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		<title>Introduction</title>
		<content><![CDATA[The aim of this site is to provide information on towage, salvage and related industries. On one hand it will be used for TugDoc International&#039;s business-to-business activities while on the other hand it will be informative to others in- and outside of the towage and salvage community. As this is a new venture the site is still partly under construction so frequent modifications can be expected. .]]></content>
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		<title>TugDoc International</title>
		<content><![CDATA[TugDoc International was formally established on 1 March, 2014. Our specialty is in communication and research on tugs, towage, salvage and workboats. TugDoc International writes &amp;lsquo;on spec&amp;rsquo; as well as on contract. In many cases we can deliver illustrations with text. Through our network we also can deliver a full-range service including graphic design, DTP and copy-editing. Services are performed in either the Dutch or the English language as required. We also perform research and provide consultancy on the tugboat market. TDI Maritime Research &amp;amp; Consultancy and TDI Tugboat Publications are trading names of TugDoc International. .]]></content>
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		<title><![CDATA[TDI Maritime Research & Consultancy]]></title>
		<content><![CDATA[TDI Maritime Research &amp;amp; Consultancy performs research and provides consultancy services on tugs and the tugboat market. Research is carried out &#039;on spec&#039; as well as on contract. Over the years - albeit under different banners - services have been rendered to various companies in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Scandinavia and the Caribbean. To back our research we operate one of the largest tugboat databases in the world, built up from the times before computers existed. This database and our extensive collection of documentation and illustrations also serve as a basis for our tugboat publications..]]></content>
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		<title>TDI Tugboat Publications</title>
		<content><![CDATA[TDI Tugboat Publications Publications on tugboats, towage, salvage and the supporting industry have been issued since 1975. These took the form of magazine articles, as well as special publications. Currently, content is made available &#039;on spec&#039; as well as on contract to magazines and other periodicals in the target area. With content written &#039;on spec&#039; there is an opportunity for suppliers to have information on their products combined with information from our extensive database into a readable article which will be offered to a variety of suitable publications. For shipyards orders and deliveries can be made into an extensive article attractive for highlighted publication. For owners / operators it means that your company may be brought to the attention on other occasions than just through press releases alone. .]]></content>
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		<title>Our Background</title>
		<content><![CDATA[Background TugDoc International is owned and operated by Job van Eijk. He has a background in hydraulic engineering, coastal hydrographic surveying, underwater acoustics, sonar operations, quality assurance and operational vessel planning. He also spend time in vessel management and business development for workboats, as well as in- and external communications. As far as tugs are concerned, he has always had an interest in tugs and for over 40 years has been building a large database of information on tugs and related vessel types and compiled an extensive documentation on the subject including a large photographic collection. He has been an editor of Lekko Netherlands Magazine and chief-editor of Lekko International, the tug and towage magazine. Written numerous articles on the subjects, published three editions of the famous &amp;ldquo;Tugs, 3000 hp and over&amp;rdquo; tugboat register, did editorial work on books and over the years carried out market research on a variety of tug-related subjects on contract basis..]]></content>
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		<content><![CDATA[Largest-ever order for Voith Water Tractors &quot;Maro&quot; and &quot;Roma&quot; sailed .]]></content>
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		<loc>http://www.tugdoc.nl/tugboat_headlines/sanmar_delivers_two_bogacay_class_tugs</loc>
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		<title>Sanmar delivers two Bogacay Class Tugs</title>
