Svitzer Chirripo 150th designed Tug for Sanmar by Robert Allan Ltd. for Svitzer’s Silver Bullet Project The Svitzer Hermod and Svitzer Chirripo are the first two of six customized Robert Allan Ltd. RAstar 2800 class terminal support/escort tug designs for Svitzer’s “Silver Bullet” fleet replenishment program. Svitzer Chirripo will be the 150th tug that [...]
Svitzer and Sanmar have signed a contract for a newbuild 80 tbp ASD escort tug Svitzer has signed a contract with Sanmar to purchase a newbuild 80 tbp ASD escort tug for Southampton, strengthening its fleet to meet current and future customer requirements and reemphasising its commitment to the port of Southampton. The new [...]
Sanmar’s faith in their latest design cooperation with Robert Allan Ltd has been well rewarded. The Turkish tug building company laid the keels of two Sirapinar Class tugs a month or so ago and the opportunity to purchase these ASDs has been snapped up by long established Italian operator, Rimorchiatori Napoletani. Commenting on the [...]
Integrated Quality-HSE Management System in SANMAR covers all the procedures of shipyard production facilities at every stage and harbor tugboat services as well. Sanmar has a well implemented and continuously developed integrated management system in “Ship Building & Tugboat Services” by the ownership of all personnel. This integrated management system has been certificated by [...]
Measuring 24.4m in length with a moulded beam of 11.25m and an overall draft 5.70m, the tug is powered by pair of Caterpillar 3516 C main engines, each developing 2100kW at 1600 rev/min driving Rolls-Royce [...]
Ali GURUN of Sanmar A.S. has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director at the Shipowners’ Club and attended his first Board meeting in Dubai UAE recently. Based in the Türkiye for many years, Ali Gurun is Technical Director and Shareholder of the Club’s longstanding Member, Sanmar. Sanmar celebrated it’s 40th year anniversary during 2016. Mr. [...]
Sanmar has delivered tugboats Sanmar 26 and Sanmar 29 to operate at Karasu Port, Türkiye. Both of the tugs have been in Sanmar’s fleet and operating succesfully. Sanmar series tugboats were originally designed by Robert Allan Ltd. for rendering ship docking service in Vancouver harbour. These tugs feature exceptional response, manoeuvrability and stability and now [...]
Although Sanmar enjoys a high global reputation for the construction of excellent tugs, it also has a long experience of pilot boat construction. The most recent example is Pilot Boat 10 designed by Camarc and built by Sanmar for the Mersin International Port Authority in southern Türkiye. Measuring 14.95 x 5.2m with a maximum draft [...]
News that Robert Allan Limited and Sanmar have jointly worked on a pioneering design of compact tractor tug has resulted in the signing of an order literally within a few weeks of the announcement of the concept. Port Taranaki, on the west coast of New Zealand, has awarded the Turkish shipbuilder a contract for [...]
A Sanmar delivery crew is currently making the trip from Türkiye to Dubai with the first of a brand new design of ASD tug jointly developed by Sanmar AS and Robert Allan Limited (RAL) to meet the market’s demand for more compact tugs with bollard pulls ranging between 45 and 60 tonnes. The lead tug [...]