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13 th Volume, No. index Dated 31 December 2012 

BUYING, SALES, NEW BUILDING, RENAMING AND OTHER TUGS TOWING & OFFSHORE INDUSTRY NEWS 

TUGS & TOWING NEWS INDEX 2012 

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"Dances with swells" London voyage continued 

Tugs/Towing 

44 

"Hollands Glorie" on inland waterways Tugs/Towing 29 

"Virgen del Valle and Arcangel San Miquel" Delivery Tugs/Towing 39 

“Explorer” Gets Towed up the Houston Ship Channel Tugs/Towing 24 

“Grazy Farmers” to take tug on 408 km road trip Tugs/Towing 26 

“Ilan I”- New tug boat joined Haifa port Tugs/Towing 22 

“Noordgat saves drifting new building tanker hull” Accident/Salvage 36 

1,200 miles towing Tugs/Towing 6 

10.600 miles towing with the Clara B – report by Captain Tugs/Towing 39 

12 Wind Turbine Foundations Depart Belgium Wind Farm 34 

14M Wind Farm Service and Support Vessel Fastnet Skua 

Launch 

Wind Farm 16 

18 tons bollard pull prompt available Tugs/Towing 6 

186' Research Vessel Sold For Conversion Accident/Salvage 39 

19 rescued after ship runs aground off Sicily Accident/Salvage 11 

2 barges run aground off Karaikal coast Accident/Salvage 52 

25 Mtr tug completed Tugs/Towing 7 

3 killed and at least 9 injured in Suez Tugboat explosion Tugs/Towing 13 

30m Z-Tech 7000 ASD Tug delivery Tugs/Towing 18 

40 ice-locked ships await icebreakers in the Sea of Azov Accident/Salvage 6 

42 seen fitting out in Valencia Tugs/Towing 48 

49th Annual Meeting European Tugowners Association Tugs/Towing 25 

571672 arrived Tugs/Towing 4 

60M MPP AHTSF Vessel for sale Accident/Salvage 39 

7 crew members rescued after tugboat sinks Tugs/Towing 32 

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13 TH VOLUME, NO. INDEX DATED 31 DECEMBER 2012 

7 Crew members were Kidnapped from Bourbon AHTS Off 

Nigeria 

Offshore News 42 

7 Korean nationals saved from doomed tugboat off N. 

Philippines 

Tugs/Towing 31 

90 workers injured as jack-up rig tilts at Jurong Shipyard Accident/Salvage 49 

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A century on to remember Accident/Salvage 15 

A Dozen Damen Tugs for Wilson Sons, Brazil Yard News 46 

A fine model from Argentina Tugs/Towing 16 

A foreign visitor Tugs/Towing 38 

A new face in Harlingen Tugs/Towing 28 

A New RAmparts 3200 for the Signet Maritime Corporation Tugs/Towing 13 

A Northern Tow Tugs/Towing 4 

A Pair of New RAstar 3100 Tugs for Signet Maritime of 

Houston, Texas 

Tugs/Towing 6 

A tug here, a tug there Tugs/Towing 35 

A tugboat to join searching operation for missing dry cargo 

ship Amurskaya 


A unique photo Tugs/Towing 16 

A Wartime tug on the Cyprus beach Tugs/Towing 18 

Abandoned ships a rusting hazard in Nigeria waters Accident/Salvage 18 

Abbe for sale Tugs/Towing 49 

ABC Marine’s Newbuild Catfish CrewCat Vessel Completes Offshore News 

Sea Trials 

41 

About 13,000 Gallons of Fuel Removed From Tug Accident/Salvage 48 

Acceptance and Delivery Act for the tugboat “RB-395” Tugs/Towing 51 

Acceptance Program of 2013 is launched Tugs/Towing 49 

ACL picks Cat 280 engines for towboat repowers Tugs/Towing 50 

Acquisition of business and assets Main Source Offshore 

People Ltd. by Atlas Services Group Energy Ltd. 


Acta Marine expands fleet with 4 Damen Shoalbusters Tugs/Towing 39 

Acta Marine names the four new Damen built vessels Tugs/Towing 47 

Acta Marine salvages dead whales on December 21 Tugs/Towing 52 

Acta Marine vessels continue their extensive activities on 

the Dutch Wadden Sea 

Wind Farm 31 

Adhart Shipping sells anchor handler Offshore News 51 

Adinath One leaving Valletta Malta News 3 

Admiral P joins offshore turbine services growing fleet of 

CTruk workboats 

Wind Farm 39 

AET set for more new LSVs Offshore News 10 

After eight years restoration she sails again on own power Tugs/Towing 16 

Agis with Kommandor Calum in tow Tugs/Towing 31 

AHT ERACLEA and KPV BADANG enroute Tugs/Towing 26 

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AHT Eraclea contracted for the towage of Jack-up rig Deep 

Driller 1 


AHTS Jaya Supreme sold Offshore News 40 

AHTS Kigoriak gets OSR equipment Accident/Salvage 39 

AHTS market rises Offshore News 40 

AHTS mop up Offshore News 3 

AHTS Northern Ariki sold Offshore News 11 

AHTS sold to Indonesian JV Offshore News 10 

AHTS supply Offshore News 7 

AHTS Vessel Island Vanguard Leaves Ulstein Verft Accident/Salvage 39 

Aker Arctic bags Chinese order Yard News 31 

Aker Solutions Sells ‘Lewek Connector’ to Ocean Yield AS Offshore News 41 

Aker wins $250m subsea deal from Total Offshore News 30 

Al Fenci Tugboat to Join Khalifa Port’s Fleet Tugs/Towing 32 

Alam Maritim Secures Charter Deal for Its Workboat Unit Offshore News 41 

Alexandr Zryachev home Tugs/Towing 52 

Alicat Workboats deliver latest catamaran Wind Farm 36 

Alicat Workboats deliver latest catamaran Wind Farm 38 

Alicat Workboats Sells Crew Transfer Vessel to Dalby 

Offshore Renewables 

Wind Farm 33 

Allseas fixes five Offshore News 4 

Almost 40 years old Tugs/Towing 31 

Alnmaritec delivers a new line handling boat for Ghana Offshore News 36 

Alnmaritec delivers new line handling boat to Exxon Offshore News 14 

Alpha Trion at the English Point Marina Yard News 9 

Alphatron relations day Tugs/Towing 36 

Aluminium catamaran 'Bat II' launched Offshore News 50 

Alwyn Vintcent Out of the Water! Tugs/Towing 19 

Al-Zawraa delivered Tugs/Towing 13 

American Steamship Charters ATB Tugs/Towing 6 

Amerstroom Launched Tugs/Towing 43 

Amstelstroom prosecuted work at offshore windfarm Tugs/Towing 16 

Amsterdam Bridge still hot and unwanted Accident/Salvage 40 

AMT Trader on the Clyde Tugs/Towing 46 

An Phong Offshore News 40 

Anchor Handling Tug / Supply Vessel delivered by Cheoy 

Lee 


Anchor Handling Tug Operations Offshore News 27 

Andre H and Ocean Delta at St.Catherines Tugs/Towing 51 

Anglian Prince returns to Scotland’s northern waters in 

disguise 


Anglian transformed into Union Tugs/Towing 40 

Anna 2 Tugs/Towing 14 

Another Cape Town visitor Offshore News 29 

Another charter to Yanbu Port Tugs/Towing 13 

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Another Damen casco arrived from Poland in Holland Tugs/Towing 51 

Another Damen New building on trails Tugs/Towing 25 

Another four Costa Concordia bodies recovered Accident/Salvage 8 

Another instalment of Grangemouth & Forth Towing Co Yesteryear 29 

Another Launching/Christening in Romania Tugs/Towing 17 

Another new building arrived in Stellendam Tugs/Towing 48 

Another newbuild delivered to West Africa Offshore News 43 

Another PX121 design contracted by Apache Offshore News 48 

Another spotted in Cape Town Offshore News 6 

Another succesful job for Spinola Tugs/Towing 37 

Another successful delivery voyage! Offshore News 38 

Another two Smit tugs sold Tugs/Towing 32 

Apache Charters PSV Blue Fighter for Work in UK North 

Sea 


Arctech Delivers Icebreaking Offshore Vessel ‘Vitus Bering’ Offshore News 52 

Arctech vessel delivered in advance Yard News 33 

Arctech Wins EUR 100 Mln Icebreaker Contract Yard News 52 

Arctic Icebreaker Is Born, in Louisiana Offshore News 13 

Ard-Jan Kooren Port Personality of the Year 2012 Tugs/Towing 49 

Arena announces the resale of a 62 tons bp tug Tugs/Towing 23 

Argus christened Tugs/Towing 10 

Arklow Marine hands over wind farm service vessel 

Gardian 8 

Wind Farm 11 

Arklow Marine Launches 20m WFSV Ahead of Schedule Wind Farm 26 

Arklow Marine Secures New Build Contract from Gardline Wind Farm 51 

Armada Tuah Cape Town News 8 

Armada Tuah 301 Cape Town News 11 

Army Corps of Engineers to Christen Its Newest Vessel MV 

Clinton 


Arthur J fuel removal completed; salvage operations 

continue 

Accident/Salvage 30 

ASD Tugboat with Highest Horsepower in China Delivered Tugs/Towing 34 

ASL launched RT Ambition Tugs/Towing 10 

ASL Marine launches new offshore vessel Offshore News 14 

ASL Marine Nets Orders for 5 New Vessels and Two Rig 

Upgrades 

Yard News 16 

ASP Work Boats Receives Two WFSV Built by Topaz 

Engineering (UAE) 

Wind Farm 20 

Asso Trenta leaving Marsaxlokk Harbour, Malta Malta News 5 

Astra-G fitting out at Damen-Maaskant Offshore News 49 

Atlantic chose Havyard Yard News 26 

Atlantic chose Havyard again Yard News 28 

Atlantic Fir - four tugs for Atlantic Towing Tugs/Towing 37 

Atlantic Fir suffered mechanical problems Accident/Salvage 1 

4/58


Atlantic Offshore Orders Two Platform Supply Vessels Yard News 27 

Atlantic Offshore sells PSV Accident/Salvage 39 

Attention tug masters Tugs/Towing 39 

Attention tug masters Offshore News 52 

Augstea tug in charter to Yanbu Port Tugs/Towing 13 

Austal books new orders for wind farm service vessels Wind Farm 42 

Austal to build new design wind farm support vessel for 

Turbine Transfers 

Wind Farm 2 

Austal to commence production in the Philippines Wind Farm 8 

Australian coal ship towing company faces labor strikes at 

Gladstone port 


Australian Government Buys Offshore Support Vessel from 

DOF 


Available for charter Tugs/Towing 44 

Azzawiya 4 & 6 – STu 1606 Damen deliveries 27 

BBB 

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Bad weather hinders efforts to tow oil rig 

Balahda & Bulgu Damen deliveries 27 

Baldo Dielen Joins Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. (GPA) in 

Brazil 


Baloe (II) Tugs/Towing 2 

Baloe 2 launched and christened Tugs/Towing 18 

Baltic Warrior towing Elousa Trikoukiotisa Tugs/Towing 21 

Baltsund towing Alk Tugs/Towing 2 

BARD Group Hires JB 117 Jack-Up Barge (Germany) Wind Farm 19 

Barge conversion means room for 60 Wind Farm 5 

Barge Osiris sold and towed to new owners Tugs/Towing 7 

Barge Worker Killed by Tugboat Propeller Tugs/Towing 47 

Basic Offshore Orders Two Havyard 832 PSVs Yard News 49 

Bed leveller Impisi Tugs/Towing 51 

Bergen Group BMV Wins Contract for Rebuilding of MV 

Polar Duchess 


Bergen Group Fosen to build construction vessel for 

Volstad Maritime 

Yard News 6 

Bergen Nabs USD 164.8 Mln OCV Contract Yard News 23 

5/58 

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Bhagwan Abrolhos on trails Tugs/Towing 27 

Bhagwan Houtman Tugs/Towing 28 

Bibby Offshore Announces Singapore Charter Agreement Offshore News 16 

Bibby Offshore Takes Over DSV Toisa Polaris Offshore News 45 

Big buzz at Damen Shipyards Den Helder Tugs/Towing 7 

Bigger tugboat will better manoeuvre large ships Tugs/Towing 22 

Bird's eye view of Anna Cosentino Malta News 16 

Bird's eye view of towage rig Noble Paul Romano Tugs/Towing 45 

Bisso Towboat takes deliver of ASD tractor tug newbuild Tugs/Towing 31 

Blackadder back from dry-docking Tugs/Towing 52 

Blackout – UK P&I Club Analysis Of Main Engine Failures Accident/Salvage 41 

Blessey christens 62nd tug, George Allen Tugs/Towing 5 

Blue Prosper Passes Rough Weather Test Offshore News 37 

Blyth Workcats Launches New Workboat Design Wind Farm 45 

BMT Nigel Gee to Design Vessels for BLRT Marketex Wind Farm 21 

BMT’S XSS Design Makes a Splash Wind Farm 43 

BNR 571660 commenced trails Tugs/Towing 1 

Boa Galatea Starts New Contract in Brazil Offshore News 46 

Boa Sub C contract extension Offshore News 3 

Boatany Salvor for sale Tugs/Towing 48 

Bocona delivered Tugs/Towing 36 

Boek van Piet Kars / Na vier eeuwen van Noort en van 

Spilbergen achterna 

Tugs/Towing 1 

Bogazici 10" is launched Tugs/Towing 18 

Bolivian boat detained in Halifax due to poor conditions Tugs/Towing 52 

Bollinger awarded six OSV conversions from Hornbeck Offshore News 41 

Bollinger delivers first Ocean class tug to Crowley Tugs/Towing 37 

Bollinger re-delivers modified barge and tug to Bouchard Tugs/Towing 13 

Boluda Abrego broken up Tugs/Towing 21 

Boluda Corporación Marítima celebrate the launching of a 

tugboat in its installations of Unión Naval Valencia 


Boluda Maritime tugs in for propulsion changes Tugs/Towing 35 

Boluda Takes Part in Ecoport Program Tugs/Towing 14 

Boluda tug Capsized and sank Tugs/Towing 38 

Bordelon Marine Inc. First of Three New 252 Stingray Class Yard News 

DP2 Vessels. 

32 

Boskalis acquires EUR 100 million offshore energy 

contracts 


Boskalis acquires wind park and offshore related contracts 

worth EUR 110 million 

Wind Farm 18 

Boskalis associate Smit Lamnalco signs 10-year terminal 

services contract 


Boskalis-Smit announce contract with Maersk Oil Offshore News 18 

Bourbon Liberty 245 made bunker call in Cape Town Offshore News 6 

Bourbon Offshore Takes Delivery of New PSV Offshore News 45 

6/58


Bourbon secures new contracts Offshore News 7 

Bourbon’s Ulysse for bunker call in Cape Town Offshore News 30 

Boxship Bareli grounding Accident/Salvage 12 

BP Places Order for 4 Platform Supply Vessels Yard News 20 

Brage Viking undergoes testing in Norway Offshore News 4 

Brand new Olympic Taurus in Den Helder Offshore News 49 

Brandaris with new nose and moonpool Tugs/Towing 13 

Brand-new Sound Enterprise delivered Wind Farm 50 

Brandon Bay Yesteryear 37 

Brave Tern delivered from Lamprell Shipyard Wind Farm 41 

Brazil’s Inace Shipyard delivers 'Siem Carajás' Offshore News 18 

Brazilian Shipyard builds Ulstein Designed PSVs Yard News 36 

Bridge Smit Schelde damaged Tugs/Towing 52 

British cargo ship freed from rocky Spanish coast Accident/Salvage 50 

Britoil to enter PSV market with PX121 pair Yard News 45 

Brocklebank Museum Liverpool Tugs/Towing 14 

Broken tugs stall oil tanker Tugs/Towing 39 

Brooklyn Bridge gets bashed. Crane on barge leaves a 

gouge 


Bulk carrier Ocean Breeze declared a total loss Accident/Salvage 41 

Bulk carrier Pacific Carrier broke in two, Korea Accident/Salvage 35 

Bulk carrier Pacific Sea under tow to San Francisco Accident/Salvage 17 

Bulkcarrier adrift in stormy seas off Zandvoort Accident/Salvage 50 

Bumi Armada Announces Newbuilding Program Yard News 25 

Bumi Armada Charters PSV to Petrobras Offshore News 12 

Bumi Armada Enters Five-Year Charter Contract in Mexico Offshore News 19 

Bumi Armada seals $48m charters Offshore News 43 

Bumi Armada Takes Delivery of Accommodation & Work 

Barge 


Bumi Armada wins Petrobras OSV contract Offshore News 3 

Bumi buys Sanko tug pair Offshore News 20 

Bunker call for Maersk trimmer in Cape Town Offshore News 31 

Bye Bye Tugs/Towing 12 

CCC 

Cable Enterprise 

Wind Farm 

21 

Cable Ship Erupts in Flames Off Namibian Coast Accident/Salvage 32 

Canadian Miner salvage gets green light Accident/Salvage 44 

Canadian Robert Allan Inks Cooperative Agreement with 

Rotortug 


Cape Nelson bent funnel Tugs/Towing 24 

Cape Town tug Palmiet Tugs/Towing 27 

Captain Omar Malta News 8 

Captain Praises Ulstein-built ‘Blue Fighter’ Supply Vessel Offshore News 21 

Cargo ship runs aground in St. Lawrence Seaway Accident/Salvage 43 

7/58


Cargo Vessel Aztec Maiden stranded on Dutch Coast Accident/Salvage 3 

Caribbean OSV launched in Florida Offshore News 2 

Carigali Hess to Charter AHTS from Alam Maritim Offshore News 45 

Carrickfergus Tugs/Towing 24 

Casco 571667 for Damen Hardinxveld Tugs/Towing 32 

Caspian Flotilla to add to auxiliary fleet new tug “RB-259" Tugs/Towing 44 

Castle Point Tugs/Towing 34 

Cathay Offshore 1 Cape Town News 13 

CBMM opens new tugboat exhibit April 21 Tugs/Towing 10 

CBO Takes Delivery of its New ULSTEIN Design PSV in 

Brazil 


Celia refloated and taken to Valencia Accident/Salvage 43 

Cemre Shipyard launches Vestland Mira Offshore News 17 

Centaurus towing Don Tugs/Towing 36 

Centaurus with Drydock from St.Petersburg to Gdynia Tugs/Towing 2 

Ceremony of keel-laying of the next Icebreaker project 

21900 M 

Yard News 50 

CH Offshore details bareboat charter with purchase option Offshore News 4 

Change of venue for ITS 2014 Tugs/Towing 42 

Charter Agreement for ‘Subsea Viking’ Offshore News 42 

Charter contract for new dual fuelled PSV Offshore News 35 

Charter contracts Skandi Texel and Highland Monarch 

extended 


Charters NSF Vladimir Ignatyuk to Support U.S. Research 

Stations in Antarctica 


Cheoy Lee delivers first pair of OSV to Mohammad Al Mojil Offshore News 25 

Cheoy Lee Delivers the 21st Z-Tech Tug to Panama Canal 

Cheoy Lee Delivers Tug ‘GPC Baru’ Tugs/Towing 51 

Cheoy Lee latest delivery RAmparts 3200CL ASD Tug Tugs/Towing 45 

Chesapeake Shipbuilding Adds Another Tug To It's Order 

Book 

Yard News 3 

China’s Largest Deep-Sea Salvage Vessel Delivered Offshore News 32 

Chouest wins MSC contract worth potential $43.1 million Offshore News 46 

Christening ASD Tugs SD Rover, SD Rebel and SD 

Ranger 


Christening Ceremony of Damen High Speed Support 

Vessel at Seawork 2012 

Wind Farm 21 

Christening Ceremony of Tugboat and Barge at Erie’s 

Bayfront Shipyard 


Christening Ocean Wave postponed Tugs/Towing 19 

Christine Mary entering Lyttleton Tugs/Towing 32 

Christos XXII enters Rotterdam to clear tow wire Tugs/Towing 50 

Clara B continue - How wrong could one be! Tugs/Towing 46 

Clara B reported “Moving Again” Tugs/Towing 41 

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Clara B reports Tugs/Towing 48 

