugboats. BOGACAY LII and BOGACY LIV have been refurbished and their propulsion systems upgraded using the latest [...]
Sanmar has delivered the most powerful escort tug ever built to Turkish Directorate General of Coastal Safety which, among other things, operates tugs used for emergency response escort services and assistance towage in Turkish waters. Renamed KURTARMA 15 by its new owners, the new-build escort tug is based on the exclusive-to-Sanmar RAstar 2900SX [...]
Photo caption: Sanmar Shipyards and Corvus Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the objective of equipping and building zero-emission and hybrid tugs. From Left: Gary Dockerty, Ipek Gurun, Ronald Hansen, Ruchan Civgin, Vimal Choy and Roger Rosvold. Corvus Energy and Sanmar Shipyards are pleased to announce a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between [...]