Buksér og Berging e-tug is about for supply in November 2023 and can be a part of the operator’s Port of Oslo fleet.
Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards has booked one other e-tug order. It has signed an order that can see it construct a zero-emission ElectRA 2200SX design tugboat for Norway’s Buksér og Berging. The order comes arduous on the heels of that for 2 ElectRA 2300SX battery electrical tugs just lately positioned with Sanmar by SAAM towage for its Vancouver operations. Both the Electra 2200SX and 2300SX are exclusive-to-Sanmar Robert Allan Ltd designs.
The Buksér og Berging vessel is about for supply in November 2023 and can be a part of the Norwegian operator’s Port of Oslo fleet. The firm already operates seven Sanmar-built which embody the Tier lll emissions compliant sister escort tugs Bamse and Bob and the Borgoy and Bokn, the world’s first two purely LNG-fueled tugboats.
The just-ordered Buksér og Berging ElectRA 2200SX e-tug may have a 22.4 meters total size, a molded beam of 10.84 meters and a molded depth of 4.4 meters. With a bollard pull forward of 45 tons and a velocity of 11.8 knots, it is going to be powered by a 1,718 kWh battery set up, two 1,400 kW electrical motors and Schottel SRP 340 LE FP thrusters. A Caterpillar C32 IMO Tier lll switchable marine generator set will present 940 eKW at 1,800 rev/min.
Deck tools will embody a DMT TW-E250kN fore winch, Data Hidrolik DTH 50-120P tow hook, Palfinger PK11001MC deck crane and Data Hidrolik DTC 4000 EP-L rope reel.
The tug might be constructed to ABS classifications A1, Towing vessel, +AMS, +ABCU, BP, ESS Li-Battery, UWILD.
“We have seen a huge amount of interest in the ElectRA range as tug and towing operators around the world agree that action must be taken to protect the environment and combat climate change,” stated Ruchan Civgin, business director of Sanmar Shipyards. “What the advanced technology of the ElectRA series of tugs does is to provide them with the means to make this change happen. The zero-emission ElectRA series is a game-changer in the world of ship-handling tugboats, not least in that these tugs’ green credentials have been achieved with no loss of power, performance, strength or versatility.”