Clara B with barge Par 10002 from Malaysia to Uruguay 

continue 


CMS SEALION towing the 52m barge SANTORINI III Tugs/Towing 20 

CNOOC contracts for China’s first LNG-fuelled tugs Tugs/Towing 28 

CNOOC ship sinks near Hong Kong Offshore News 30 

Coast Guard continues to monitor sunken vessel Tugs/Towing 15 

Coast Guard medevacs one from Offshore Supply vessel Offshore News 31 

Coast Guard responds to report of sheen on Monongahela 

River 


Coast Guard responds to vessel grounding near Sabine Accident/Salvage 9 

Coast Guard says tug not damaged in grounding near 

Cordova 


Coast Guard suspends search for overboard Tug Master Tugs/Towing 17 

Coast Guard takes action to protect environment from 

vessel adrift off Oregon Coast 


Coastal bags offshore vessel orders Yard News 39 

Coastal Challenger in Den Helder; Netherlands Tugs/Towing 26 

Coastal inks order for 12 offshore vessels Yard News 28 

Coastal Sells Two AHTS and One Subsea Support Vessel Accident/Salvage 39 

Coastal Vanguard saves Allure-G Accident/Salvage 2 

Coaster Jireh ran aground on Mona Island, Puerto Rico Accident/Salvage 25 

Cochin Delivers SCI Ahimsa AHTS to SCI Offshore News 32 

Cochin Shipyard Delivers New AHTS to SCI Offshore News 14 

Cochin Shipyard Delivers SCI Yamuna Offshore News 48 

Cochin Shipyard Hands Over New PSV ‘Brage Trader’ to 

Its Owner 


Cochin Shipyard launches two offshore supply vessels Offshore News 32 

Cochin Shipyard Launches Two PSVs for Shipping 

Corporation of India 

Yard News 2 

Collision in the Kiel Canal Accident/Salvage 7 

Colombo Dockyard Delivers ROV Support Vessel to 

Greatship 


Colombo Dockyard launches new vessel for Greatship Offshore News 11 

Colombo wins OSV conversion and repair contract Yard News 36 

Comment on Yesteryear Tugs/Towing 41 

Compass departed with loaded barge bound for Brazil Tugs/Towing 45 

Concordia wreck stays put Accident/Salvage 42 

Construction of Two Macduff – Designed Tugs Progresses Tugs/Towing 52 

Construction of Wagenborg’s Icebreakers Nears 

Completion 


Construction starts of two pioneering icebreaking supply 

vessels 

Yard News 4 

Contract award for Nor Tigerfish Offshore News 33 

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Contract for DOF’s PSV Skandi Falcon in Australia Offshore News 4 

Conversion of DP Gezina started Wind Farm 48 

Converted superyacht Lone Ranger for sale Tugs/Towing 17 

Correction on Baltsund article Tugs/Towing 3 

Correction on the sale of the Yewgarth Tugs/Towing 47 

Corringham on station Tugs/Towing 7 

COSCO Bags 4 PSV Orders Yard News 12 

COSCO Nantong Delivers ‘SEA INSTALLER’ Wind Farm 46 

Cosco Shipyard to Construct Specialized Wind Turbine 

Installation Jack-Up for Denmark’s A2SEA 

Wind Farm 13 

COSCO: Four PSV Contracts Become Effective (China) Yard News 52 

COSL newbuild runs aground Accident/Salvage 3 

COSL Selects Havyard Design for Four Vessels Yard News 50 

Costa Allegra under tow after engine room fire Accident/Salvage 9 

Costa Calls on Salvage Companies for Ship Removal Plans Accident/Salvage 5 

Costa Concordia clean-up operations continue Accident/Salvage 15 

Costa Concordia fuel removal to begin Monday Accident/Salvage 6 

Costa Concordia keel deformed Accident/Salvage 40 

Costa Concordia Removal – Salvage Tenders in Hand Accident/Salvage 14 

Costa Concordia salvage team brings in Micoperi 61 

platform 


Costa Concordia to be towed away no earlier than 

September 2013 


Costa Concordia Update 25 th January 

10/58 



Costa Concordia update 28 th February 

Costa Concordia Update: Salvage Timeline Altered, Wreck 

Site Provides Local Tourism Boom 


Costa Concordia Wreck Removal Video, Not Quite 

Accurate 


Costa Concordia: Second tank completely empty Accident/Salvage 7 

Courbet and Lore crossing Turkeys straits Tugs/Towing 47 

Craig Group to Build Two PSVs for Talisman Contract Yard News 6 

Craig Group wins contracts for new D class vessels Offshore News 18 

Craig Group’s Largest Ship Launched in Spain Offshore News 51 

Cranes arrived Safely in Vigo Tugs/Towing 42 

Cranes finally departed from Amsterdam Tugs/Towing 41 

Cranes on transport Tugs/Towing 21 

Crew boat experience transfers to windfarms Wind Farm 43 

Crew of tugboat rescued from sea Tugs/Towing 4 

Crew Tug Neptun 10 Saving Sealife Tugs/Towing 49 

Cronus commenced trails Tugs/Towing 13 

Crowley and PB Towage Form Alliance Tugs/Towing 6 

Crowley Christens New ATB in Tampa Tugs/Towing 40 

Crowley Delivers USS Iowa to Los Angeles Tugs/Towing 22


Crowley Featured in the "LA Times" for "USS Iowa" Tow Tugs/Towing 20 

Crowley Maritime & Jensen Maritime Awarded at 

International Workboat Show 


Crowley Sends ATB to Guantanamo Bay Tugs/Towing 24 

Crowley to Tow the USS Iowa from San Francisco to Los 

Angeles Tomorrow, Sat., May 26 


Crowley’s First Ocean Class Tugboat Performs Inaugural 

Job in Cuba alongside Subsidiary TITAN Salvage 


Crowley’s Tugboat Guard Performs Heroic Rescue Tugs/Towing 46 

CSS Accomodator progress 23-05-2012 Yard News 21 

CSV Normand Fortress Remains in Mexico for Another 

Year 


CTruk Boats launches CWind Athenia in Boat Share 

Scheme 

Wind Farm 6 

CTruk Boats Secures Five Orders at Seawork 2012 Yard News 21 

CTruk Boats Signs First Export Order Wind Farm 20 

CTruk Export order delivered to Sima Charters of Holland Wind Farm 44 

CTruk launches second vessel for Offshore Turbine 

Services as work begins on a third 

Wind Farm 28 

CTruk orders two Wind Farm 1 

CWind deploys a crew vessel to London Array and another 

to Teeside! 

Wind Farm 46 

CWind welcomes Sir Tim McClement to the board Wind Farm 37 

CWind Wins Major Contract With DONG Energy Wind Farm 21 

Cyklop with a new Damen-Tugboat Poland to Dordrecht Tugs/Towing 48 

DDD 

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DAFF Fleet 

Dalby Offshore buys two transfer vessels from Alicat 

Workboats 

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Cape Town News 14 

Wind Farm 12 

Dalgrain Yesteryear 26 


Damen and Kuwait Oil Company signed contract for 14 

ASD tugs


Damen building continue Tugs/Towing 44 

Damen casco 571665 delivered to Hardinxveld Tugs/Towing 25 

Damen casco underway from Poland to Netherlands Tugs/Towing 51 

Damen delivered the SVS Cochrane Offshore News 22 

Damen delivers ‘silent’ Research Vessel ‘Simon Stevin’ to 

Flemish Government 


Damen delivers ASD Tug 3213 with 85 t BP to INTERTUG Tugs/Towing 14 

Damen delivers two Azimuth Tractor Drive Tugs 2412 to 

fast growing KOTUG 


Damen launches its first ever hybrid tug Yard News 43 

Damen recently delivered Kuzbass Tugs/Towing 51 

Damen recently delivered StanTug Otuoke Tugs/Towing 43 

Damen Secures Pontoons and Landing Crafts Orders Yard News 48 

Damen Shipyard Changde delivers four Multi Cat’s 1205 Tugs/Towing 51 

Damen Shipyard delivered ASD 3111 tug Capo Noli Tugs/Towing 1 

Damen Shipyards awarded to build Modular Dock for the 

Port of Djibouti 

Yard News 8 

Damen Shipyards bouwt drie identieke ASD 2810 

sleepboten voor KOTUG 

Yard News 13 

Damen Shipyards delivers Stan Tug 1205 to UK recycling 

and construction company S. Walsh & Sons 


Damen Shipyards Den Helder Wins ‘Polarcus Adira’ 

Modification Contract 


Damen Shipyards Group adapts swiftly to new Argentinian 

import regulations 

Yard News 38 

Damen Shipyards launches longest pontoon ever Yard News 21 

Damen shipyards presents AHTS 200 design at SMM 2012 Offshore News 36 

Damen Shipyards receives three orders for five pontoons Yard News 4 

Damen Shipyards unveils new type of ASD Tug at ITS Tugs/Towing 22 

Damen Shipyards, Smit Lamnalco Ink Tugboat Deal at 

SMM 2012 


Damen Stantug Cape Town News 8 

Damen to Build New Boats for Port of Salandha Yard News 30 

Damen to deliver 16 pontoons Yard News 34 

Dandong builds high-powered tug Tugs/Towing 22 

Danish government icebreakers for sale Offshore News 49 

Danish Yachts unveils Seastrider SWATH Wind Farm 5 

Dankbetuiging Tugs/Towing 47 

Danube piracy a growing concern for regional shipping Tugs/Towing 5 

Danube's Melting Ice Causes Ship to Sink, Trapped 

Smaller Boats Now Free-Floating 

Deep Sea Supply Secures Four Long Term Contracts in 

Brazil 

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Tugs/Towing 9 

Offshore News 8


Deep Sea Supply Wins AHTS Deals in Malaysia Offshore News 45 

DeepOcean Gets IMR Contract Extension from Statoil Offshore News 49 

DeepOcean Receives 1 Year Option for Edda Flora Offshore News 38 

DeepOcean sound of Statoil cash Offshore News 4 

DeepOcean Wins Contracts for Two Vessels from Statoil Offshore News 5 

Deepsea Metro II Tugs/Towing 1 

Delivery of MARIN Mermaid Simulator to SMIT Towage 

Northwest Europe 


Delivery of Multipurpose Offshore Vessel Olympic 

Commander 


Delphin and Kasakta delivered Tugs/Towing 23 

Deployment of Vessel SEAMEC III Offshore News 32 

Destined for the North Sea Market. STX OSV Delivers the 

Far Scotsman 


Diesel to Be Pumped Off Chamarel ck Accident/Salvage 34 

Disabled cargo ship towed to Rendsburg Accident/Salvage 27 

Disabled freighter Zealand Beatrix towed to Ponta Delgada Accident/Salvage 19 

Disabled Markborg towed safely in port Accident/Salvage 35 

Disabled tug makes repairs at sea Tugs/Towing 29 

Disappeared ship Amurskaya found on seabed Accident/Salvage 45 

DMS Condor seen at Port Rashid Tugs/Towing 42 

DOF Extends Contract with OGX for AHTS Skandi Mogster Offshore News 2 

DOF Fix AHTS 'Skandi Emerald' Charter Offshore News 43 

DOF Group Holds Naming Ceremony for Biggest AHT 

Vessel Built in Brazil 


DOF Inks New Contract for PSV Skandi Waveney Offshore News 3 

DOF Orders OSCV from STX OSV Yard News 12 

DOF Secures New PSV Contracts with Shell Offshore News 4 

DOF Secures Two Contracts in Brazil Offshore News 41 

DOF Subsea announces new contracts Offshore News 17 

DOF Subsea Australia secures service contract by Eni Offshore News 36 

DOF Subsea books contracts worth $50 million Offshore News 42 

DOF Subsea Gets New Contracts Offshore News 22 

DOF Subsea Group has been awarded multiple new 

contracts 


DOF takes delivery of Skandi Hawk Offshore News 6 

DOF Wins FPSO Mooring Contract in India Offshore News 33 

DOF, Maersk extend charter contract for PSV Skandi 

Caledonia 


DOF’s Skandi Atlantic to Work for Apache in Australia Offshore News 18 

Doing it Big in Brazil Offshore News 28 

Dolphin Christens Polar Duchess Seismic Vessel Offshore News 14 

Dolphin Geo wins Letter of Award for survey offshore India Offshore News 4 

13/58


Dolphin Geophysical Enters Seismic Survey Contract in 

South Africa 


Dolphin secures multi-client agreement and 3D deal for 

Polar Duke 


Donjon Marine’s Articulated Tug Wins ‘Significant Boats in 

2012′ Award 

Tugs/Towing 2 

Draining of fuel due to start Accident/Salvage 12 

Dranske sold for scrapping Tugs/Towing 23 

Drydock and Tug Sink at Vigor’s Everett, WA Shipyard Tugs/Towing 12 

Duchray and Boquhan Yesteryear 35 

Dunston Shipbuilders Ltd. to build Alicat wotkboats inder 

licence 

Wind Farm 17 

Dutch Blue bound for Rotterdam Tugs/Towing 35 

Dutch Blue enroute from China to Holland Tugs/Towing 31 

Dutch Blue for the very first time in Holland Tugs/Towing 50 

Dutch BMS Towing chooses green antifouling solution for 

their tug Willem-B Sr 


Dutch invention prevents towline failure on tugboats Tugs/Towing 22 

Dutch Operator Hires Seasafe Supporter for Gabon Ops Offshore News 33 

Dutch Pearl towed SD Newton to Belgium Tugs/Towing 34 

Dutch tug “Ouwe Piet” sank in Rotterdam Tugs/Towing 26 

Dynamic Installer Cape Town News 13 

EEE 

Eagle 2 renamed 

Offshore News 

40 

Early morning fire on Lake Ontario Accident/Salvage 13 

Eastern Shipbuilding Delivers Second Tiger Shark Class 

Vessel 


Eastern Shipbuilding delivers towboat to Settoon Towing Tugs/Towing 1 

Eastern Shipbuilding Hands Over OSV HARVEY 

SUPPORTER 


Eastern Shipbuilding Launches New OSV for Harvey Gulf Offshore News 51 

Edda Ferd PSV Launched in Spain Offshore News 42 

EDDA FIDES offshore Vinaros, Spain Malta News 10 

Edda Fjord taking over from the accommodation ship Edda 

Fides 

Malta News 16 

EDDY Explained – Part 1 Tugs/Towing 16 

EDDY EXPLAINED – PART 2 – MANEUVERING BASICS Tugs/Towing 17 

EDDY Explained – Part 3 – Bow operations Tugs/Towing 18 

EDDY Explained – Part 4 – Stern Operations Tugs/Towing 19 

EDDY Explained – Part 5 - Propulsion Systems Tugs/Towing 20 

EDDY Explained – Part 6 – Portfolio Tugs/Towing 21 

EDT Leda commenced trails Offshore News 3 

EDT Nefeli commenced trails Offshore News 6 

14/58


EDT Offshore takes delivery of two Damen Fast Crew 

Suppliers 


EDT Offshore/Maersk charter Havila Jupiter Offshore News 32 

Eduardo Autran outlines US$235.5 billion Petrobras 

spending plans 

Yard News 48 

Eidesvik buys New vessel for North Sea Yard News 18 

Eidesvik Charters Viking Prince PSV to Lundin Offshore News 13 

Eidesvik Holds Naming Ceremony for Its Newbuild ‘Viking 

Prince’ 


