Svitzer Orders Six Tugs at Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyard

Svitzer has signed a newbuilding contract with Sanmar Shipyard in Turkey for the development of six terminal tugs to satisfy new contracts in varied markets, the corporate stated Wednesday.

Delivery of the primary vessel is predicted in This autumn 2016.

The new fleet shall be 70 Tonne bollard pull RAstar 2800-E Class ASD tugs, that are terminal tugs with escort functionality and lodging area for eight crew members. The tugs are outfitted with double drum DMT render winch, 2000 KW MTU 16V4000M63 engines, Schottel SRP 1515 thrusters and central cooling system. They are purpose-built for decent climates and are absolutely ready for FiFi1 notation with water spray.

“We have placed an order for six ASD tugs to fulfil Svitzer’s current and upcoming new contracts. These new tugs are key elements in fulfilling our profitable growth strategy”, says Kristian Brauner, Chief Technical Officer of Svitzer. He continues, “Sanmar was selected due to their outstanding safety performance and construction quality, and a competitive price. We are very much looking forward to the tugs being completed and deployed in our fleet.”

“The vessels will support our ambitious growth strategy by delivering versatile, quality tugs that will give us an edge when competing for contracts particularly in the growth markets where we have several opportunities in the pipeline”, says Kasper Friis Nilaus, Chief Commercial Officer of Svitzer, with out going into specifics concerning the alternatives.

“We are proud to be the winner of this tender which required hard work, commitment and dedication of all our team. We are very much looking forward to utilising Sanmar’s expertise with Svitzer’s experience. This project is a good example of building and delivering high quality tugs with top level health and safety standards but with competitive prices; but still built in Europe.” says Ali Gürün, Member of Board of Sanmar.

The RAstar Escort/ Offshore Terminal Tug sequence of high-performance ASD tugs is designed by Robert Allan Ltd in Canada.