		<content><![CDATA[Sanmar delivers two Bogacay Class Tugs Two new Sanmar Bogacay Class ASD tugs, both second vessels of their power range are delivered to their owners&amp;hellip; Rimorchiatori Riuniti took delivery in Genoa, Italy, of RR Turchia (Bogacay 702), a Bogacay Class 70 tonne bollard pull ASD built in Sanmar&amp;rsquo;s state-of-the-art shipyard at Tuzla, Turkey. Although the vessel was completed in under three months from the date of order, the origins of the class go back to the builder&amp;rsquo;s earlier discussions with the Italian customer and designer Robert Allan Ltd with the express intent of meeting that owner&amp;rsquo;s specific needs. Interestingly, three other operators also like the end result, having already opted for this design, the Ramparts 2400 SX, which is a Sanmar exclusive. The highly successful 24.4m LOA Ulupinar class, of which more than 20 have now been built or are under construction, is the inspiration behind the design but with a beam of 11.25m, a full 2m more than its much acclaimed predecessor. This extra beam offers extra stability and the ability to fit two Caterpillar 3515C HD main diesel engines, each developing 2,000kW at 1,600 rev/min, coupled to Rolls-Royce type US 255 Z-drives to give a healthy 70 tonnes bollard pull and a free-running speed of 12.5 knots. Customers as far apart as Italy and Peru approve of new custom design In the past, Sanmar has delivered seven tugboats to the Italian market for five different owners. Familiarity with Italian flag rules was a distinct advantage in securing this contract as was the ability of an experienced Sanmar delivery crew to take the new vessel from Turkey to Genoa, its new home port. However, it is a TOS crew that is sailing a marginally less powerful version of the same design on its delivery voyage to Peru and into the hands of Svitzer Americas for duty at an LNG terminal in Melchorita near Pisco. Named Bogacay II (Bogacay 602), this vessel has a 60 tonne bollard pull delivered from a twin installation of Caterpillar 3512C HD main engines, each developing 1765kW. Despite its compact size, all Bogacay class tugs benefit from spacious accommodation for up to six persons, and can be fitted with an external fire-fighting system up to FiFi1 class notation. These two most recent completions demonstrate Sanmar&amp;rsquo;s ability to deliver tailor-made versions of proven designs with the minimum of fuss and delay..]]></content>
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		<title>Unterweser orders two ASD 2411</title>
		<content><![CDATA[Unterweser orders two ASD 2411 URAG - Unterweser Reederei AG - the Bremerhaven-based port and offshore towage provider based in Bremerhaven, has placed an order for two Damen ASD 2411 tugs. This contract follows an order placed in September 2013 for an identical vessel which is under management by L&amp;uuml;tgens &amp;amp; Reimers (L&amp;amp;R) in Hamburg. L&amp;amp;R is an affiliated company of URAG, both being part of the LIinnhoff Schiffahrt Group. The initial vessel, named Prompt, was ready for delivery within three months of the contract being signed and it was the positive experience with her that lead to the order from URAG. Damen has delivered ASD Tugs 2411 all over the world. Both newbuilds, like the Prompt, will be built and outfitted according to the customer&amp;rsquo;s requirements at Damen&amp;rsquo;s partner yard in Vietnam, before being delivered to Germany in early 2015. URAG has been in business for over 120 years and currently operates a fleet of 17 harbour and offshore tugs..]]></content>
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		<title>Tugboat Press Corner</title>
		<content>Press Corner Home of the press releases issued by the industry..</content>
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		<title>The Press Releases</title>
		<content><![CDATA[Voith wins record contract for Voith Schneider Propellers In South Africa&amp;rsquo;s largest local shipbuilding contract Transnet National Ports Authority has ordered nine new Voith Water Tractors (VWT) for use in several ports across the country. This is also the largest order in the history of Voith marine technology. The VWT will be built by South African Shipyards in Durban over the next 42 months. Eight of the tugs will be identical in construction with a length of 31 meters and a beam of 12.5 meters. Propelled by two Voith Schneider Propellers VSP 32R5/265-2 with a power of 2 x 2,650kW they will have a bollard pull of 70 tons. The VWT will be utilized for harbor towage in the ports of Saldanha Bay, Port Elizabeth, Durban and Richard&amp;rsquo;s Bay. Another VWT will achieve a bollard pull of more than 100 tons and therefore is one of the strongest ever equipped. Propelled by two VSP 36R6EC/285-2 it offers Transnet a wider escort envelope to protect the ecologically sensitive coastal areas of the West coast. Powered by 2 x 3,900kW it is 37.1 meters long and has a beam of 13.5 meters. In