Eidesvik Orders Large Subsea Vessel from Kleven Yard News 23 

Eidesvik Secures Charter Deals Worth USD 168 Mln Offshore News 24 

Eidesvik Sells Two Supply Vessels in Brazil Offshore News 18 

Ekulo Explorer moored in Cape Town Offshore News 7 

El Moundjid Tugs/Towing 1 

El Moundjid on trails Tugs/Towing 5 

El Mous’if on trails Tugs/Towing 26 

El Moussanid on trails Tugs/Towing 40 

Elbe back after B & P at the Keppel-Verolme yard Tugs/Towing 30 

Elbe shifted to Keppel Verolme Tugs/Towing 28 

Elena B lost engine power in front of Topkapi Palace Accident/Salvage 2 

EMAS AMC wins Statoil contracts in the North Sea Offshore News 2 

EMAS Marine strengthens global position with US$87m in 

contract wins 


EMAS/AMC extends the charter for AHT URANUS, AHT 

ORCUS and AHT URSUS 


Emergency Tugboat Provision: AMSA Invites Tenders Tugs/Towing 50 

EMGS Extends Charter for Atlantic Guardian Offshore News 49 

Emoe & Kiwi departed from Cape Town Tugs/Towing 7 

Emre Omur Offshore News 49 

Emy for sale Offshore News 47 

En Avant 10 commenced trails Tugs/Towing 33 

End of an Era as Last of Old Dublin Port Towage Fleet Sold Tugs/Towing 18 

Energy Vessels Offshore Appoints German Renewables 

Shipbrokers as Brokers 

Wind Farm 1 

Engine failure in Kiel Canal Accident/Salvage 51 

Engine room fire Bourbon Tampen Accident/Salvage 38 

Engine troubles for tug Wulf 7 Tugs/Towing 30 

ENP’s Floating Dock/Shipyard Starts Journey to Luanda 

Bay, Angola 


Enquest takes Incomparable Offshore News 32 

Enviroserve Ltd orders two 24 metre wind farm catamarans 

from French builder Navalu 

Wind Farm 9 

ER Offshore Extends its GNSS Contract with Veripos Offshore News 28 

Erie-built tugboat honored by industry publication Tugs/Towing 8 

ERRV FSV New buildings for Vroon Yard News 36 

Esnaad 714 commenced trails Offshore News 42 

15/58


España II Tugs/Towing 5 

ESS Lays Keel for Vroon’s New ERRV Yard News 42 

Europe’s first Hybrid Rotor tug E-Kotug operating in the 

Port of Rotterdam 


Eurosund sold Tugs/Towing 44 

Ex Patrol Boat HELGOLAND sold Offshore News 18 

Exercise of repurchase options for Havila Mars and Havila 

Mercury 


Exhaust Emission Regulations and their Impact on Tugboat 

Design 

Tugs/Towing 9 

Expanding the Crew Boat Fleet Wind Farm 10 

Expanding tug fleet for River Thames work Tugs/Towing 40 

Expansion of Personnel and activities Tugs/Towing 37 

Express Offshore Solutions Wins Pipe Transport Contracts Offshore News 13 

Extension of contract for Viking Supply Ships Offshore News 51 

Extension of Contracts for Two Vessels Wind Farm 28 

Extensive newbuild programme for Svitzer Tugs/Towing 12 

ExxonMobil Charters Two SILK’s AHTS Vessels Offshore News 29 

ExxonMobil sublets PSV to Statoil Offshore News 9 

Ezra bags offshore deals worth USD 120 million Offshore News 2 

FFF 

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Fairmount Alpine in escort service 

Tugs/Towing 

11 

Fairmount Alpine towed drifting MV Elbcarrier into safety Tugs/Towing 30 

Fairmount Alpine towed rig Ocean Whittington to Gulf Tugs/Towing 20 

Fairmount Expedition delivered MSC Flaminia in 

Wilhelmshaven 


Fairmount Expedition delivered rig Scarabeo 6 in 

Rotterdam 


Fairmount Fuji assisted diving team of Octomar Tugs/Towing 47 

Fairmount Fuji assisted drillship Stena Forth Tugs/Towing 13 

Fairmount Fuji assisted in well intervention operation Tugs/Towing 30 

Fairmount Fuji assisted Stena Icemax Tugs/Towing 24 

Fairmount Glacier assisted in salvage operation Tugs/Towing 17 

Fairmount Sherpa delivered drillship Peregrine 1 in 

Singapore 


16/58


Fairmount Sherpa towed rig ODN Tay IV to Brazil Tugs/Towing 18 

Fairmount Sherpa tows rig Atwood Condor in record time 

from Mauritius to Trinidad 


Fairmount Summit delivers drilling rig Delba III in Brazil Tugs/Towing 9 

Fairmount Summit towed Acergy Polaris to Gabon Tugs/Towing 13 

Fairmount tugs deliver FPSO Cidade de Anchieta in Brazil Tugs/Towing 31 

Fairplay 33 towing Bibby Progress Tugs/Towing 31 

Fairplay-24 Tugs/Towing 6 

Farewell Giant 4 Yard News 30 

Farewell to Far Splendour Offshore News 52 

Farstad Enters Charter Deals Worth USD 233 Million Offshore News 24 

Farstad Sells Two AHTS Vessels Offshore News 10 

Farstad Sells Two Anchor Handlers Offshore News 16 

Farstad Shipping ASA – Charter agreements Offshore News 26 

Farstad Shipping Secures Charter Contracts for Its Vessels 

in Australia 


Farstad Takes Delivery of Far Solitaire PSV Offshore News 40 

Farstad to take delivery of PSV complying with chemical 

tanker requirements 


Fate KTK tugs still unknown Tugs/Towing 12 

FGM Honour Cape Town News 13 

Final voyage for the tug Singapore under Svitzer flag Tugs/Towing 49 

Finland's new LNG patrol boat starts production Yard News 45 

Fire on Amsterdam Bridge under control but situation 

critical 


Fire on icebreaker Accident/Salvage 49 

Fire on Multi-Cat Tugs/Towing 37 

Fire on Tug Boat in Hickman Tugs/Towing 37 

Firebird's non dramatic rescue Accident/Salvage 1 

first ‘Raptor Class’ Anchor Handling Tug Launched Offshore News 45 

First Argentinian-owned Damen ASD 2810 tug arrives in 

Buenos Aires 

Tugs/Towing 9 

First blocks of the CSS Accommodator taking shape Yard News 5 

First Bourbon Evolution 800 delivered Offshore News 8 

First class Captain from Alnmaritec Wind Farm 21 

First Damen Fast Crew Supplier built in Ecuador Yard News 11 

First DAMEN Stan Tug 4011 has been launched to water Tugs/Towing 35 

First Javelin 22.22 baptized "Guardian" and signing 

contract Boskalis/Heinrich Hirdes 

Wind Farm 26 

First Korean icebreaker to explore Arctic Ocean Offshore News 20 

First of Four GPA 688SC PSVs Launched in Brazil Offshore News 31 

First of two ice-breaking supply vessels for Sovcomflot 

launched 

Yard News 27 

First order for Damen Shiprepair Brest Yard News 16 

First RAmpage 4500 Class Offshore Support Tug Tugs/Towing 9 

17/58


First Service Vessels “SeaZip”for Offshore Wind Farms 

have been launched 

Wind Farm 28 

First ship delivery contract for TOS from P&O Maritime Tugs/Towing 46 

First Steel Cut for Liftboat ‘Seajacks Hydra’ Wind Farm 49 

First view Tugs/Towing 16 

First Voith Water Tractor with Fully Electronic Control 

System in Operation in Japanese Waters 


First winches for 14 tug order underway Tugs/Towing 41 

Five bodies found after Collision on the North Sea Accident/Salvage 49 

Five launchings in as many months Tugs/Towing 31 

Fjell spotted in Vigo Offshore News 7 

Fjord Cape Town News 8 

Fleet expansion for SVITZER Americas Tugs/Towing 21 

Floating turbines for offshore wind farms Wind Farm 31 

Flying Falcon Yesteryear 42 

Flying Fulmar Yesteryear 39 

Flying Scout Yesteryear 40 

Flying Spray Yesteryear 41 

FOB newbuilding sets new standards Wind Farm 49 

Following famous footsteps Wind Farm 37 

Former Dutch tugs and their fate Tugs/Towing 47 

Former Europoort tug arrived for the tugboat harbour day Tugs/Towing 19 

Former Svitzer Liwa now Mistral entering Valletta Tugs/Towing 31 

Forth Yesteryear 28 

Forth third in name for Forth Tugs Ltd Yesteryear 32 

Forth Trojan Tugs/Towing 35 

Fortunagracht holed Accident/Salvage 45 

Foss Hybrid Tug Suffers Machinery Fire Tugs/Towing 34 

Foss Maritime to Expand Ocean Tug Fleet Tugs/Towing 35 

Four units Barges from Yalova - Turkey to Caspian Sea Tugs/Towing 46 

FP26 in drydock at Maaskant Tugs/Towing 11 

Fred. Olsen Windcarrier wins contract for Brave Tern Wind Farm 50 

Freighters Celia and BSLE Sunrise beached by storm off 

Valencia 


French builder Navalu adds 18 metre multiservice cat to its 

fleet of wind farm service cats 

Wind Farm 10 

From Korea to Bangladesh Tugs/Towing 45 

From major fleet overhaul to new tug construction Tugs/Towing 12 

Frozen rivers Tugs/Towing 7 

Fuel draining finished Accident/Salvage 12 

Fugro Receives New Survey Vessel Offshore News 31 

Fujian Southeast Shipyard Delivers Subsea Support 

Vessels VOS Shine 


Fujian Southeast Shipyard Hands Over AHTS Vessel VOS 

Thalassa 


Full loaded safely to Rotterdam Offshore News 12 

18/58


Further success for BT Marine in the UAE Tugs/Towing 7 

GGG 

Gardline will be taking delivery of two new 20m 

Catamarans 

Wind Farm 

4 

GC Rieber Shipping Secures Charter Contract for Two 

Vessels 


GDF SUEZ Hires ‘SeaMar Splendid’ for Five Years Offshore News 52 

GE Marine Engines for Panama Canal New Tug Boats Tugs/Towing 24 

Gelso M Accident/Salvage 14 

General Cargo Vessel “EVERTON” fire in the engineroom Accident/Salvage 44 

GEOSHIPS Extends Fleet Following Successful Year for 

First Vessel 


Gibdock completes semi-sub project Yard News 34 

GL provides classification for WFSVs Wind Farm 32 

Global Offshore Sells AHTS Vessel M V Garware-V Offshore News 1 

Global Offshore Services Buys AHTSV Offshore News 28 

Global Workboats Charters Otto Marine’s AHTS Vessel Offshore News 6 

Go Copella towed Eit Palimina into Port of Albany Accident/Salvage 29 

Goedkoop exhibition in Sea- & Harbour museum Tugs/Towing 7 

Goes for four more PSV’s from Ulstein Yard News 23 

Gondan Shipyard Delivers Third Ship Built for Fratelli Neri Tugs/Towing 2 

Goodbye Rotterdam & London Tugs/Towing 52 

Gouwestroom heading to Caribbean Tugs/Towing 40 

Gouwestroom provided several towages Tugs/Towing 29 

Grandweld Delivers First of Three Fast Aluminum Crew 

Boats to Zamil Offshore 


Grandweld Delivers the second of two Service Boats to 

Kuwait Oil Tanker Company 


Grandweld Delivers Two 55 Tons Bollard Pull Escort 

Tugboats to Abu Dhabi Ports Company 


Grandweld Shipyards Delivers DMSV Aradah to ADNOC Offshore News 8 

Grapetree Bay on Bonaire Tugs/Towing 16 

Great lakes shipyard and The Great Lakes Towing 

Company jointly complete Pittsburgh tank contract 


Great Lakes Shipyard Completes First Repair Contract with 

a Canadian Tug-Barge Company 


Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, Ohio Delivers Completed Tugs/Towing 

Work Boat for Port of Milwaukee 

3 

Great Yarmouth lifeboat crews on standby at stranded tug 

and barge 


Greatship Adds New Addition in Its AHTS Fleet Offshore News 1 

Greatship cancels newbuilds Offshore News 1 

Greatship cancels shipbuilding contract for MPSV Offshore News 3 

19/58


Greatship Delivers Platform Supply and Support Vessel to 

Buyers 


Greatship Global Offshore Sells Multipurpose PSV 

‘Greatship Mamta’ 


Greatship Takes Delivery of New AHTS Vessel from 

Drydocks 


Greatship’s Subsidiary Takes Delivery of “Greatship 

Roopa” 


Greening the Port with Wilmington Tug Tugs/Towing 28 

Grounded cargo ship needs third tugboat Accident/Salvage 40 

Grounded Freighter Gets Cut Up in Puerto Rico Accident/Salvage 34 

Grounded 'Mersa 2' towed back to port in Italy Accident/Salvage 26 

Grounded tug, barge recovered from Aleutian island Accident/Salvage 49 

Grounded Vessel on Christmas Island, Australia Breaks in 

Two (update from above) 


Grounding off Esbjerg Accident/Salvage 42 

Group Ocean Tugs pulled of the Sedna Desgagnes Tugs/Towing 43 

Growth in Offshore Wind Parks Is Good News for Shipdock Wind Farm 51 

GSHI-Delivery news-54M OSV Offshore News 2 

GSP Denies Rumors of Selling Pipelay Vessel Offshore News 34 

Gudri free to sail Tugs/Towing 52 

Gulf Craft Builds Incat Crowther 55m Catamaran Crew 

Boats 

Yard News 18 

GulfMark Offshore Announces Construction of Two PSVs 

for US Gulf of Mexico 

Yard News 30 

GulfMark Offshore raises funds for newbuilds Offshore News 49 

GulfMark Orders Two PSV Vessels from BAE Systems Yard News 32 

Gulmar Da Vinci for bunker call in Cape Town Offshore News 7 

Gulmar vessels renamed Offshore News 35 

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Hako 20 renamed 

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48 

Hallin Marine Charters Stril Explorer for North Sea and 

Mediterranean 


Hallin Marine commences new Korean offshore ROV Offshore News 43 

20/58


Hallin Marine Starts Support Job at Zawtika Gas Field 

Offshore Myanmar 


Hallin Marine Starts Year with Four New Contracts Offshore News 6 

Halul Offshore Places Order for Four Offshore Vessels in 

India 

Yard News 23 

Halul Offshore Secures USD 60 Million for Fleet 

Expansion 


Hamburg levies 15pc ice-tug surcharge as arctic weather 

grips Europe 

Tugs/Towing 7 

Handin Tide visit Cape Town Offshore News 26 

Handy Three commenced trails Tugs/Towing 15 

Hans van der Donck died age 57 Tugs/Towing 44 

Harrison discontinue its shipyard activities Yard News 20 

Harvey Gulf Acquires Bee Mar LLC's Assets Offshore News 23 

Harvey Gulf becomes first U.S. company to contract LNGpowered 

OSVs 


Harvey Gulf to stretch Bee Mar OSVs, adds to TY 

newbuilds 


Harvey orders more LNG OSV’s from Trinity Yard News 6 

Havila Shipping ASA - Charter contracts Offshore News 4 

Havila Shipping ASA - Sale of ownership in "Seven Havila" Offshore News 50 

Havila Shipping ASA : Contracts - value of NOK 350m Offshore News 15 

Havila Shipping ASA : Delivery of PSV vessel Havila 

Charisma 


Havila Shipping ASA: New Charter Contracts - value about 

NOK 400 million 

Havila Shipping ASA: Statoil has declared options for two 

vessels 


Havyard Delivers Kan Tan 225 to Sinopec Offshore News 48 

Havyard Secures Order from India Yard News 22 

Havyard Sells PSV to Vestland Offshore Offshore News 8 

Havyard Signs USD 51.6 Mln Contract for Next 

Generation 832 Class PSV 

Yard News 35 

Hay K is not OK in Samsun Accident/Salvage 6 

Hearing in White Whale case in UAE adjourned Accident/Salvage 42 

Heavy lift cranes position to raise Costa Concordia Accident/Salvage 43 

Hebron Sea - scrapped Offshore News 38 

Heerema tug Bylgia launched at Armon Tugs/Towing 47 

Helicopters to remove pieces of Rena wreck Accident/Salvage 33 

Helix ROV Support Vessel Ready for North Sea Offshore News 40 

Helix Well Ops Charters Skandi Constructor Offshore News 33 

21/58 


Help? Tugs/Towing 4 


Herman Senior expands her fleet with 2 additional 

shoalbusters 

HGO Takes Delivery of Heavy Lift Jack-Up Vessel in 

Poland 

Wind Farm 33


Hijacked tug and barge found, crew rescued Tugs/Towing 32 

Hindusthan Shipyard delivers bollard pull tug to Vizag port Tugs/Towing 33 

Historic Australian tug Wattle Tugs/Towing 19 

HMCS Athabaskan on the way Tugs/Towing 52 

Holyhead company wins multi-million pound Gwynt y Mor 

contract 

Wind Farm 30 

Horizon Shipbuilding Delivers Motor Vessel to Army Corps Tugs/Towing 15 

Horizon Shipbuilding delivers towboats Tugs/Towing 45 

Hornbeck expands OSV newbuild program Offshore News 36 

Hornbeck Signs with Eastern Shipbuilding for Two OSV's Yard News 42 

Hotel ship ready by offshore windmill park Wind Farm 51 

Houndpoint’s first Chieftain and Flying Childers Yesteryear 34 

How to Drive a Z-Tug Tugs/Towing 46 

Hua An in Setubal Tugs/Towing 8 

Hudson for drydocking Tugs/Towing 39 

Hull 762 under tow of the Frigga Tugs/Towing 39 

Hunter on station Tugs/Towing 5 

Hypsas on the spot market Tugs/Towing 30 

Hyundai HT 112 lost propulsion Tugs/Towing 8 

III 

Ibaizabal Diez and Ibaizabal Once, Two New High 

Performance Escort Tugs from Robert Allan Ltd 

22/58 

Tugs/Towing 

Icebreaker 'Urho' Machinery Renovation by Protacon Offshore News 27 

Icebreakers / Supply Vessels for Caspian Sea Offshore News 9 

Ice-breaking Tug Returns to USCG Base Tugs/Towing 12 

Ice-class Tugboat Launched in Archangel Shipyard Tugs/Towing 33 

Iceman orders anchor handler from STX OSV Yard News 15 

Iceni Marine Services Takes Delivery of WFSV ‘Iceni 

Defiant’ from South Boats (UK) 

