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 [...]
Sanmar Shipyards has delivered two line-handling pusher crafts to Targe Towing as part of the Scotland-based operator’s ongoing fleet upgrade its vessels servicing the Hound Point oil export terminal on the Firth of Forth. Iyidere series are an additional class of workboat in Sanmar’s portfolio and are based on the RAmbler 1200 design [...]
Sanmar Shipyards will deliver the second very high performance ASD RAstar 2800 tug, designed with a sponsoned hull form, to long-established Italian operator Rimorchiatori Napoletani S.R.L. in May 2021. She will be the exact sister of BAIA delivered back in May 2020 to Napoli by Sanmar’s own delivery crew. Sanmar has previously delivered [...]
Sanmar Shipyards has sold the tug Sirapinar Xll to Portland Harbour Authority which operates the former Royal Navy harbour at Portland, Dorset, on the UK’s south coast. Formerly operating as part of Sanmar’s own fleet, the 2019-built Sirapinar Xll is a twin Z-drive, diesel powered tugboat designed for maximum efficiency when performing ship-handling duties [...]
Sanmar Shipyards has delivered another vessel in its popular Delicay series of powerful compact tugboats – this time to its own fleet. Like its sister tugs, Delicay Vlll is a versatile Z-drive tractor tug built to Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd’s exclusive to Sanmar TRAktor-Z 2500SX design, created in close partnership with the [...]