addition to the VSP, the Voith scope of supply for each Water Tractor comprises two turbo couplings and two Renk couplings. The eight identical Voith Water Tractors will get a mechanical control system, the 100 tons bollard pull VWT will be equipped with a Voith electronic steering system. These components are to be delivered between 2015 and 2017. Furthermore Voith will provide local training, skills development and capacity building to Transnet employees. This ensures to further optimize the safe and efficient utilization of the VWT fleet. Transnet manages all eight commercial seaports in South Africa and provides port infrastructure and marine services for the handling of the international freight traffic. To date, the company already operates 23. Press Release Voith Turbo GmbH &amp;amp; Co. KG dated 25-8-2014 (return to headlines) &quot;Maro&quot; and &quot;Roma&quot; sailed The oceangoing anchorhandling tugs Roma and Maro today - 21 August, 2014 - sailed Rotterdam for Pointe Noire. The tugs are operated by West African Ventures which earlier this year purchased the tugs from Heerema. Former names are respectively Retriever and Husky. The latter was launched as Triton. The 12.000 bhp - 160 tbp tugs were built in resp 1982 and 1978 (Roma) by Niestern Sander Shipyard, Delfzijl, The Netherlands. When built the tugs measured around 1530 grt. Dimensions 60,45 (oa) / 56,34 x 15,32 x 7,04 m. Draught 6,28 m. The tugs were initially registered under Larina Inc., but later were registered under single-ship companies under the Panmanian flag. (return to headlines) .]]></content>
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		<title>Newbuildings</title>
		<content>Coming shortly, in this section descriptions of newbuild vessels will be found..</content>
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		<title>Tugs In-depth</title>
		<content>This section currently still under construction features lengthy articles on tugs, towage, salvage, offshore and workboats. The Past will highlight historic elements of the towage and salvage industry The Present will concentrate on current issues The Future will have thought on developments which will have an effect on the (near) future of tugs, offshore support, workboats etc..</content>
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		<title>Towage - Salvage - Workboats Today</title>
		<content><![CDATA[Maassluis Tugboat Port by Job van Eijk &amp;ldquo;Maassluis &amp;ndash; Tugboat Port&amp;rdquo; is the title of the latest exhibition by the Dutch National Towage Museum. It will run until 19 October, 2014. But how did Maassluis come to earn that title? On 16 May, 1614, an &amp;lsquo;Act of Separation&amp;rsquo; was signed. This year, the city of Maassluis, The Netherlands, thus will have been on the map for exactly 400 years. The story, however, begins much earlier, in the 1100s. At the time, the entrance to - then - River Merwede was a very wide one, including much of what is now known as the Westland area as well as Europort. In fact, the city of Vlaardingen was the then most western village on the banks of the River Merwede. As the land was lying low and partly tidal, an extensive array of dikes and dams was built to keep what was in fact the North Sea in check. Between 1134 and 1164 a number of large floods devastated part of these works. A dedicated effort was made to remedy this situation and around 1260 a large dike was finally completed closing off the lower lying grounds from high tides. To get rid of excess water waterways were dug which spilled in the river by means of controllable gates. These waterways were dug to the order of the individual villages. No less than 13 such &amp;lsquo;locks&amp;rsquo; were constructed in what was then known as the Maas Dike. The Noordvliet and Zuidvliet were dug by the neighbouring villages of Monster and Wateringen and &amp;ndash; as they were within spitting distance of each other, the gate keepers became the first permanent inhabitants of what was then known as Maeslantsluys (&amp;lsquo;sluys&amp;rsquo; translates as &amp;lsquo;locks&amp;rsquo;). Outside the locks a fishing port developed which brought prosperity due to its supporting industries like shipbuilding, shiprepair, rope-making, etc. Since Maeslantsluys was a part of the village of Maasland &amp;ndash; a farmer&amp;rsquo;s community - all taxes went into the coffers of the latter with little coming back. A campaign was started to become independent which succeeded in 1614. It would take another 250 years for the first tugs to arrive in the port. The reason for this was the fairway from Rotterdam to sea. Around 1740 the shortest way was via the Brielse Maas. The distance to Rotterdam was some 35 kilometers but this fairway was unreliable with constantly shifting bottom and a lot of silting