Wind Farm 9 

IHC Beaver Dredgers New DMC1400 Workboat Delivered Tugs/Towing 39 

IHC Delivers Delta Multi Craft Workboat to Subsea7 Tugs/Towing 46 

IHC Merwede to Build Three Pipelayers for Brazilian 

Waters 

Yard News 9 

IMC Brokers - 19m Multicat For Sale Tugs/Towing 5 

Important tug driving skills are being lost Tugs/Towing 5 

IMSV Serkeborg delivered Offshore News 42 

In Search of World War II Coastal Barge and Tug Seamen Tugs/Towing 38 

Incat Crowther to Design Catamaran WFSV Wind Farm 27 

Incat Crowther Wins Order for Design of Catamaran Dive 

Support Vessel 


Incat to Design Fast Supply Vessels for Brazilian Offshore 

Market 

Yard News 14 

Indonesian Authorities Rescue Hijacked Tug Boat Tugs/Towing 1 

47


Indus in drydock Tugs/Towing 36 

Indus towed to Shipyard Reimerswaal Tugs/Towing 35 

Ingoy to Oeresund Baadservice Wind Farm 6 

Inland LNG Push Tug Tugs/Towing 37 

Inland push boat for sale – U.S. Gulf Coast Tugs/Towing 25 

Inland Salvage to Remove Capsized Barge Accident/Salvage 5 

Innovation award for Dutch Fender Innovations Yard News 22 

Installing FPSO PSVM Tugs/Towing 9 

International Transport Contractors change name into 

Tschudi Offshore & Towage 


Investigation of Kolskaya platform accident closed Accident/Salvage 19 

Irving Birch 2 – new for Atlantic Towing Tugs/Towing 17 

Island Captain delivered from STX Brevik Offshore News 8 

Island Offshore awarded contract for well intervention 

services 


Island Offshore Extends Contract for MV Island Champion Offshore News 4 

Island Offshore Orders Another Ulstein Vessel Yard News 52 

Island Offshore orders PSV pair at STX OSV Yard News 27 

Island Offshore Orders Subsea Support Vessel from STX 

OSV 

Yard News 12 

Island Offshore Orders Two PSVs from STX OSV Brevik Yard News 38 

Island Offshore Signs Charter Agreement for MV Island 

Vanguard 


Island Offshore Takes Delivery of MV Island Crusader Offshore News 23 

ISU considers Bunker Removal Clause Accident/Salvage 41 

Italian Fincantieri Acquires 50.75 Pct Shares in STX OSV Yard News 52 

Italian Frigate Scirocco Assists Tug Amid Engine Troubles Accident/Salvage 27 

Italthai Marine Delivers PSV “OOC TIGER” Offshore News 44 

ITC & Augustea contracted for towage FSO Palanca Tugs/Towing 29 

ITC Meltemi drydocked in Den Helder Tugs/Towing 3 

ITC Meltemi in support of the Lincshore 2012 campaign Tugs/Towing 13 

Ivero drydocked in Den Helder Tugs/Towing 6 

IZMIR BULL towing 2 container ships bound to breakers Malta News 18 

JJJ 

J.J. Ugland Enters Charter Contract for PSV 

Offshore News 

50 

Jackson Offshore Orders Two PSV from BAE Systems Yard News 49 

JACQUES 2 – STu 2608 Damen deliveries 27 

Janneke on the blocks Tugs/Towing 16 

Japanese trawler aground off Clifton Beach Accident/Salvage 20 

Jaya and IHC Merwede Ink Collaboration Agreement Yard News 29 

JAYA Bags USD 84 Mln in New Shipbuilding Contracts Yard News 28 

23/58


Jaya Holdings delivers advanced AHTS to Atlantic Towing Offshore News 48 

JB 114 towed to Great Yarmouth Tugs/Towing 3 

Jenny waiting for demolishers Tugs/Towing 45 

Jensen Designing Tenth Tugboat, Eric M. McAllister, for 

McAllister Towing 


JES Adds Second PSV to Its Offshore Support Vessels 

Order Book 

Yard News 44 

JES Wins Its First PSV Order Yard News 41 

Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard Splashes AHTS SEALINK 

179 


Johannes de Rijke shifted by tug Watergeus Tugs/Towing 11 

John Dane III Announced as 2012 Workboat Show 

Keynote Speaker 


JSC Pella Shipyard Launches Another Tug for Russian 

Navy 


Just a tug from the North of The Netherlands Tugs/Towing 49 

KKK 

K Line’s PSV Supports Statoil’s Drilling Ops Offshore 

Faroe Islands 

24/58 

Offshore News 

Kanthicha caught fire Accident/Salvage 41 

Kapitan Markin delivered Tugs/Towing 50 

Keel Laid for Sovcomflot’s Arctic Offshore Vessel Yard News 27 

Keel Laying Ceremony for CSS Accommodator with Hull 

No. MW610-1 

Yard News 28 

Keel Laying Ceremony for Global Marine Three Aluminum 

Crew Boats 

Yard News 44 

Keel laying ceremony for new seismic vessel ‘Ramform 

Titan’ at MHI Shipyard 

Yard News 36 

Keel laying ceremony held for GPA-designed AGOR-27 

Ocean class research vessel 

Yard News 35 

Keel laying Euro Tug 2300 Yard News 40 

Keel-Laying Ceremony at SANMAR Shipyard Yard News 39 

Keels laid for two tugs at Hindustan Shipyard Tugs/Towing 1 

Kelty and Almond Yesteryear 36 

Kerob Express sold Offshore News 3 

Kestrel departed wit Boa Barge 21 Tugs/Towing 11 

Keverne in Braefoot Bay Tugs/Towing 33 

Khabarovsk Shipyard launches ASD tug for Rosnefteflot Tugs/Towing 43 

Khabarovsk Shipyard launches ASD Tug for Rosnefteflot Tugs/Towing 44 

KIN - ASD 3212 Damen deliveries 27 

Kin commenced trails Tugs/Towing 23 

Kingston and tow Tugs/Towing 5 

Kirby to Acquire Barge & Tankship Operator Penn 

Maritime 


Kleven Maritime Secures Major Renovation Contract Offshore News 4 

27


Kleven Maritime to Build Subsea Construction Vessel Yard News 24 

Kleven Maritime wins second seismic order from Sanco 

Shipping 

Yard News 18 

KOTUG – First Assistance of ‘Maersk Laguna’ in Jade- 

Weser-Port 


KOTUG Commissions E-KOTUG Tugs/Towing 23 

KOTUG doet ludieke recordpoging met “30 kneeboarders 

achter sleepboot SD Rover” 


Kotug gets 6-year towage contract for JadeWeserPort Tugs/Towing 26 

KOTUG´s new build RotorTug ‘’RT Ambition “ arrived in 

Bremerhaven 


KPV Badangon its way to Freeport, Texas Tugs/Towing 2 

Kuwait Oil Company Orders 28 Wärtsilä Engines for 14 

New Tugs 

Yard News 45 

Kuzbass departed from Shanghai Tugs/Towing 34 

Kvichak Marine Delivers Two Anchor Handling Utility 

Vessels 


LLL 

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La Crosse Company Christens New Tugboat 

Tugs/Towing 

14 

LaBorde Repowers Inland Waterway Pushboat Tugs/Towing 7 

Lady Anneke on tow Tugs/Towing 14 

Laggan last VSP built by Scot & Sons - Bowling Yesteryear 31 

Large Ocean going reputable tug/AHTS for sale Tugs/Towing 36 

Large PSV joins Swire Pacific fleet Offshore News 5 

Last miles for Iowa Tugs/Towing 24 

Last Smit tug of the 1,800 BHP class leaving Rotterdam Tugs/Towing 50 

Last three in series of eight for sale Tugs/Towing 22 

Last tow in Svitzer livery? Tugs/Towing 42 

Last Tugs Towing & Offshore Newsletter this year 2012 Yard News 52 

Latest Md.-made tug is bound for Baltimore's harbor Tugs/Towing 1 

Launching ceremony E-Kotug now on YouTube Tugs/Towing 26 

25/58


Launching for eight diving support vessel of project A160 

Leevac launches the AET "Partnership" Offshore News 6 

LEEVAC Shipyards Jennings, LLC, Jennings, LA, is 

pleased to announce contract signings 

Yard News 16 

Lekko “Club News” Tugs/Towing 16 

Lekko Tugboat Lover Meeting Vlissingen Tugs/Towing 7 

Leonard M - new name to get used to Tugs/Towing 15 

Leopard with Combi freighter passing Turkish straits Tugs/Towing 34 

Letter from a reader Tugs/Towing 30 

Lewek Fulmar visit Cape Town Offshore News 2 

Lian Beng unit acquires $6.76m worth of cargo barges, tug Tugs/Towing 

boats 

13 

LIENI saluting TITANIA with fire monitors Malta News 11 

Limburg sold to Saudi-Arabia Tugs/Towing 43 

Linde-G Christened in Scheveningen Offshore News 12 

Listerville (i) returns to Nova Scotia Tugs/Towing 46 

Liz F in Cape Town Tugs/Towing 38 

Loch Roag entering Grand Harbor Malta News 16 

London Mining Rescue 11 at Sea Accident/Salvage 28 

London reports Tugs/Towing 31 

London reports Tugs/Towing 43 

London voyage continued Tugs/Towing 8 

London voyage continued. Tugs/Towing 45 

London voyage up-date Tugs/Towing 47 

Long term charter contracts for 2 PSVs Offshore News 9 

Long term charter for newbuilding PSV in Brazil Offshore News 8 

Long-term contract for Acta Marine Offshore News 30 

Lore departed with bunkerbarge Tugs/Towing 2 

Loss of Faithful could spell 'big trouble' Tugs/Towing 45 

Lotus still going strong Tugs/Towing 8 

Lundin Hires Rem Leader Platform Supply Vessel Offshore News 51 

lyth Workcats Launches Its Biggest Boat at Seawork Wind Farm 22 

MMM 

26/58 


M.O.B. Race M.V. Rotterdam 

Tugs/Towing 

13 

m/t London voyage continued Tugs/Towing 5 

M/T Torsten sails into service from Istanbul to North of 

Germany 


m/v London voyage continued Tugs/Towing 12 

m/v London voyage continued. Tugs/Towing 11 

M/v London's voyage continued Tugs/Towing 10 

Maasstroom fitting out Tugs/Towing 5 

Maasstroom on trails Tugs/Towing 13 

MacDuff design harbour tug for sale Tugs/Towing 6 

Macduff Shipyards Launches New Multi-Purpose Support 

Vessel 

Wind Farm 21


Macduff to Design Two Tugs for Boustead Langkawi 

Shipyard 

Yard News 40 

Macduff to supply tug design package to Turkey Tugs/Towing 3 

Macleod Tugs/Towing 12 

Maersk Shipper in tow with Scarabeo 3 Tugs/Towing 40 

Maersk Supply Service Wins Major Contracts with Key 

Customers 


Maersk Supply Service wins three major contracts in Brazil Offshore News 10 

Maggie M for Neptune Shipyard Tugs/Towing 2 

Magnus back in Valletta Malta News 7 

Magnus towed Key Manhattan Tugs/Towing 4 

Magnus towing barge AMT Trader Tugs/Towing 28 

Magnus with in tow S-44 now outbound Tugs/Towing 34 

Magnus with tow for the Rotterdam Waalhaven Tugs/Towing 32 

Mainport inks seismic support vessel order Yard News 4 

Mainprize Offshore Orders Two Vessels from Buckie 

Shipyard 

Yard News 21 

Major fire on ship dry-docked in Lyttelton harbour Accident/Salvage 35 

Major Fleet Overhaul program Continues Tugs/Towing 25 

Major fleet overhaul program continues Tugs/Towing 29 

MAJOR SUBSEA CONTRACT TO ULSTEIN Yard News 23 

Malabar - handsome French naval tug Tugs/Towing 30 

Malaysia Based Nam Cheong Wins Contract to Build 

Three AHTS Vessels 

Yard News 14 

Malaysian tug and barge possibly hijacked Tugs/Towing 31 

Mammoet Salvage to right tilting trawler Accident/Salvage 23 

Man killed in work accident on A2SEA ship Accident/Salvage 52 

Manta III sold Offshore News 34 

Marc signed off Tugs/Towing 41 

Marcon International announce the sale of OSV Offshore News 20 

Marcon’s Tugboat Recap – August 2012 Tugs/Towing 39 

Marechiaro Tugs/Towing 48 

Marin Teknikk AS with breakthrough in USA Yard News 47 

Marin Teknikk, Shinan Heavy Sign New PSV Deal Yard News 1 

Marine Resources Group Becomes Foss Marine Holdings, 

Inc 


MarineCo UK orders another two offshore wind High 

Speed Support Vessels with Damen Shipyards 

Wind Farm 4 

Mariner Sea sold Offshore News 48 

Maritime Cineaste Pim Korver passed away Tugs/Towing 49 

Maritime Craft Services orders three more Damen Twin 

Axe Fast Crew Suppliers 

Wind Farm 48 

Martine P Christened in Aalst Tugs/Towing 18 

Marzamemi towed Accom. Work Maintenance Barge from 

Romania to Congo 


Maungatea for Port of Marlbourgh Tugs/Towing 36 

27/58


McAllister Towing building Tier III ASD Tractor Tug Tugs/Towing 23 

MCS Pampero Joins Maritime Craft Services’ Fleet Wind Farm 47 

MCS to Take Delivery of Two Twin Axe Vessels Offshore News 1 

Mediterreneo IV on fire Tugs/Towing 16 

Meibion Islands commenced trails Tugs/Towing 26 

Mermaid Cove Yard News 31 

Metalships & Docks to Build Subsea Construction Vessel 

for McDermott 

Yard News 36 

Michalis S towing the 55m super yacht Illusion Tugs/Towing 24 

Miclyn Express Offshore Takes Delivery of MSV Offshore News 33 

Miclyn plans newbuild expansion Offshore News 40 

Miclyn Wins Contract for Three Vessels by SLC Tugs/Towing 31 

Milaha Secures USD 110 Million in Ship Financing from 

QNB Group 

Yard News 25 

Milk moustaches for pups Tugs/Towing 30 

Mini-exhibition Titanic in Dutch National Towage Museum Tugs/Towing 14 

Minister of Industry Announces Support for Quebec Tug 

Operator 


MIO Exercises Option for Two New Crew/Utility Vessels Offshore News 42 

Miss Alexis sold to Mexican buyers Offshore News 38 

Miss Carolyn sold to Mexican buyers Offshore News 38 

Missing tug Tetra 2 still underway to UAE Tugs/Towing 24 

Mississippi River closed by barge crash, oil spill Accident/Salvage 7 

Mistral Tugs/Towing 44 

Mitchell Hebert Tugs/Towing 14 

MMS Kinetic at Sluiskil Tugs/Towing 52 

Mobilisation of DSV Seabed Worker Offshore News 4 

Model tug Torrent restored Tugs/Towing 7 

Monsoon’s first salvage operation by Great Offshore Accident/Salvage 28 

Monument for capsizing of the Fairplay 22 Tugs/Towing 46 

Mooring Trials for Multipurpose Salvage Vessel ‘Spasatel 

Karev’ 


Morag M home bound Tugs/Towing 8 

Moran Towing of Texas changes name to Moran Port 

Arthur-Beaumont 

Tugs/Towing 1 

More Crew Boats from Grandweld Shipyards Yard News 34 

More engine trouble in Rotterdam Accident/Salvage 1 

More Power from Latest New Build Tugs/Towing 27 

More troubles for Carnival over the Costa Concordia Accident/Salvage 27 

Mosvold Supply Cancels Another AHTS Order Offshore News 9 

MPI Workboats Takes Over New Crew Transfer Vessel 

from South Boats, UK 

Wind Farm 16 

MPI’s New Installation Vessels Receive Award Wind Farm 22 

Ms Caroline in Crew Boat Smash Up Accident/Salvage 25 

MSC Flaminia delivered to her owners Accident/Salvage 37 

28/58


MSC Flaminia proceeding at twice lower speed than 

claimed 


MSC Flaminia underway to germany Accident/Salvage 34 

MSC Flaminia update 1st September Accident/Salvage 35 

MSC Flaminia update 3rd August Accident/Salvage 31 

MSC Flaminia update 9th August Accident/Salvage 32 

MSC Sirocco Goes Straight into Service in Belgium Wind Farm 26 

MTS Vantage in tow with barge Maxi Tugs/Towing 43 

MTS Vantage with Skyline Barge 19 in tow Tugs/Towing 31 

MTS Viscount deliver bridge element Tugs/Towing 4 

Multicat 2611 techinal trails Tugs/Towing 25 

Multicat grounded Accident/Salvage 25 

Multicat under construction Yard News 31 

Multi-Purpose Tug Husky Completes Work at Sheringham 

Shoal Offshore Windfarm 

Wind Farm 19 

Multrasalvor 3 joins Multraship fleet Tugs/Towing 45 

Multraship to take delivery of new Damen ASD 3212 tug Tugs/Towing 21 

Multratug 19 home Tugs/Towing 23 

Multratug 19 Official delivered with namegiving ceremony Tugs/Towing 25 

Multratug 22 home Tugs/Towing 27 

Multratug 3 chartered to Smit Tugs/Towing 27 

mv Miner to be removed from Scatarie Island by mid- 

August 


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Nam Cheong Builds 75m Offshore Support Vessel 

