the 21.02 meter lengthy ASD Tug 2111 delivers a 50 tons bollard pull.
Damen Shipyards Group has unveiled the most recent vessel in its Compact Tugs product platform, including the 21.02 meter lengthy ASD Tug 2111 to the ASD Tug 2312 within the line up.
“As sea-going ships continue to increase in size, new challenges are arising in ports,” says Damen Product portfolio supervisor Siebe Cieraad, explaining the pondering behind this subsequent technology collection of tugs. “Tugs are required to operate – safely – with less space, at the same time needing increased power to perform. This 21-meter harbor tug with a 50 ton bollard pull is therefore a very exciting addition to our portfolio.”
The new compact ASD tug, in widespread with different vessels in Damen’s portfolio, options quite a few security options. For instance, it boasts a excessive freeboard, which retains water on deck to an absolute minimal. It additionally options ample tumblehome, enabling it to get safely up near an assisted vessel. An extra function is the tug’s full imaginative and prescient bridge. This gives a 360-degree view from the deck home over the encircling waters in addition to the deck each fore and aft.
Making the ASD Tug 2111 even safer, are its clutter-free decks. A significant component in that is the placement of the winch within the deck home. With this, fore and aft towing operations are carried out with a single winch. As effectively as making the decks clutter-free, this has the added benefit of sheltering the winch from the weather, thereby decreasing upkeep.
Damen says that low upkeep is within the ASD Tug 2111’s DNA. The design options the shipbuilder’s confirmed closed loop keel cooling system. Reducing the quantity of on board sea water techniques to an absolute minimal, lowers the quantity of erosion-related upkeep.
Damen has integrated a brand new electrical energy technology system within the Compact Tugs vary. The system is ready to generate electrical energy by drawing on the ample accessible energy of the principle engines, decreasing gasoline consumption and emissions in consequence.
An extra enhance to effectivity comes from the tug’s 2.4 meter diameter propeller, whose giant dimension delivers elevated thrust. The ASD Tug 2111 additionally options the patented Damen Twin Fin to make sure excellent course holding and predictable crusing conduct throughout each free crusing and bow to bow operations.
Damen says its ambition to be the world’s most sustainable and related shipbuilder on the earth and the ASD Tug 2111 is supplied with all crucial tools to be remotely related through the Damen Triton IoT platform and is technically appropriate for 2 man operation.
Fitted with IMO Tier II compliant engines, the tug can obtain IMO Tier III certification due to the elective fitted Damen Emission Reduction System. This in home designed exhaust fuel aftertreatment system reduces the nitrogen oxides (NOX) from the vessel’s emission earlier than they attain the environment. This system could be fitted within the current exhaust silencers — making it additionally a simple retrofit within the vessel at a later stage in its life time .
Additionally, Damen is engaged on full electrical variations of its compact ASD tugs. These vessels will comply with within the footsteps of the profitable RSD-E Tug 2513, Damen’s first absolutely electrical zero emissions tug, a milestone on the highway to maritime decarbonization.
“We are very pleased to announce this development in our Compact Tugs range and are looking forward to the next stages,” says Siebe. “In line with our construction of tugs in series for stock, we are already building six ASD Tugs 2111 at Damen Shipyards Changde, in China. In this way, as of Q3 this year, we will be able to offer operators fast access to the latest in tug technology, with all the increases in safety, sustainability, reliability, and efficiency this implies.”
