Local Shipping – Tugboat MED ALDEBARAN christened at Malta – 04.12.2024
Today Wednesday 4th December Tug Malta held a naming ceremony for her latest tugboat MED ALDEBARAN , a Damen RSD Tug 2513 at Pinto 3 Wharf, part of Valletta Cruise Port (VCP). Damen and Tug Malta signed the contract for the vessel in March this year. Following completion of construction at Damen Song Cam Shipyard […]
Delivery – Tug SMIT EUROPE – 2007
One of the Turkish built tugs, trading around is the 2007 built multi purpose escort ASD tug SMIT EUROPE. She entered Valletta on 15th August 2007 straight from the shipyard – Bogazici Denizcilik A.S of which she was built as BOGAZICI 1 trading until July. She was berthed at Gun Wharf for few hours manned […]
Tugboats – FAIRPLAY 21
One of the Spanish built tugs trading in the German Towage Industry is the 1997 built tug FAIRPLAY 21 which has identical sisters – FAIRPLAY 22, 23 and 24. She was built by Naveles Santodomingo to a design from Aarts Marine BV for the German Towage Company – Fairplay Towage of which invested 19million in […]
Delivery – ASD Tugboat VB MAGNUM – 26.04.2023
On Wednesday 26th April, 2023 the Turkish built 28.40 metre ASD 2885 Tug (Robert Allan Design) RAstar 2800 tugboat VB MAGNUM entered Valletta for few hours for uplifting bunkers during her delivery voyage. She entered Valletta at 1146 hrs coming from Eregli, Turkey. She was launched as MED XLIII at the Turkish shipbuilder Med Marine. […]
Delivery – Damen RSD 2513 tugboat SENGLEA to Tug Malta – January 2021.
On Friday 15th January, 2021 Damen Shipyards Group handed over a new, next-generation, Damen RSD Tug 2513 SENGLEA to Tug Malta, Malta’s leading tug operator. Tug Malta, which is owned by Rimorchiatori Mediterranei Spa (Rimorchiatori Riuniti Group), placed the order for the vessel in November 2019. First introduced on 26th April 2018 by the tug INNOVATION the […]
Towage – ST.ANGELO towing Cruise Ship Hull 6289 – 20.04.2020
An interesting towage currently underway is the Maltese tug ST. ANGELO towing the hull block of the Virgin Voyages Cruise Ship No 3 known as HULL 6289 from VARD Tulcea, Romania bound to Sestri Ponente Fincantieri at Genoa giving ETA of Tuesday 28th April, 2020. ST.ANGELO was built in 2017 by Damen Shipyards, Galati as ASD tug […]
Towage – BOA BRAGE towing BOABARGE 34 – 12.04.2020
One of the towages currently underway is the Norwegian tug BOA BRAGE towing the 140 metres long barge BOABARGE 34 from Rotterdam bound to Gdansk, Poland giving ETA of Friday 17th April, 2020. BOA BRAGE was built in 2009 by Med Marine, Turkey as ASD tug Rampart 3200 design and homeported at Valletta, Malta with […]
