Towage/Tugboats
News about towage activities, services and the manufacture of tugboats. Towage refers to the service of pulling or guiding ships or other floating objects, typically provided by tugboats. Tugboats are powerful, maneuverable vessels designed to assist larger ships in harbours, rivers, or through difficult navigational areas by towing, pushing, or guiding them to their destinations.
Med Marine wins contract from Vernicos Scafi Group
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 17, 2024 – Med Marine and SVS Maritime, owned by the Vernicos Scafi Group, signed a contract for the construction...
Boluda Towage buys Resolve Salvage & Fire, Gibraltar
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2024 – Boluda Towage, part of Boluda Corporación MarÃtima, has acquired Resolve Salvage and...
Towage company Port Flot-Burgas reports improved financials
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 29, 2024 – Last week, Â Port Flot-Burgas, a port towage services company, reported non-consolidated net profit...
Boluda Towage starts operations in Port of Abu Qir, Egypt
Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 29, 2024 – This month, Boluda Towage has started towage operations in the Egyptian Abu Qir’s container...
Svitzer signs a contract to service Gastrade’s Alexandroupolis INGS
Alexandroupolis, Greece (PortSEurope) July 17, 2023 – Svitzer, a global towage provider and part of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has signed a 15-year contract to...
Boluda Towage holds talks in Port of AlmerÃa
AlmerÃa, Spain (Ports Europe) June 8, 2022 – The director of Boluda Towage Spain, José Antonio Merchán, has held discussions with the president of...
Boluda Towage Spain adds 7,000 HP tugboat to Valencia port fleet
The VB SIDI has a 72.5-ton bollard pull Valencia, 20 January 2022 The arrival of the VB SIDI tug, with a 72.5 ton-bollard pull and nearly 7,000 horsepower,...
Boluda Towage adds capacity at Port of València
València, Spain (Ports Europe) January 21, 2022 – Boluda Towage Spain has added a tug vessel “VB SIDI” to its fleet operating at the Port...
Mein Schiff 2 restarts cruise activity in the Port of València
València, June 27, 2021 – Early in the morning at the North entrance of the Port of València it made its entrance, escorted and received by arcs of...
Boluda Towage acquires Dutch Towage & Salvage Company Iskes
Vicente Boluda Ceballos, Boluda Towage SL, and Jim Iskes has today signed in Amsterdam an agreement with the Dutch family-owned Towage & Salvage company,...
Svitzer orders exclusive tug design from Turkey’s Med Marine
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 13, 2020 – Svitzer, a tugboat operator, has signed a contract for MED-A2360 series tugboat from Med Marine. The...
Global Ports Investments PLC appoints new Chief Operational Officer
Global Ports Investments PLC has announced that Marc Niederer has been appointed as the Chief Operational Officer of Global Ports Management LLC, responsible...
Boluda Towage closes acquisition of Dutch company Kotug Smit Towage
Boluda Towage, a towing division of Boluda Corporación MarÃtima, successfully closes the acquisitiom of the Dutch company Kotug Smit Towage – July 31,...
Boluda family establishes subsidiary for mergers and acquisitions
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – The Boluda family is preparing to purchase new companies under the umbrella of Grupo Boluda...
Svitzer to deliver two tugboats to Suez Canal Authority
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) April 8, 2019 – Leading global towage operator Svitzer has signed a 10-year agreement with Port Suez in Egypt to deliver two...
Kotug, Boskalis to sell towage business to Spain’s Boluda
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Dutch companies Kotug International and Royal Boskalis Westminster NV have announced the signing of a letter...
Spain’s Boluda names director of towage, tankers, shipping divisions
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) November 28, 2018 – Spanish company Boluda Corporación MarÃtima has appointed Javier Climent Melián as...
Associated British Ports to work with Rolls Royce and Svitzer to develop the next generation of technologies
London, United Kingdom, August 13, 2018 Associated British Ports, the UK’s leading port operator, today announces that it has invited Rolls Royce and...
Boluda participates in transfer of first offshore wind turbine in Spain
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2018 – Last week, Boluda Towage and Salvage, using the tugboat “VB Mediterraneo”,...
Boluda Lomé handles 1.2 million TEUs in 2017
Lomé, Togo (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – Boluda Lomé, concessionaire of the towing and mooring service in the port of Lomé, Togo, and a subsidiary of...