Yard News 

3 

Nam Cheong Launches Malaysia’s First Diesel Electric 

MPSV 

Yard News 50 

Nam Cheong Receives Orders for Four AHTS Vessels Yard News 46 

Nam Cheong Secures Sale Contracts Yard News 34 

Nam Cheong Sells Two PSVs Yard News 41 

Nam Cheong Steers Shipbuilding with 59m AHTS 

Newbuild 


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Name change for P/F Supply Service Offshore News 40 

Names giving Ceremony of „RT Darwin" and „RT Tasman" Tugs/Towing 

in Bremerhaven 

24 

Naming Ceremony for Alicat Workboats’ New Transfer 

Vessel 

Wind Farm 22 

Naming Ceremony for Newbuild Survey Vessel MV Fugro 

Equator 


Naming Ceremony for Olympic Energy PSV Offshore News 13 

Naming Ceremony for PSV Olympic Orion Offshore News 26 

Naming Ceremony for Ugland Offshore’s PSV Offshore News 27 

Naming ceremony of Olympic Commander Offshore News 3 

Naming of Walking Jack-Up Barge at Neptune Shipyard Wind Farm 39 

Naval Large Tug Construction Project Tugs/Towing 51 

Naval tug gets heavy lift in Tacoma for shipment to Japan Tugs/Towing 9 

Navy inducts another tugboat Tugs/Towing 40 

Navy on the move! Tugs/Towing 21 

Navy tug serving as salvage platform for Junkers aircraft Tugs/Towing 23 

NDSQ Launches First and Biggest Vessel Yard News 39 

NDSQ Launches First Three Tugs for Milaha Tugs/Towing 47 

Neftegaz 29 aka Intrepid Sea - update Offshore News 38 

Neptun 11 with in tow Barge DN120 Tugs/Towing 3 

Neptun 9 towed former Russian passenger liner Tugs/Towing 8 

Nevsky Shipyard Delivers Spasatel Karev of Project 

MPSV07, Russia 


Nevsky Shipyard Inks State Contract for Construction of 

Salvage Vessel 

Yard News 49 

New Addition to RAmparts 2800 Class Tugs/Towing 39 

New addition to the RAmparts ASD tug series: RAmparts 

3700 – Doña Clary 


New AHTS Vessel ‘Teras Genesis’ Delivered Offshore News 21 

New ASD for STC Tugs/Towing 28 

New Barge for South Pars Jackets Transportation Yard News 33 

New Beira tug named Tugs/Towing 26 

New build Golden Energy Insula Offshore News 47 

New Build Standby Vessel ‘Esvagt Aurora’ Joins Esvagt’s 

Fleet 


New Building - 50 TBP - 4200 BHP AHTS for SALE Offshore News 3 

New building ASD2810 for Walvis Bay Tugs/Towing 34 

New building Baloe 2 - Update Tugs/Towing 12 

New building tugs for Seacor Tugs/Towing 48 

New building twin screw Catamaran for sale Wind Farm 18 

New Contract for DOF’s PSV ‘Skandi Yare’ in Brazil Offshore News 44 

New contract for Golden Energy Offshore Offshore News 27 

New contracts for four ESVAGT vessels Offshore News 8 

New Contracts for Solstad’s AHTS Vessels Offshore News 26 

New CTruk video case study Wind Farm 33 

New customer for Antwerp Ship Repair Tugs/Towing 28 

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New Damen Casco arrived from Poland Tugs/Towing 24 

New Damen Crane Barge Yard News 21 

New Damen tugs serve the Australian Navy Tugs/Towing 41 

New delivery from Damen Song Cam Shipyard Tugs/Towing 51 

New Design Draws Attention Offshore News 45 

New Elizabeth for L.H. Visser & Zn Tugs/Towing 2 

New exhibition in the National Towage Museum Tugs/Towing 20 

New Fassmer workboats for Germans Tugs/Towing 42 

New Kotugs arrived in Rotterdam Tugs/Towing 17 

New Managing Director for Damen Shipyards Singapore Yard News 28 

New Managing Director for ITC Tugs/Towing 20 

New milestone for the Tugs Towing & Offshore newsletter Tugs/Towing 35 

New milestone for Towingline Tugs/Towing 42 

New names for VOS suppliers Offshore News 4 

New northern isles tug revealed Offshore News 13 

New office for Iskes Towage & Salvage Tugs/Towing 10 

New Offshore Tender for North Sea Wind Farms Wind Farm 6 

New oilpainting mailship Willem Ruys Tugs/Towing 48 

New orders keep Cheoy Lee well above water Yard News 32 

New OSV for Groen Offshore News 11 

New owner Tarka 3 Tugs/Towing 26 

New project at Genoa Tugs/Towing 29 

New RAmparts 3200-W Class Tug for Saudi Ports 


Authority 

New row over Scotland's emergency tug cover Tugs/Towing 25 

New Samson ASD Harbour Tugboat Tugs/Towing 51 

New Seismic Survey Boat: NAMJet Waterjet Propelled Yard News 52 

New Shallow draft tug Tugs/Towing 43 

New Shallow draft tug Tugs/Towing 44 

New Stan Tug for Epinosul, Angola Tugs/Towing 22 

New strategy, New name, New jobs - Damen Shiprepair 

Götaverken to be best in Nordic market 

Yard News 10 

New tug exhibit opens April 21 at CBMM – “Push and Pull: 

Life on Chesapeake Tugboats” 

Tugs/Towing 4 

New Tug for Muller Dordrecht Tugs/Towing 17 

New tug for Sudan launched Tugs/Towing 11 

New tugs arrived in Zeebrugge Tugs/Towing 17 

New tugs underway for christening ceremony Tugs/Towing 19 

New Ultrajet JetMaster 2 DNV Class Approved Electronic 

Control System specifically for Wind Farm Support 

Vessels 

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Wind Farm 22 

New Vessels and Charters for Topaz Offshore News 33 

New York Harbor Tugboats Power Through Hurricane 

Sandy 

Tugs/Towing 44


New-build Diving Support Vessel to join Subsea 7 fleet Yard News 47 

Newbuild Tug Lomax Nears Delivery Tugs/Towing 46 

Newbuilding 125 Construction Continues at Simek Yard News 48 

Newbuilding 129 Nears Launch at Simek Yard News 51 

New-built AHTS-ship being delivered to TransAtlantic Offshore News 2 

Nichols Brothers building two tugs for Harley Marine Tugs/Towing 35 

Niger Delta King with unusual cargo Offshore News 28 

Nigerian pirates attack accommodation barge Offshore News 32 

No Words Accident/Salvage 3 

No. 934 ready for mooring trails Tugs/Towing 44 

Nor Star leaving Valletta with new funnel colours Malta News 4 

NORD/LB Participates in Financing of Offshore Wind Farm Wind Farm 

Installation Vessel 

11 

Nordic Yards Bags Order for Two Ice-Breaking Rescue 

and Salvage Vessels 

Yard News 52 

North Sea Giant Gets ‘Ship of the Year 2012′ Award Offshore News 10 

North Sea Wind Farm Review Data Published Wind Farm 29 

North Stream fixed by Nexen Offshore News 41 

Northern Canyon sold to Deep Ocean Offshore News 19 

Northern coastguard tug saved Tugs/Towing 12 

Northern Isles emergency tug cover extended till end of 

May 


Northern River confirmed sold Offshore News 5 

Northern Supporter leaves SNS Pool Offshore News 6 

Northern Wave UT745 Offshore News 26 

NPA plans acquisition of new pilot cutters, tugboats Tugs/Towing 10 

N-Sea Expands Its Fleet with ROV Survey Support Vessel Offshore News 29 

NSO Crusader called for distressed workboat Accident/Salvage 27 

OOO 

Ocean Breeze on San Antonia beach 

Accident/Salvage 

33 

Ocean Installer Hires SOFF’s Construction Vessel 

‘Normand Mermaid’ 


Ocean Scout Leaves Oil for Wind Wind Farm 23 

Ocean Sky launched Tugs/Towing 47 

Ocean Wave & Ocean Wind Christened Tugs/Towing 43 

Ocean Wave on builders trails Tugs/Towing 32 

Ocean Wind 5 Wind Farm 9 

Oceaneering Charters, Renames Offshore Vessel Offshore News 41 

Oceania Marine Launches Into Energy Vessels Offshore 

Joint Venture 

Wind Farm 8 

Oceanic trawler Ardatov under tow after fire and blackout, 

Japan sea 


Oceanografia Acquires OSA Goliath Offshore News 41 

Oceanteam Concludes CSV North Ocean 102 Bareboat 

Charter with McDermott 


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OCV ‘Normand Clough’ to Support Activities of PTTEP’s 

Montara Project 


Odys with parts for Meyer Werft Germany Tugs/Towing 48 

Offshore get-together in Flushing Port Offshore News 51 

Offshore supply ship ran aground in Galveston Offshore News 12 

Offshore Supply Vessel Crewmember Injured in Maritime 

Accident 


Offshore Support Ship of the Year Award given to the 

DNV-classed North Sea Giant 


Offshore tug/supply vessel Adinath One berthed in Malta 

Offshore Wind Farm booming Wind Farm 39 

Oil painting of the Bremen Fighter Tugs/Towing 43 

Okpo Shipyard Launches Korea’s First Salvage and 

Rescue Ship 

Yard News 38 

Olympic Commander in the Scottish port of Aberdeen Offshore News 8 

Olympic Energy Offshore News 21 

Olympic Shipping Orders Subsea Construction Vessel 

from Kleven Maritime 

Yard News 52 

Olympic Taurus Joins Olympic Shipping’s Fleet Offshore News 48 

One Dead, Five Rescued from Sunken Tug in Batangas Tugs/Towing 35 

One final voyage for tug Alwyn Vincent Tugs/Towing 25 

One vessel sank and four were beached in UAE off 

Sharjah 

Tugs/Towing 4 

Operation to move fuel from grounded vessel complete Accident/Salvage 15 

Orion Expeditor / Breton Sea - from the shoebox Tugs/Towing 6 

OSD seals ten new PSV orders Yard News 8 

OSD secures new PSV contracts in China and Japan Offshore News 28 

Ostensjo Extends Contract for PSV Edda Sprint with 

Maersk 


Ostensjo Rederi Orders ASD Tug from Turkey Tugs/Towing 11 

OSV Viking Lady to Get First Hybrid System Offshore News 11 

OSV’s – Global and still exciting Offshore News 32 

Otto Marine Charters Oranda 1 Vessel to Mexican 

Company 


Otto Marine Enters Chartering Contracts for Its AHTS 

Vessels 


Outer Limit launched Yard News 13 

Over 200 feet, Over 10,000 HP: McCall Builds Bigger Yard News 32 

Over supply of supply ships Offshore News 2 

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Malta News 2 

PPP 

P&O Maritime Provides Crew Transfer Solutions to Statoil- 

Scira Wind Farm 

Wind Farm 

22 

Pac Basin targets Australian LNG terminal tug business Tugs/Towing 28 

Pacific Blade visit Cape Town Offshore News 44 

Pacific Excellent named in Singapore Offshore News 30


Pacific Porpoise berthed at the repair quay Cape Town Offshore News 5 

Pacific Radiance acquires AHTS Offshore News 52 

Pacific Tug Fleet Additions Tugs/Towing 39 

Painting from the tug Elbe for sale Tugs/Towing 13 

Painting Zwarte Zee with forebody Philippine Leader in 

tow 


Pair sold to breakers Tugs/Towing 23 

Parahyba Campos-Designed Line-Handling Vessels Yard News 25 

Paramaconi in drydock at CDM-Curacao Tugs/Towing 48 

Paramaconi in Willemstad Tugs/Towing 50 

Passenger carrying tug ran aground following engine 

failure in Kiel 


Pathfinder sold Tugs/Towing 48 

PAULA offshore Ragusa, Sicily loaded with the last bridge 

section 


Pawlina error Malta News 11 

Pegasos down Tugs/Towing 25 

Pegasos down update – Who knows more Tugs/Towing 26 

Pegasos mystery solved Tugs/Towing 27 

Pella launched yard number 503 Tugs/Towing 30 

Pella Shipyard Delivers 3 New Harbor Tugs to Baltic Fleet Tugs/Towing 3 

Pella Shipyard Hands Over Tug Alexandr Zryachev Tugs/Towing 41 

Pella Shipyard inks shipbuilding contract with Ministry of 

Defence 

Yard News 17 

Pella Shipyard launches second ASD tug of Project 

RAscal 2000 


Pella Shipyard’s Harbor Tug to Join BF Tugs/Towing 18 

Pella’s yard number 502 ready for trails Tugs/Towing 30 

Penguin Delivers its First FLEX‐38 Green Crewboat Offshore News 24 

Penguin Delivers Powerful Flex-38S Crewboat Offshore News 44 

Penguin Shipyard launches 'Pelican Grace' Offshore News 19 

Perdana Petroleum looking to expand Offshore News 33 

Persian Gulf charter for Otto Marine Offshore News 25 

Pete Jordan killed in explosion on tug boat Tugs/Towing 19 

Peter Meyer retired Tugs/Towing 40 

Petrobras Charters Siem Ruby AHTS Offshore News 10 

Petrobras fixes OSRVs Offshore News 32 

Petrofac Extends Contract for JM Intan AHTSV Offshore News 15 

PGS Orders Two Ramform Vessels from Mitsubishi, 

Japan 

Yard News 16 

PGS to Charter Four PF THOR’s Seismic Vessels Yard News 46 

Phosphate ship breaks up at Christmas Island Accident/Salvage 2 

Pilot boat sold Offshore News 8 

Pinotage Tugs/Towing 43 

Pirates Kidnap Four Sailors Off Nigeria Offshore News 52 

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Pirates rob Petronas Carigali tug boat Tugs/Towing 28 

Pirates robbed containers on towed barge and hijack tug, 

Sulu sea 


Piriou delivered El-Jedid 2 Tugs/Towing 23 

PKL orders tug Tugs/Towing 29 

Plenty more OSVs for COSL Offshore News 37 

PMS 1386: the first of two RAstar 3200 tugs built by PM 

Coast Maritime Pte. Ltd. in Singapore 


Polarcus Alima Offshore News 9 

Polarcus Receives First-Ever DNV Level 1 Triple-E 

Rating 


Polarcus Takes Delivery of Its New Seismic Vessel from 

Norway 


Polarcus Wins Contract Extension from Woodside Offshore News 25 

Polish design for inland LNG push tug Tugs/Towing 52 

Pontoon crane changed Dutch owner Offshore News 26 

Pontoon for London Tugs/Towing 6 

Port Natal Maritime Museum Exhibition Tugs/Towing 37 

Port of Antwerp tug 40 delivered Tugs/Towing 26 

Port of Tallinn Buys Icebreaking Vessel MSV Botnica Offshore News 43 

Port of Tuapse takes delivery of Damen ATD Tug Tugs/Towing 44 

Portosalvo in Southern North Sea Pool Offshore News 2 

Posh sold Posh Harmony and Posh Hazel Tugs/Towing 2 

Possible construction of two tugs by CDM Tugs/Towing 42 

Powerful Anchor handlers join Smit Fleet Offshore News 35 

Precision for Sub-Sea Ops Yard News 50 

President Hubert towed balder into Europoort Tugs/Towing 4 

Princess in Smit Colours Tugs/Towing 43 

Prior departure Tugs/Towing 14 

Probe into death of ship captain Tugs/Towing 42 

Program to finance growth New bank loans worth 420 

million euros 

Yard News 25 

Project 90600 Harbor Tug Arrives in Baltic Fleet Tugs/Towing 10 

PSM lifeboat called to help stricken tug Accident/Salvage 50 

PSV Makalu sold Offshore News 25 

PSV Scan Carrier sold Offshore News 25 

PSV Vestland Mira Starts North Sea Contract Right After 

Naming Ceremony 


PSV Vladislav Strizhov gets OSR equipment Accident/Salvage 39 

PSVS for SNS Pool Offshore News 3 

PT Wintermar secures contracts offshore Papua New 

Guinea 


Purchase of "NOR Spring" & "NOR Captain" Offshore News 26 

Pushboat MV Thunder Christened at Conrad Shipyard Tugs/Towing 40 

Pusher grounded off Terneuzen Port Tugs/Towing 17 

Pusher tug sank on the Nieuwe Maas - Netherlands Tugs/Towing 8 

Pusher tugs “MATACHIN” & “CAZALLA” Tugs/Towing 26 

35/58


Pusher tugs active in Den Helder Tugs/Towing 38 

Putorani completed trails Tugs/Towing 28 

QQQ 

Quebec Tug News - all good 

RRR 

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Tugs/Towing 

Raptor 

Cape Town News 

13 

Rare distant traveller on the Clyde Tugs/Towing 29 

RAS EMSHAIREB berthed at Pinto 5, Grand Harbour, Malta Malta News 5 

Rates still low Offshore News 2 

RB-391 completed sea trails Tugs/Towing 39 

RB-391 delivered Tugs/Towing 40 

RB-392, building No 935 is launched Tugs/Towing 51 

RB-394 delivered Tugs/Towing 44 

RB-394 launched by Pella Tugs/Towing 31 

RB-395 has successfully passed sea trials Tugs/Towing 49 

Readers report Tugs/Towing 18 

Rectification tug “Ava Payagua” and cargo vessel “Rio 

Turbio” 


