Keel-Laying Ceremony at SANMAR Shipyard The eight vessel of Sanmar’s 28.20m x 12.50m Terminal class ASD tugboats will be joining the fleet of Pakistan’s number two port, Port Muhammad Bin Qasim, located 35km east of Karachi. Commonly known as PQA and named after General Muhammad Bin Qasim, it is the country’s deepest port and currently [...]
FIVE LAUNCHINGS IN AS MANY MONTHS From its new custom-built construction facility in Tuzla Bay near Istanbul, leading Turkish tug builder Sanmar Marine has succeeded in launching five brand new tugs in less than five months – both ASDs and conventional twin-screw units. Dogancay XXIV, as the latest vessel is named, is another Robert Allan [...]
Turkish Quartet Make Big Maiden Voyage Sanmar Marine’s chairman, Orhan Gürün, flew from Istanbul to Vancouver, British Columbia, in early July as an honoured guest at the naming ceremonies of three new powerful RAstar Class azimuthing tug boats built at the company’s yard located on the outskirts of Türkiye’s largest city. Vessel designer Robert Allan, [...]
More power from latest new build Türkiye’s world renowned tug builder, Sanmar Marine, has a reputation for not letting the grass grow under its feet. The company’s new custom built construction yard near Istanbul is paying dividends with the third launch in just a couple of months. Ulupinar XIII has now been followed by the [...]
Seaspan Commissioning Ceremony - June 28, 2012 Seaspan celebrated the delivery of three new RAstar Class vessels and was honoured to have Vivian Jacob (for the Seaspan Osprey), Heidi George (for the Seaspan Kestrel) and Tracey Ross (for the Seaspan Eagle) christen and name each vessel. Joining Seaspan for the occasion was vessel designer Rob [...]
Ulupinar XIII has been delivered to operate at Port of Mersin One of its most impressive designs, the Ulupinar Series, is a compact 50-tonne bollard pull ASD, exclusive to Sanmar, which is the result of a number of brain storming sessions between the renowned Robert Allan Limited team of naval architects and Sanmar’s own experienced [...]
M/T TORSTEN sails into service from Istanbul to North of Germany The delivery of NavTug ® FlatTop TORSTEN was celebrated with a ceremony in late February. She completed sea trials succesfully this month in Istanbul and started her maiden voyage. The tug Torsten, is a powerful handy-sized multipurpose anchor-handling and assistance vessel which has been [...]
SANMAR to build world’s first LNG tugs for Buksér og Berging AS, Norway Sanmar proudly announces the new built contract to deliver the world’s first Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) powered escort tugs. The two vessels will be constructed at Sanmar’s new yard in Tuzla Bay, İstanbul. The vessels have been ordered by Buksér og Berging [...]