Sanmar has delivered the third tug to SAAM Towage from its successful RAmparts 2400SX design of compact tugboats. Named SAAM PALENQUE by its new owners, she will work in Panama where SAAM Towage is the largest supplier of towage services, with operations at all ports on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Based on [...]
Sanmar has delivered the ASD tugboat Med Antares to MedTug SA, the towage company of the giant container shipping line MSC, where it will operate at the expanding port complex at Sines, Portugal. Based on the RAstar 2800 series design by Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd, Med Antares is a state-of-the-art escort/offshore [...]
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 Trieste, Italy-headquartered operator TRIPMARE. Re-named EITAN by its new owners, the tug is based on the innovative exclusive-to-Sanmar VectRA AVT 3000 design from Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd. [...]
Sanmar has delivered its first Tier lll tugboat to Buksér og Berging AS, the first of two environmentally-friendly tugs ordered by the Norwegian operator. Built at Sanmar’s purpose-built state of the art shipyard at Altinova in Türkiye, the powerful, yet low emission tugboat has been named Bamse by its new owners. Based on the TRAktor 3000-Z design [...]
Sanmar Shipyards is proud to announce the contract signing with HaiSea Marine for the build and delivery of three (3) LNG Fuelled Escort Tugs and two (2) Electric Battery Powered Harbour Tugs which will provide ship-assist and escort towing services to LNG carriers calling at LNG Canada’s new export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia, [...]
Sanmar is in the process of delivering three high-performance ultra-modern tugs in a row to different European operators working in Portugal, Italy and Estonia. All three are at sea and heading for their new homes. One Sanmar Terminal class tug is on its way to MedTug SA to operate out of the port of [...]
Sanmar has completed the second of two unique high-performance ice-breaking tugboats custom-designed for Finland-based operator Alfons Håkans to operate all-year round in the harsh, often frozen, waters of the northern Baltic Sea. Known as TundRA ll while under construction at Sanmar’s state-of-the-art Altinova Shipyard in Türkiye, the tug has been named Helios by its [...]
Albatros, known as Bogacay XLII while under construction in Türkiye, is another example of the compact, but powerful RAmparts 2400SX class of tugboats designed exclusively for Sanmar by Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd. It will join the SAAM Towage tug Valkyria which recently started operating a new service from the Port of [...]
Sanmar has delivered the first of two unique high-performance ice-breaking tugboats to Finland-based operator Alfons Håkans specifically designed to operate all-year round in the harsh conditions of the northern Baltic Sea. Named Selene by its new owner, the TundRA 3200 designed by Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd is the first in its [...]
Sanmar has delivered the second of two modern flagship twin sister tugboats to Canadian west coast marine services provider Seaspan. Built in 2016 at Sanmar Shipyards Altinova, Bogacay XI has been renamed Seaspan Harrier by its new owners and left Türkiye for its new home on Canada’s west coast on 15 April. Seaspan [...]