Redfish 3 waiting orders in Cape Town Offshore News 5 

Redwise delivers OSV “Discovery” Offshore News 35 

37


Reef Despina and Reef Larissa Complete Maiden Projects Offshore News 22 

Reefer Polfoss aground and refloated, Norway Accident/Salvage 46 

Rem Offshore Orders New OSCV Vessel Yard News 45 

Rem Offshore orders OCV from Kleven Yard News 17 

Rem Star chartered by Peterson SBS Offshore News 17 

Rem Supplier wins two-well deal in North Sea Offshore News 27 

Remolcanosa Cinco new owner Tugs/Towing 5 

Remontowa Christens PSV Lewek Aquarius Offshore News 23 

Remontowa Launches Multipurpose Platform Supply Vessel Offshore News 16 

Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. is not slowing down! Yard News 5 

Remontowa Starts Construction of New OSVs for Gulf 

Offshore 

Yard News 3 

Removal of Grounded vessel MV Miner is beginning Today Accident/Salvage 37 

Removal of MV Tycoon Wreck Commences on Christmas 

Island 


Remoy Shipping Orders LNG Powered PSV from Kleven 

Maritime 

Yard News 29 

Rena exclusion zone remains Accident/Salvage 52 

Rena Salvors Start Cutting Out Bow Internals Accident/Salvage 32 

Rena update Accident/Salvage 34 

Rena Update - 13 th April 

Rena update - Bad weather restricted salvage work Accident/Salvage 42 

Rena Update 10 th February Accident/Salvage 6 

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RENA update 10 th January 

Rena update 11 May 2012 Accident/Salvage 19 

Rena update 14th September Accident/Salvage 37 

Rena update 15th June 2012 Accident/Salvage 24 


Rena update 16 th March 

Rena update 18th May Accident/Salvage 20 


RENA update 19 th January 

Rena update 1st June 2012 Accident/Salvage 22 


Rena update 20 th April 

Rena update 22nd June 2012 Accident/Salvage 25 

Rena update 23 rd March 

Rena Update 24 th February 




Rena Update 24 th January 

Rena update 24th May Accident/Salvage 21 



Rena Update 29th August Accident/Salvage 35 

Rena Update 2 nd Ferbuary Accident/Salvage 5 

Rena update 2 nd March 

Accident/Salvage 9



Rena update 4th May 2012 Accident/Salvage 18 

Rena update 8th June 2012 Accident/Salvage 23 

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Rena update 9 th March 

Rena update, October 12 Accident/Salvage 41 

Rena workers nervous as storm approache Accident/Salvage 1 

Renaming Offshore News 21 

Renegade: Power and Harmony Afloat Tugs/Towing 26 

Repeat order for Macduff Yard News 35 

Resolve Completes Federalized Wreck Removal at Mona 

Island Ecological Reserve 


Resolve engineering launches new barge Offshore News 30 

Resolve removes first 600 tons of steel from Rena wreck Accident/Salvage 39 

Resolve Salvage & Fire (Asia),Pte. Ltd. completes removal 

of ten vessel wrecks at Kankesanthurai Harbor, Sri Lanka 


Rhumb Maritimere launched Yard News 21 

Rhumb Melba commenced trails Tugs/Towing 52 

Rijnstroom Tugs/Towing 12 

RIL towing the 2011 built pontoon P9 Malta News 11 

Riverwijs Christened two in Singapore Tugs/Towing 4 

RiverWijs Emma and RiverWijs Rowan Delivered Tugs/Towing 15 

RIX Sea Shuttle Launches Its New WFSV Wind Farm 44 

RM Marlin at Curacao Tugs/Towing 49 

RMAS tugs Tugs/Towing 28 

Road Tug Budget 19 robbed at Singapore Tugs/Towing 20 

Robbers Board Tug Off Johor Tugs/Towing 9 

Robert Allan Design for Amazon Tugs/Towing 45 

Robert Allan Ltd Participates in Restoration of Historic 

Scottish Tug Golden Cross 


Robert Allan to Design New ART 80-32 RotorTug Tugs/Towing 34 

Robert Uggla named as new Svitzer CEO Tugs/Towing 9 

Rogue ship in False Bay Tugs/Towing 19 

Rolls Royce to Design, Power, Hi-tech Subsea Vessel Yard News 17 

Rolls-Royce and Robert Allan Develop LNG Powered Tug 

Designs 


Rolls-Royce Bags Contract for Wave Piercing Offshore 

Vessel 

Yard News 29 

Rolls-Royce Completes Upgrade of Interlake’s Tug Dorothy 

Ann 


Rolls-Royce to Design and Equip PSV Vessels for Korean 

Shipbuilder 

Yard News 11 

Rolls-Royce to Design and Equip Two PSVs for Chinese 

Customer 

Yard News 46


Rolls-Royce to Design and Power Another China-Built PSV Yard News 51 

Rolls-Royce to Design, Power, Brazilian OSV's Yard News 43 

Rolls-Royce to Upgrade Interlake’s Tug Dorothy Ann Tugs/Towing 2 

Rolls-Royce vessel named ‘Ship of the year’ Offshore News 36 

Rolls-Royce Wins $69m OSV Contract Yard News 14 

Rolls-Royce Wins Italian Shipyard Order Yard News 25 

Rolls-Royce's First Gas Powered PSV Delivered Offshore News 25 

Rosetti delivered yard number 105 – F.D. Incomparable Offshore News 24 

Rosetti delivers new AHTS UT712 CD vessel Asso 

Trentuno to Augusta Offshore 


Rosmorport commissions icebreaking tug of Project TG04M 

Dobrynya 


Rosmorport commissions second tug of Project TG04M 

«Muromets" 


Rosmorport Sends Icebreakers to Work in Gulf of Finland Offshore News 51 

Rosmorport’s First Ice TG04M Tow Boat Hits the Water Tugs/Towing 34 

Rotortug to Take Part at New Orleans International 

Workboat Show 


Rotterdam & London laid up Tugs/Towing 50 

Rotterdam in IJmuiden Tugs/Towing 4 

Rotterdam towing the Ocean Guardian Tugs/Towing 11 

Rotterdam visit Rotterdam Tugs/Towing 27 

Rough Weather on Tauranga Reef Halts 'Rena' Salvage Accident/Salvage 31 

Rowan M. McAllister - a trip to the Lakes Tugs/Towing 15 

Royal Christening Newbuild LNG Powered Vessel Offshore News 37 

RS Class: Baltiysky Zavod Lays Keel for New Diesel 

Icebreaker 

Yard News 41 

RT Ambition leaving Malta on maiden voyage Tugs/Towing 44 

RT Rotation under construction Tugs/Towing 10 

RT Tasman delivered UT171 in Stavanger Tugs/Towing 3 

Russia begins construction of "largest ice breaker" Yard News 45 

Russia to get a new multi-purpose rescue vessel Yard News 26 

Russian Navy Commissions Harbor Tugs RB-20, RB-27 Tugs/Towing 23 

Russian Navy Sorum Class Ocean Going Tug MB-304 Tugs/Towing 45 

Russian Shipyard to Build World’s First Skew-Going 

Icebreaker 

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Yard News 18


SSS 

S.L. Libreville launched 

Tugs/Towing 

37 

Sable Sea at Pier 9A times two Offshore News 38 

Safety First Accident/Salvage 44 

Safety first for tugboats Tugs/Towing 19 

Sail Away of the FPSO "Voyager Spirit" commencing Tugs/Towing 40 

Sailing with me forever ! Tugs/Towing 41 

Sale of AHTS Lady Cynthia Cancelled Offshore News 24 

Sale of Yarm Cross and Yewgarth Tugs/Towing 46 

Salter Offshore Charters Hallin Marine’s Innovative 

Catamaran 


Salvage boat Spasatel Karev sets out on sea trials Offshore News 38 

Salvage Champion - Lancelot 

News 

Salvage company plans to have capsized cruise ship upright 

by winter and towed by early 2013 


Salvage crew begins removing giant rock from Costa 

Concordia 


Salvage Experts Refloat Grounded Vessel in St. Marys River Accident/Salvage 34 

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Cape Town 

Salvage Firm Hired Accident/Salvage 3 

Salvage of Bareli wreck off Fujian coast goes well Accident/Salvage 13 

Salvage of MV Miner wreck delayed Accident/Salvage 29 

Salvage operation after grounding off Måløy Accident/Salvage 11 

Salvage or wait Accident/Salvage 42 

Salvage ship JACOMINA entering Grand Harbour, Malta Malta News 4 

Salvager walking away from derelict ship Accident/Salvage 43 

Salvaging the ship sank in Sri Lanka has to wait till January Accident/Salvage 36 

Salvanguard Tugs/Towing 41 

Salvirile sold to Kenyan outfit Tugs/Towing 17 

Salvors Refloat the Hansa Berlin off Cuba Accident/Salvage 42 

Salvors sent to Hansa Berlin grounding site Accident/Salvage 38 

Sanaborg commenced trails Offshore News 32 

Sanaborg delivered Offshore News 34 

Sanaborg launched Yard News 13 

Sandy M Launched Tugs/Towing 5 

Sanmar delivers The Navtug Flattop “TORSTEN” to 

Schramm Group, Germany 


Sanmar is raising the standard Tugs/Towing 15 

Sanmar Latest news Tugs/Towing 48 

Sanmar Terminal VIII is on the way Tugs/Towing 48 

Sanna sold Wind Farm 6 

Sara Maatje III re-christened Alma Sara Tugs/Towing 2 

Sara Maatje XII for outfitting to Stellendam: Netherlands Tugs/Towing 50 

Sara maatje XII on the blocks at Padmos - Bruinisse Tugs/Towing 46 

9


SBM Offshore Sells DSV Dynamic Installer Offshore News 46 

Scapino in tow with Mari Tugs/Towing 42 

Scarabeo 3 Tugs/Towing 24 

SCI Orders Six Offshore Vessels from ABG Shipyard Yard News 5 

SCI Takes Delivery of New AHTS Vessel Offshore News 12 

SCI Takes Delivery of New PSV from Cochin Shipyard Offshore News 33 

Scomi Marine Invests USD 45 Million in Two New Vessels Offshore News 27 

SCV Island Pioneer Secures New Contract with OM Offshore News 49 

SD Dexterous sold Tugs/Towing 15 

SD Kyle of Lochalsh Tugs/Towing 31 

SD Northern River sold to Serco Offshore News 38 

SD Raasay at Greenock Tugs/Towing 21 

Sea Delta available for Charter Tugs/Towing 9 

Sea Eagle sold to Northcliffe Tugs/Towing 38 

Sea Installer arrives in Denmark Wind Farm 50 

Sea Jack underway for another wind farm installation job Wind Farm 26 

SEA SALVOR during afloat repairs at Cassar Ship Repair 

Yard 

Malta News 3 

Sea Tow Captain Receives Life-Saving Award Tugs/Towing 3 

Sea Vixen and Sea Jackal head for Brazil Offshore News 29 

SeaBird secures contract for Voyager Explorer in South East 

Asia 


Seacat’s New Vessel to Work at Greater Gabbard Offshore 

Wind Farm 

Wind Farm 44 

SEACOR Marine Chooses MTU engines Yard News 23 

Seamec Secures Contract for Its Saturation Diving Support 

Vessel 


SeaRoc Selects Installation Vessel For Blyth Offshore Wind 

Project 

Wind Farm 35 

Seaspan launches tugs to fanfare Tugs/Towing 27 

Seatankers Opts For A Dozen X-BOW’s Yard News 38 

Seaworthy IV" a new book by Willem Eerland Tugs/Towing 44 

Seaworthy paintings Tugs/Towing 46 

Second Foss Maritime Hybrid Tug On its Way to Southern 

California 

Tugs/Towing 3 

Secunda has new owners Offshore News 12 

Seismic Triplets for Mainport Yard News 30 

Seli I wreck will cost R40 million to clear Accident/Salvage 36 

Semi Swath Vessel under construction Wind Farm 5 

Sentinel confirms AHTS order Yard News 48 

Sentinel Marine buys two more PSVs Yard News 41 

Sentinel Marine Places Order for Two AHTS Vessels at Nam 

Cheong 

Yard News 47 

Sentinel sells Anchor Handling Tug Supplier Offshore News 47 

Serkeborg commenced trails Offshore News 35 

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Cape Town 

News 

SEVEN BOREALIS 

Seven Borealis Offshore News 14 

Seven Crew Members from ‘Bourbon Liberty 249′ Liberated 

from Captivity 


Seven missing after a collision of tug “Ava Payagua” and 

cargo vessel “Rio Turbio” 


Seven tugs for sale Tugs/Towing 11 

Severnaya Verf to Build Three ARC4 Supply Ships Yard News 24 

Seychelles blessing for Alnmaritec Tugs/Towing 51 

Shannon becomes Safe Supporter 1 Tugs/Towing 38 

SHARK 1 to Hit Water in August Yard News 23 

Shelf Express sold to Denmark Offshore News 19 

Shell Awaits New Giant Icebreaker Offshore News 3 

Shell’s Arctic Assets Set Sail for Alaska Tugs/Towing 26 

SHI Completes Construction of World’s Largest Wind Farm 


Wind Farm 30 

Shin Yang launches 'Danum 143' Tugs/Towing 35 

Shin Yang Shipping to Build Two PSVs for Belait Yard News 23 

Shinano Maru - a first for Fukushima Tugs/Towing 28 

Ship & Crew Detained by Nigerian Navy Under Arms 

Smuggling Suspicions 


Ship grounded to keep it from sinking Accident/Salvage 48 

Ship section underway again Tugs/Towing 47 

Ship’s captain said to be without glasses Accident/Salvage 10 

Shipdock Carries Out Repair Work on ‘Seven Eagle’ Offshore News 15 

Ships collide off Southern Singapore Accident/Salvage 1 

Shipyard De Hoop Delivers SBBA to Global Marine Wind Farm 3 

Shipyard Zaliv Completes Construction Works on Next 

Offshore Vessel 


Shirin & Dunya Offshore News 12 

Shoalbuster Baloe for sale Tugs/Towing 15 

Si El – Haoues nearly completed Tugs/Towing 12 

Si El Haoues delivered Tugs/Towing 15 

Siem Announces Order of Installation Support Vessel Yard News 41 

Siem Carrier passing Kiel-Canal Offshore News 47 

Siem Offshore Enters Charter Agreement for Its MRSV Offshore News 44 

Siem Offshore Enters into Charter Contract with ENI Ghana 

for Two PSVs 


Siem Offshore Enters OSCV Charter Agreement Offshore News 49 

Siem Offshore Sells MRSV Siem Swordfish Offshore News 31 

Siem Offshore Sells Platform Supply Vessel Offshore News 14 

Siem order dual fuel Platform Supply Vessel Yard News 44 

Siem Swordfish sale completed Offshore News 33 

Signal International Lands Contract to Build Largest Hopper 

Dredge 

Yard News 34 

Signet Awards Robert Allan Ltd. 8th Contract in 5 Years Yard News 47 

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Signet Continues Gulf Coast Fleet Expansion Tugs/Towing 50 

Signet to Deliver and Christen New RAmparts 3200 ASD Tug Tugs/Towing 

m/v Signet Weatherly 

10 

Signet tugs perform their first rig tow Tugs/Towing 10 

SILK Holdings Adds Two AHTS Vessels to Its Fleet Accident/Salvage 39 

Silverburn: Ice-Class AHT for Caspian Ops Tugs/Towing 51 

Silverstar Marine to Provide Client Representation for 

Newbuild WFSVs 

Wind Farm 45 

Simek A/S, yard No. 125 Yard News 20 

Simek A/S, yard No. 130 Yard News 5 

Simek Delivers Platform Supply Vessel C-VIKING Offshore News 29 

Simek Shipyard to Launch New PSV NB 126 Offshore News 19 

Simek signed contract with Simon Møkster Yard News 22 

Simon Møkster goes to Astilleros Gondwan for PSV newbuild Yard News 26 

Singapore & London together in Singapore Tugs/Towing 32 

Singapore police confiscates tugboat used to steal oil Tugs/Towing 1 

Singapore reports Tugs/Towing 51 

Singapore Shipyard Building SBM Offshore DSCV Yard News 41 

Singapore-based Basic Offshore has placed an order for 

eight newbuild PSVs. 

Yard News 1 

Sinopacific Delivers Its First Self-Designed AHTS to Bourbon Offshore News 13 

Sinopacific wins order for six PSVs Yard News 29 

Sinterklaas, and well underway - Clara B departed Cape Tow Tugs/Towing 49 

Sirrah ran into tug Accident/Salvage 16 

Sister MMS Omega also spotted Tugs/Towing 52 

Sister of RB-391 launched Tugs/Towing 40 

Sisters tow Floating Hostel Tugs/Towing 43 

SK LINE 71 Offshore News 47 

SK LINE 71 renamed Offshore News 48 

Skandi Chieftain RSV Remains with Petrobras Offshore News 33 

Skandi Feistein delivered Offshore News 6 

Skandi Hawk to conduct geophysical/geotechnical work Offshore News 41 

Skandi Hercules to work in Indian waters Offshore News 34 

Skandi Møgster secures new contract in Brazil Offshore News 4 

Skandi Nova delivered Offshore News 42 

Skandi Salvador extended by Chevron Brazil Offshore News 27 

Skandi Seven entering Malta on a maiden call Malta News 3 

Skandi Waveney joins SNS Pool Offshore News 5 

Sky view of a Rig Tow Tugs/Towing 9 

SL Gabon departed Galati Tugs/Towing 52 

SL Serval delivered Tugs/Towing 45 

SL Tiger Tugs/Towing 40 

SL Tiger delivered Tugs/Towing 41 

Sleepboot Havendag Maassluis 12 Mei 2012 Tugs/Towing 18 

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Sleepboot zinkt door vorstschade Millingen aan de Rijn Tugs/Towing 7 

Slow progress for tug towing salmon cages back to Shetland Tugs/Towing 2 

Small assist Big Tugs/Towing 20 

Small Z drive tugs Tugs/Towing 11 

Smit Ahoada renamed Tugs/Towing 6 

Smit Amandla departure 

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Cape Town 

News 

Smit Amandla Secures R300m Contract Offshore News 16 

Smit Angola under contract of Seaway Tugs/Towing 26 

Smit Antigua renamed Tugs/Towing 2 

Smit belgie start operations Tugs/Towing 17 

Smit Bever sold to Briggs Marine Tugs/Towing 32 

Smit Bronco to other continent Tugs/Towing 7 

Smit Jamaica sold Tugs/Towing 2 

Smit Lamnalco backs the Flying Angel Tugs/Towing 29 

Smit Lamnalco brings Sierra Leone ore to market Tugs/Towing 28 

Smit Lamnalco newbuilds to meet Shell Gabon renewal Tugs/Towing 47 

Smit Lamnalco orders new tugs at Cheoy Lee for LNG work Tugs/Towing 31 

Smit Lamnalco plans expansion Tugs/Towing 20 

Smit Lamnalco secures major O&M Contract in Iraq Tugs/Towing 37 

Smit Lamnalco wins award at maritime industry ‘Oscars’ Tugs/Towing 50 

Smit Lion Tugs/Towing 35 

Smit newbuildings under construction on Chinese yard Yard News 27 

Smit Orca operating Offshore Cameroon Tugs/Towing 11 

Smit Owaijah II on trails Offshore News 5 

Smit Rotterdam on Canvas Tugs/Towing 26 

Smit to the rescue Accident/Salvage 29 

SMS purchase two tugs Tugs/Towing 5 

SMS Towage Limited 13 

Snapping cable injured tug master Tugs/Towing 39 

SNS Pool fleet extends with two platform supply vessels of 

Vroon Offshore Services 


Soby Shipyard preparing new Esvagt ship Yard News 46 

Solstad Announces Charter Contracts for its Construction 

Vessels 


Solstad Charters Three Vessels to Oil Firms Offshore News 15 

Solstad Offshore Extends Charter Contract for CSV 

‘Normand Oceanic’ 


Solstad wins contract for AHTS Nor Captain Offshore News 36 

Solstad’s AHTS Vessel ‘Normand Ivan’ to Support 

Deepwater Operations in Malaysia 


Solvik Supplier on charter to Total E&P Offshore News 10 

Sosnowski Shipyard launches Project DCV 47 supply vessel 

for Kamchatka 


Sound Horizon bollard pull tests Tugs/Towing 27 

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South American Operator Re-Powers with Cummins Yard News 40 

South Boats bought out of administration Wind Farm 44 

South Boats Delivers Crew Transfer Vessel Chinook to P&O 

Maritime 

Wind Farm 6 

South Boats Delivers Its 57th WFSV Caernarfon Bay Wind Farm 18 

South Boats Delivers New WFSV ‘Abersoch Bay’ to Turbine 

Transfers 

Wind Farm 7 

South Boats Delivers New Workboat to Iceni Marine Services Wind Farm 16 

South Boats Hands Over Crew Transfer Vessel at Seawork 

2012 

Wind Farm 21 

South Boats Inks Contract for Construction of Two 24m 

WFSV Catamarans 

Wind Farm 8 

Sovcomflot Secures Loan to Pay for Two Ice-breaking Supply Yard News 

Vessels 

51 

Space Shuttle Enterprise Hits the Water… and a Bridge Tugs/Towing 23 

Spanish Boat Builder Launches Tidal Transit’s New 

Windfarm Service Vessel 

Wind Farm 15 

Spanish Shipyard Launches Grampian Defiance Offshore News 21 

Spanish shipyards build for Atlantic Offshore Yard News 30 

Spanish tugboat sold to Turkish buyers Tugs/Towing 27 

Spartan with Princess Agia Soni to Greece Tugs/Towing 11 

Special transport Tugs/Towing 36 

Spectrum Extends Contract for ‘Hawk Explorer’ Offshore News 48 

Spectrum Extends Contract for Hawk Explorer Accident/Salvage 39 

Speed crucial in Capsizing Fairplay 22: Accident report Tugs/Towing 11 

Sphere Offshore Solutions, LLC Appoints Andrew Cox Vice 

President 


Spinola again in Adriatic Sea Tugs/Towing 31 

Spinola in Adriatic Sea for the second time this year Tugs/Towing 47 

Spinola in drydock Tugs/Towing 30 

Spotted in Waterhuizen; Netherlands Tugs/Towing 12 

Sri Lanka Dockyard launches platform supply vessel Offshore News 26 

Sri Lanka places anti-piracy armoury ship off Galle Island Offshore News 42 

ST Engineering’s marine sector wins S$179m worth of 

shipbuilding and repair contracts 

Yard News 36 

ST Engineering's Marine arm wins S$75m Contract Yard News 7 

St. Johns delivers OSV to A.R.Singh Contractors Offshore News 20 

St. Johns Ship Building Delivers Two Push Tugs to 

Smithbridge, Australia 

Tugs/Towing 9 

St. Michael sold Tugs/Towing 29 

St.Piran correction Tugs/Towing 19 

ST.Rocco former Fairplay XII drydocked Malta News 5 

Stanford and Castle Point sold Tugs/Towing 32 

Stanford Marine Announces Doubling of Revenue Over Two 

Years - Fleet Value Increases by US$ 200 million 


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Stanislav Yudin wins work on Gwynt y Môr offshore windfarm Wind Farm 14 

Stantug commenced trails Tugs/Towing 23 

Staten Island Sandy Victim Tankship Salvaged Accident/Salvage 50 

Statoil awards contract to Island Offshore Offshore News 17 

Statoil Charter Spree Yard News 24 

Statoil Extends Charter for PSV Stril Pioner in North Sea Offshore News 48 

Statoil Extends Charter for Viking Queen Offshore News 30 

Statoil fixes two vessels Offshore News 11 

Statoil Hires AHTS Vessel ‘KL Sandefjord’ Offshore News 23 

Statoil to Operate Two Atlantic Offshore’s PSVs Offshore News 25 

Statum Cape Town News 11 

Steam Tug Kerse Yesteryear 33 

Stena Forth Cape Town News 12 

Sterling transferred to Australia Tugs/Towing 1 

Stevns Master laid up Tugs/Towing 32 

Stim Star Cape Town News 13 

Stories of South Africa’s super tugs “A tug at my heart” Tugs/Towing 52 

Stranded Indonesians ‘just want to go home’ Tugs/Towing 34 

Strategic Marine Launches Its First Wind Farm Vessel in 

Europe 

Wind Farm 49 

Strategic Marine to Build Offshore Cargo Catamaran Yard News 30 

Strategic takes on Euro offshore energy market Wind Farm 7 

Stricken bulk carrier reaches Cairns Accident/Salvage 21 

Stril Orion fixed by Marathon Offshore News 10 

Strilborg selected by AGR Norway Offshore News 45 

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Students to name Garline’s new Wind Farm Support Vessel Wind Farm 12 

STX Brevik Delivers New PSV to Island Offshore Accident/Salvage 39 

STX Marine Wins New Polar Icebreaker Design Contract Yard News 6 

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STX OSV delivers PSV ‘Sea Brasil’ Offshore News 36 

STX OSV Delivers PSV Far Skimmer to Farstad Shipping Offshore News 38 

STX OSV Delivers PSV Normand Arctic to Solstad Offshore News 1 

STX OSV Enters LOI with Troms Offshore for Large PSV Yard News 24 

STX OSV Expects Benefit from Renewed Demand for Larger 

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Yard News 20 

STX OSV Inks PSV Contract with Troms Offshore Supply Yard News 29 

STX OSV Secures OSCV Contract Yard News 24 

STX OSV to Build Two OSCVs for Siem Offshore (Norway) Yard News 15 

STX OSV to Design and Construct Two OSCV for Siem Yard News 41 

Subsea 7 S.A. awarded $70 million North Sea contract Offshore News 47 

Successful 2011 for Redwise Tugs/Towing 19 

Successful LEKKO day in IJmuiden Tugs/Towing 18 

Suffolk Spirit Tugs/Towing 35 

Sun Essex for sale Tugs/Towing 32 

Sun Essex open for towage Tugs/Towing 30 

Sund – Stan Tug 1606 Damen deliveries 32 

Sunken boat refloated in Sydney Harbour Accident/Salvage 22 

Sunken Dredge and capsized tug in lower Lake Huron Accident/Salvage 29 

Super Ampelmann onboard Rem Star Offshore News 33 

Supplier shut down rig fire Accident/Salvage 47 

Supply vessels attacked off Nigeria - Maritime Security Alert Offshore News 19 

Survey vessel “Fugro Equator” Offshore News 36 

Svezia confess colour Tugs/Towing 38 

Svitzer Kestrel Cape Town News 12 

Svitzer Kestrel temporary in Curacao Tugs/Towing 29 

Svitzer Nereid – sailed 17.358 nautical miles, a record is 

broken! 


Svitzer Nereid made a bunker call in Singapore Tugs/Towing 8 

Svitzer Nereid on a 15,000 miles voyage Tugs/Towing 7 

Svitzer sold Flying Spindrift Tugs/Towing 33 

Svitzer to remove oil from Baltic Ace Accident/Salvage 50 

Svitzer’s first ECO tug enters service Tugs/Towing 26 

Swan is Down Tugs/Towing 20 

SWCC-2 delivered Tugs/Towing 12 

Swedish icebreaker is already in action Offshore News 50 

Swire Orders 32 MAN Diesel and Turbo L27/38 Gensets For 

Platform Supply Vessels 

Yard News 24 

Swire Pacific eyes offshore fleet expansion Offshore News 19 

Swire Pacific Secures Order for Six PSVs from Japan Yard News 26 

Swire sells AHTS Ariki Offshore News 16 

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Swissco Steadfast sold Offshore News 11 

TTT 

T.O.S. 20 years Energy & Maritime Solutions 

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T.O.S. celebrates 65th jubilee Kees Naaktgeboren Tugs/Towing 5 

T.O.S. conducts high speed ship delivery services for Svitzer 

Americas 

Tugs/Towing 8 

T.O.S. delivers new build rotor tugs SMIT KIWI and SMIT 

EMOE 


T.O.S. is sailing a record number of deliveries (around the 

globe) 


T.O.S. launches ASD Training Program at ITS 2012 Tugs/Towing 21 

T.O.S. signs contract with German towing company Tugs/Towing 8 

T.O.S. strengthens its position in the Oil & Gas industry Offshore News 7 

Tacoma-built tug hitching a ride to Japan on heavy-lift ship Tugs/Towing 8 

Tacoronte sold to Ukrainian interests Tugs/Towing 52 

Talisman Energy Hires Two Maintenance Support Vessels 

from Reef Subsea 


Talking about food – Clara B update report Tugs/Towing 52 

Tancred – ASD 2310 Damen deliveries 32 

Tanker grounded off Wangerooge Accident/Salvage 33 

Tanker inferno Accident/Salvage 30 

Tanker John B. Caddell on a Front Street, Staten Island Accident/Salvage 44 

Tanker Stuck in Shallows Near Aegna Accident/Salvage 39 

Tanux I Offshore News 20 

Tapuhi launched Tugs/Towing 51 

TAQA Hires PSV FD Indomitable for Its Next Drilling 

Programme 


Targe Towing withdraw from the Thames Tugs/Towing 37 

Tarka for sale Tugs/Towing 48 

TAS Offshore Sells Offshore Vessel to Overseas Customer Offshore News 24 

Taurus towing barge Castoro XI Tugs/Towing 27 

Taylor James launched at Thoma-Sea Offshore News 49 

Te Maru for drydocking Tugs/Towing 9 

Technip Charters New Build OCV Offshore News 30 

Teekay - KOTUG Joint Venture to Pursue Opportunities In 

Australian Towage Market 


Tempest sold Tugs/Towing 33 

Ten Damen stan tugs arrived in Gorinchem Tugs/Towing 6 

Terramare 1 Tugs/Towing 47 

Terramare 1 for Damen Hardinxveld Tugs/Towing 25 

Terramare 1 launched Tugs/Towing 42 

Tersan launched Giant Offshore Vessel with presence of 

Norway Prime Minister Mr. Jens Stoltenberg 


Tessa W at the slip Tugs/Towing 15 

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TGS Inks Letter of Intent to Charter MV Sanco Swift Offshore News 51 

TGS signs Letter of Intent for 3D Vessel Offshore News 52 

TGS, CGGVeritas Sign LoI for Seismic Vessel Chartering Offshore News 52 

Thai Offshore Supplier Gets Chevron Contract Offshore News 25 

Thames painted on cotton Tugs/Towing 28 

The best tool for the job…. Tugs/Towing 20 

The choice between ‘ASD’ and ‘tractor’ tug made easy by 

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The First 50-tonne Ulupinar series tugboat has joined the fleet Tugs/Towing 39 

The first of four new tractors arrive in Antwerp Tugs/Towing 33 

The Great Lakes Group goes live with new website Tugs/Towing 48 

The Great Lakes Towing company completes contract with 

American International Line to deliver tanks to Alpena, 

Michigan 


The last days of the St.Piran Tugs/Towing 18 

The latest of Muller Tugs/Towing 24 

The shipyard in Otradnoye builds the new shipbuilding site Yard News 51 

The signature ceremony of 4 unıts of fifi type tugs Yard News 3 

The Smit Finland exit Tugs/Towing 52 

The Steel-cutting Ceremony of Yuexin’s 38M Harbour Multifunction 

Tugboat YX3185 

Yard News 10 

Theo Cape Town News 11 

Third MTB Workboats Sails to Success! Tugs/Towing 40 

Three for SPD Offshore News 17 

Three men in hospital after fire on ship Accident/Salvage 51 

Three New Windfarm Support Vessels Launched Wind Farm 48 

Three of Smit in one shot Tugs/Towing 40 

Three suppliers join SNS Pool Offshore News 14 

THRUSTMASTER to DP McDermott Heavy-Lift and Pipelay 

Vessel DB 30 

Yard News 11 

Tidal Transit Expands Its Fleet of Crew Transfer Vessels Wind Farm 43 

Tidewater Receives Third AHTS Vessel from Chinese 

Shipyard 


Titan Maritime to remove wreck from Christmas Island Accident/Salvage 16 

Titan Salvage awarded contract to salvage Costa Concordia Accident/Salvage 17 

TNPA South Africa orders pilot cutter and tugboat from Damen 

Shipyards 

Yard News 23 

Toby Tide sold to West Coast buyers Offshore News 37 

Toisa Tiger in Cape Town Offshore News 2 

Tonosi on her way to Balboa Tugs/Towing 8 

Topaz’s New AHTS Vessels to Work in Caspian Sea Offshore News 19 

Torgem Shipbuilding Floats Out 23m DOT Tug Tugs/Towing 47 

TOS and Fairplay Towage strengthen their cooperation Tugs/Towing 44 

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TOS Ship Delivery is breaking records this New Year Tugs/Towing 51 

TOS signs ship delivery contract with GSS Marine Services Tugs/Towing 34 

TOS Strengthens Its Position in Asia Tugs/Towing 41 

Tow Boat, Barge Slam Into Hot Metal Bridge Tugs/Towing 50 

Tow broke free from tugboat Accident/Salvage 35 

Tow for scrap Tugs/Towing 49 

Tow to Cherbourg after total engine breakdown Accident/Salvage 1 

TPAO Buying Polarcus Samur Seismic Vessel Offshore News 50 

Traction and control system for tug winches Yard News 37 

TradeWinds Towing LLC acquires tug LESLIE FOSS Tugs/Towing 38 

Trails for project 16609 Tugs/Towing 17 

Trails for project PE-65 Tugs/Towing 17 

Transnet issues tender for 9 new tugs Tugs/Towing 13 

Transport in the Kiel Canal Tugs/Towing 49 

Transport Paula Anna Tugs/Towing 1 

Transport project of 30 wind turbines for the offshore wind farm Wind Farm 

Thornton Bank 

28 

Transport to Australia Tugs/Towing 27 

Trawler towed off Cape beach - update Accident/Salvage 20 

Trinity Offshore Announces Re-Branding to TY Offshore Yard News 26 

Trojan is purchased by Atlantic Towage Tugs/Towing 42 

Troms Offshore Accepts Delivery of New PSV Offshore News 22 

Troms, Statoil enter charter agreement for two PSV’s Offshore News 37 

Troon Tugs Ltd. Tugs/Towing 14 

TSM Albatre commenced trails Tugs/Towing 50 

TT& O Reader is looking for a picture of the tug Gatling Tugs/Towing 45 

Tug "Schleppko 16" sank fishing boat on the Elbe Tugs/Towing 32 

Tug "Sioux" sold Tugs/Towing 20 

Tug 41 delivered by T.O.S Tugs/Towing 38 

tug AIAS entering Grand Harbour, Malta Tugs/Towing 22 

Tug Al Deebel hit by explosion of the SPM, Persian Gulf Tugs/Towing 18 

Tug and barge damaged in Manistee grounding, freed, on way 

to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 


Tug and Barge Matters Tugs/Towing 47 

Tug and Barge Run Aground in Alaska Accident/Salvage 46 

Tug assistance in the North of Holland Tugs/Towing 10 

Tug at Doha port Tugs/Towing 15 

Tug 'attacked' at Ghanaian port Accident/Salvage 6 

Tug boat runs aground, underscoring need for dredging of 

Fraser River 


Tug boats arrive early for operations at LNG terminal Tugs/Towing 23 

Tug called to keep cargo ship in position off the beach Accident/Salvage 35 

Tug caused oil spill in Eckernförde Tugs/Towing 27 

Tug Cleveland sold to McAllister Towing Tugs/Towing 7 

Tug heading home Tugs/Towing 10 

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Tug hit by harbour ferry Tugs/Towing 34 

Tug hit tug Accident/Salvage 7 

Tug in flames Tugs/Towing 8 

Tug Karin transport NMF cranes Tugs/Towing 48 

Tug kept from sinking after collision in Esbjerg Accident/Salvage 26 

Tug lifted for transport to the Far East Tugs/Towing 23 

Tug Lina - history not known Tugs/Towing 16 

Tug London reports towing Bangladesh to Singapore Tugs/Towing 3 

Tug Malta successfully completes rig transportation from 

Alessandria Egypt to Limassol Cyprus 

Tugs/Towing 2 

tug Marechiaro update Tugs/Towing 51 

Tug on order for NZ's Centreport Wellington Tugs/Towing 22 

tug Pawlina smashing into St. Elmo breakwater Malta News 10 

Tug returned with broken tanker Tugs/Towing 36 

Tug righted and refloated Accident/Salvage 13 

Tug Rotterdam reports Tugs/Towing 36 

Tug safety research Tugs/Towing 51 

Tug Serval with yard number 9393 for Harlingen Tugs/Towing 32 

Tug Tetra II with jack-up rig Kinoa unreported Tugs/Towing 23 

Tug to trial EPA Tier 3 Cat engines Tugs/Towing 22 

Tug, barge run aground on North Jetty rocks Accident/Salvage 38 

Tug, Pilot Boats Strike in Argentina Tugs/Towing 31 

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Tugboat Aquarius sinks off Lizard in Cornwall with one crew 

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Tugboat Benjamin Bailey has been raised Tugs/Towing 44 

Tugboat capsizes near NYC’s Liberty Island; 3 crewmen 

rescued and taken for medical treatment 


Tugboat Capsizing Near Memorial Bridge Tugs/Towing 8 

Tugboat catches fire, delaying Aloha Cargo Transport 

shipment from Seattle to Hawaii 


Tugboat contracted for Memorial Bridge work sinks Tugs/Towing 43 

Tugboat Crew Escapes After Norton Sound Grounding Tugs/Towing 42 

Tugboat designer Awarded S.S. Beaver Medal Tugs/Towing 49 

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Tugboat docked on Intracoastal Canal burned for 12 hours Tugs/Towing 48 

Tugboat frees ferry from Lake Erie sandbar Tugs/Towing 42 

Tugboat from China Tugs/Towing 34 

Tugboat HANDY-THREE Arrives in San Juan as New Addition 

to Puerto Rico Towing & Barge Co. Fleet 


Tugboat hearing Tugs/Towing 32 

Tugboat of design 16609 hull no. 623 launched Tugs/Towing 47 

Tugboat Sinks on Fraser River Tugs/Towing 27 

Tugboat sinks while towing drilling rig in Azov Sea Tugs/Towing 46 

Tugboat strikes boathouse; barges run aground; Intracoastal 

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Tugboats sinks in Potomac at C&O Canal site Tugs/Towing 12 

Tugerhaai seen in Troon Tugs/Towing 14 

Tuglovers day in Terneuzen Tugs/Towing 39 

Tugs from Boluda Towage and Salvage assist the perforation 

platform Constellation in the port of Las Palmas 


Tugs help free grounded freighter Accident/Salvage 31 

Tugs of Boluda Towage and Salvage in the Great Race of 

Cádiz 2012 


Tugs under construction Tugs/Towing 35 

Tundra Aground off Sorel PQ Accident/Salvage 49 

Turbine Installation Vessel ‘Brave Tern’ Launched Wind Farm 20 

Turkish Quartet make Big Maiden Voyage Tugs/Towing 29 

Twin screw tug King Philip Tugs/Towing 40 

Twins arrived after 12,700 miles sailing Tugs/Towing 14 

Twins for bunkers in Cape Town Tugs/Towing 6 

Two Canadian’s on Burlington Ship Canal Tugs/Towing 20 

Two christenings at Damen Shipyard Galati Tugs/Towing 17 

Two crewboats sold to mexico Offshore News 48 

Two Damen tugs for Svitzer Middle East Yard News 49 

Two for Statoil Offshore News 21 

Two for the Australian Navy Tugs/Towing 46 

Two HSSV’s on charter Wind Farm 45 

Two large tugs shipped by Landfall on board of SAL's "Trina" Tugs/Towing 52 

Two Macduff Designed DOT Tugs Complete Sea Trials Tugs/Towing 21 

Two More Ramform Titan-Class Vessels for Norwegian Yard News 42 

Two nearly completed Tugs/Towing 7 

Two new buildings for Farstad Shipping Yard News 25 

Two new Damen tugs enroute to Qatar Tugs/Towing 36 

Two new tugs for Rimorchiatori Tugs/Towing 23 

Two newbuildings on the Royal Niestern Sander Shipyard Yard News 2 

Two nostalgic ships of 1959 Tugs/Towing 36 

Two Royal Australian Navy tugs handed over Tugs/Towing 48 

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Two StanTug 2608 delivered to Morocco Tugs/Towing 4 

Two suppliers join the SNS Pool Offshore News 9 

Two tugs arrived on Jumbo Vision in Rotterdam Tugs/Towing 42 

Two tugs attacked in Indonesian waters over the weekend Tugs/Towing 34 

Two tugs made inland trip to Murmansk Tugs/Towing 29 

Two tugs sink in river; cleanup underway Tugs/Towing 34 

TY Offshore and FMT Industries Christen and Launch FMT 

3242 


TY Offshore Launches FMT 3248 Offshore News 51 

Typhoon sold and renamed Gudri Tugs/Towing 35 

Typhoontje Tugs/Towing 21 

UUU 

U.S. flag twin screw tug "Spartan Service" sold 

Tugs/Towing 

32 

U.S. Navy Delivers Two 60m OSVs to Iraqi Navy Offshore News 52 

UAE flag and owned tugboat HANRUYAH berthed at Pinto 3 Malta News 4 

Ugland Offshore Orders Platform Supply Vessel from Kleven Yard News 23 

Uisge Gorm Tugs/Towing 3 

Ukraine towed from the Middetarean to the Black Sea Tugs/Towing 41 

Ukrainian bulk carrier Ocean Breeze disabled in Dardanelles Accident/Salvage 2 

Ulstein delivers PSV ‘Blue Prosper’ Offshore News 36 

Ulstein delivers quality vessel on time Offshore News 25 

Ulstein Design PSV Blue Prosper Secures Contract with 

Apache in North Sea 


Ulstein Launches Blue Prosper PSV Wind Farm 19 

Ulstein LAunches New PSV for Blue Ship Invest Offshore News 2 

Ulstein PSV deliveres in Brazil Offshore News 20 

Ulstein Verft Launches IMR Vessel ‘Seven Viking’ Offshore News 42 

Ulstein, GC Rieber Develop SX121 Design Subsea Vessel Yard News 35 

Ulupinar XV: An update to Sanmar’s successful series of ASD 

tugs 


Union Sovereign visit Curacao with Castoro 7 Tugs/Towing 50 

Unknown Tug Tugs/Towing 10 

Unknown? Tugs/Towing 20 

unusual transport on the Kiel Canal Tugs/Towing 42 

Up Jade for bunker in Cape Town Offshore News 29 

UR 94 Offshore News 34 

Uranus and Ensco 5001 Tugs/Towing 49 

Ursus & Janus with FPSO PSVM Tugs/Towing 3 

Ursus visit Cape Town Tugs/Towing 6 

US Navy Takes Delivery of Future Offshore Support Vessels 

‘Al Basrah’ 


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US Navy, Alpha Marine Services Sign MV Kellie Chouest 

Contract 


US Salvors to Remove Pieces of Rena Wreck Accident/Salvage 30 

USAN project offshore Nigeria completed Offshore News 2 

Utility boat sold Offshore News 13 

VVV 

Van der Wees claimt miljoenen van gemeente Zwijndrecht Tugs/Towing 

44 

Van Oord Takes Delivery of Damen Multi Cat 3213 Tugs/Towing 15 

Vanguard Yesteryear 38 

Varada Queen visit Cape Town Offshore News 27 

VB Artico to tow Algocape to Aliaga Tugs/Towing 29 

VEKA Launches First High Speed Craft Wind Farm 48 

Veka-Group builds catamaran for offshore industry Wind Farm 32 

Venezuelan Aquatic Authority INEA orders three Damen tugs Tugs/Towing 3 

Venezuelan group expands KTK-Panama fleet with 2 new 

tugboats 


Veronica towed to Amsterdam Tugs/Towing 47 

Vessel attracts attention in Frederikshavn Offshore News 50 

Vessel Naming Ceremony for Tugboat HANDY-THREE Tugs/Towing 18 

Vessel towed to port in gale force winds Tugs/Towing 30 

Victims of tug fire returned home - fire triggered by butane 

torch 


Vigeo Shipping acquires Siem Danis Offshore News 16 

Vigilant in Cape Town spotted Cape Town News 15 

Vigor vies for OPC contract with Ulstein X-Bow design Yard News 38 

Viking Energy extension with Statoil Offshore News 49 

Viking Princess Goes Down the Slipway Offshore News 16 

Viking Supply Ships and Sakhalin Energy start cooperation Offshore News 18 

Viking Supply Ships awarded term contract by Chevron 

Canada Ltd 


Viking Supply Ships contract with Centrica Energy extended Accident/Salvage 39 

Viking Supply Ships contract with Talisman Energy (UK) 

Limited extended 


Viking Supply ships enters into charter contract for SBS 

Typhoon 


Vikingbank launched Tugs/Towing 12 

Vlieland in drydock Tugs/Towing 24 

Vlieland towed Crane barge to Rotterdam Tugs/Towing 2 

Voe Chief Tugs/Towing 40 

Voe Earl commenced trails and Christening ceremony Tugs/Towing 2 

Voith and Robert Allan implement new tug concept Tugs/Towing 36 

Voith announces the first Voith Linear Jet order Wind Farm 9 

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Voith Provides Propulsion System for Another Wind Turbine 


Wind Farm 30 

Voith Provides Propulsion System for Another Wind Turbine 


Wind Farm 47 

Voith tug Carron Yesteryear 30 

Voith’s New VWT ‘Ilan’ Completes Sea Trials Tugs/Towing 24 

Volodymyr Ivanov delivered Tugs/Towing 52 

Volstad Orders Offshore Construction Vessel from Bergen 

Group 

Yard News 14 

VOS Maestrale for sale Tugs/Towing 17 

VOS Maestrale for sale Offshore News 25 

VOS Prelude entering Grand Harbour from Amposta Oilfield 16 

VOS Sailor Severely Damaged, the Owner Says Accident/Salvage 51 

VOS Shine christened in Den Helder Offshore News 26 

VOS Shine completes charter with Bluestream Offshore Offshore News 50 

VOS SHINE entering Valletta during her maiden voyage Malta News 18 

VOS Vigilant - Namegiving Ceremony Offshore News 9 

Vripack designs heavy duty Ribbon Offshore Wind Farm 50 

Vroon Holds Naming Ceremony for VOS Thalassa Offshore News 29 

Vroon Offshore Service take delivery of VOS Ares Offshore News 1 

Vroon Offshore Services take delivery of VOS Athena Offshore News 2 

Vroon Offshore Services take delivery of VOS Athos Offshore News 29 

Vroon Offshore Services take delivery of VOS Atlanta Accident/Salvage 39 

Vroon Offshore Services take delivery of VOS Atlas Offshore News 44 

Vroon Offshore Services take delivery of VOS Sweet Offshore News 47 

Vroon takes delivery of VOS Thalia Offshore News 15 

VS Rotterdam renamed Tugs/Towing 40 

VSP tug “SPINOLA” again in Tunisia for a rig move Tugs/Towing 16 

VT Halter Delivers ATB for Bouchard Tugs/Towing 42 

Vulcan Materials christens new tugboat Tugs/Towing 41 

Vyborg Shipyard Cuts Steel for Icebreaker of Project 21900М Yard News 35 

Advertisement 

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Vyborg Shipyard Delivers Final Blocks for Sovcomflot’s 

Second Supply Vessel 

Vyborg Shipyard starts building 16MW icebreaker of Project 

21900M 

WWW 

Wagenborg barge ready to deliver the last STS cranes in 

Tenerife 

Wagenborg Towage has been awarded to transport 4 giant 

STS(Ship To Shore) cranes from Amsterdam to Spain. 

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Yard News 25 

Yard News 52 

Tugs/Towing 

46 


Ward Tide visitor Durban Harbour Offshore News 22 

Wartsila Provides Ship Designs for Three PSVs Yard News 30 

Wartsila to Design New DSV for Subsea 7 Yard News 52 

Wartsila to Design Six Offshore Vessels for COSL Yard News 52 

Wärtsilä to Power Four Svitzer Tugboats Tugs/Towing 33 

Was this a tug before? Tugs/Towing 52 

Waterlelie in drydock Tugs/Towing 11 

Wattle – Stan Tug 1606 Damen deliveries 32 

Wayward tugboat damage to Johnson Street bridge be fixed Tugs/Towing 50 

Wedell drydocked for drive work, inspection Tugs/Towing 16 

Welcome for emergency tug announcement Tugs/Towing 24 

Wellington port plans to buy new tug Tugs/Towing 18 

Wellingtonians to name new tug Tugs/Towing 22 

WesternGeco Orders Two Seismic Vessels in Germany Yard News 24 

William J Moore laying up on Curacao Tugs/Towing 50 

Willowgarth came over for drydocking Tugs/Towing 20 

Wilson Sons Announces Acquisition of PSV from Singaporean 

Shipyard 

Yard News 39 

Wilson Sons to Build 4 PSVs for Petrobras Yard News 11 

Wilson, Sons delivers two Damen-designed Platform Supply 

Vessels for Wilson Sons Ultratug Offshore 


Wind Farm Support Vessesl to DNV Class Wind Farm 4 

Wind Farm Vessels Face Difficulties Off East Anglia Wind Farm 47 

Wind turbine transfer evolution from Houlder Wind Farm 40 

Windcat Workboats Launches Its New Catamaran Wind Farm 13 

Windfarm Maintenance Vessels Named at Port of Ostend Wind Farm 45 

Winter in Den Helder Offshore News 7 

Winter wonderland Tugs/Towing 52 

Within 30 years, Atlas has become an international leading 

recruitment company 


Work boat grounded on breakwater Accident/Salvage 21 

Work- Towboat Kokhaan to new owners Tugs/Towing 7 

Workboat capsized Accident/Salvage 10 

World Marine Offshore awarded contract Wind Farm 30


World Maritime Offshore Orders 6 WFSV's Wind Farm 24 

World Wide Supply orders 2 more Damen Platform Supply 

Vessels 

Yard News 6 

World’s First LNG Fuelled Tug Tugs/Towing 3 

Wreck removal due to start Accident/Salvage 33 

Wuhu Xinlian secures first PSV orders Yard News 43 

WUTA Tugs/Towing 46 

YYY 

Yal Spotted 

Tugs/Towing 

1 

Yard number 571623 on trails Tugs/Towing 22 

Yard number 571662 commenced trails Tugs/Towing 10 

Yard number 571664 commenced trails Tugs/Towing 50 



Yard number 622 Launched Tugs/Towing 23 

Yard number YX3157 launched Offshore News 19 

Yard sea trials Rascal 2000 successfully finished Tugs/Towing 49 

Yesteryears Tugs/Towing 8 

Yuexin delivers anchor handler ADS Arendal Offshore News 34 

Yuexin delivers 'Weyland Tide' to Tidewater Offshore News 38 

Yuexin Shipbuilding to Build 10 AHTS Vessels Yard News 10 

Yuexin Shipyard Hands Over New AHTS Vessel to Martens 

Marine 


Yuexin Shipyard Lays Keel for 32m ASD YX3177 Tugs/Towing 19 

Yuexin Shipyard Lays Keel for 58.7m AHTS Vessel YX3160 Wind Farm 19 

Yuexin Starts Construction of New ASD Tug Yard News 1 

ZZZ 

Zaliv has delivered the next vessel for oil-gas sector 

Yard News 

36 

Zaliv renewed cooperation with Damen Yard News 7 

Zaria returned with some problems Tugs/Towing 32 

Zeefakkel towed to repair yard Tugs/Towing 4 

Zeeschelde Tugs/Towing 21 

Zeeschelde commenced trails Tugs/Towing 41 

Zetland Yesteryear 27 


Zhejiang Shipbuilding Delivers Ulstein Designed PSV to 

Bourbon 

Zhenjiang Shipyard splashes multi-purpose working vessel Offshore News 29 

ZNT Yard delivers to Rosmorport TG04M project tug ahead of 

schedule 


Z-Tech 6500 Class Terminal/Assist Tug for ICDAS Tugs/Towing 34 

Zumaia VIII for sale Tugs/Towing 7 

Zwalkend over Zeeën en Oceanen Tugs/Towing 42 

Zwerver III Wind Farm 34 

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