up &amp;ndash; sometimes only 2,5 meter of water was available. Larger ships were forced to take the 95-kilometer route via the Goereesche Gat, Haringvliet, Hollands Diep, Dordtse Kil and Oude Maas. In 1830 King Willem I had the Voornse Canal built which shortened the long route to 40 kilometer. Soon, however, this channel became too narrow. The ships became bigger all the time and the early steamers even had to be routed over 135 kilometer via the Easter Scheldt In order to become more competitive a short and reliable route to the North Sea had to be found. As early as 1739 alternative routes had been thought of but impractical at the time due to construction problems. Finally, a plan by the engineer Pieter Caland was accepted and on 23 March, 1864, the first sand was moved. The plan was to dig a fairway from the Scheur (near Maassluis) through the dunes at the Hook of Holland. This shortened the route to Rotterdam to just 30 kilometers. In September, 1869, the first fishing vessels used the direct route to sea. On 9 March, 1871, the first seagoing steamer &amp;ndash; Richard Young, a Cross-Channel steamer &amp;ndash; sailed the New Rotterdam Waterway. The tugboat era At that time, the Pilotage Service was transferred to the port of Maassluis which was closest to the sea (the port of Hoek van Holland while closer was a small government-owned port intended for work vessels only). Another service-provider to establish itself at Maassluis was the Alblasserdam-based tugboat operator L. Smit &amp;amp; Co. Established in 1842 as the Sleepdienst Fop Smit, their tugs were first stationed in Maassluis in 1869, anticipating demand and strategically locating their tugs midway between Rotterdam and the sea. The first tug to be stationed at Maassluis was their paddle tug Zierikzee. This was the start of Maassluis as a tugboat port. Zierikzee - the first Smit tug operating from Maassluis It had been expected that the Rotterdam Waterway itself would maintain depth in the fairway. This was a miscalculation and dredging was a necessity. It was the invention of the suction hopper dredger that made large-scale dredging possible. In the meantime ships frequently ran aground. The big liner companies therefore stimulated the construction of powerful tugs to assist their ships.]]></content>
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		<title>Towage and Salvage from the Past</title>
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		<title>The Future</title>
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		<title>Tugboat Scrapbook</title>
		<content><![CDATA[Scrapbook A miscellany of subjects on tugs, towage, salvage, offshore and workboats. Tugs on Postcards (1) - &quot;Maas&quot; Hoek van Holland, a work-harbour at the entrace to the Rotterdam Waterway. The harbour has always been home to tugs. Seen in this postcard - probably from the late 1950s - is the L. Smit &amp;amp; Co tug MAAS which was designed especially for the Hoek van Holland salvage station. In 1961 the tug was lengthened by some 3 meters and in addition to her salvage role also became a training vessel mainly for deck crew. Apart from the &#039;big&#039; salvage tug, for many years salvage vessels from Van den Tak (Taks Berging) or Van den Akker were stationed at the port. This had to do with maintenance (and salvage) work for the Ministry of Waterways, the formal owner of the Waterway. Maas was completed in 1954 by J. &amp;amp; K. Smit&#039;s Scheepswerven at Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. Fitted with two Smit-M.A.N main engines totalling 800 bhp on a single shaft. 253 grt - 35,69 (oa) x 7,54 x 3.35 m. Draught 3,07 m. The tug was sold to Luzon Stevedoring Co., Manila, in 1970. She sailed as Trojan for the next 10 years before being scrapped at Manila in 1980. .]]></content>
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		<content><![CDATA[Tugs on Postcards (1) Hoek van Holland, a work-harbour at the entrace to the Rotterdam Waterway. The harbour has always been home to tugs. Seen in this postcard - probably from the late 1950s - is the L. Smit &amp;amp; Co tug MAAS which was designed especially for the Hoek van Holland salvage station. In 1961 the tug was lengthened by some 3 meters and in addition to her salvage role also became a training vessel mainly for deck crew. Apart from the &#039;big&#039; salvage tug, for many years salvage vessels from Van den Tak (Taks Berging) or Van den Akker were stationed at the port. This had to do with maintenance (and salvage) work for the Ministry of Waterways, the formal owner of the Waterway. Maas was completed in 1954 by J. &amp;amp; K. Smit&#039;s Scheepswerven at Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. Fitted with two Smit-M.A.N main engines totalling 800 bhp on a single shaft. 253 grt - 35,69 (oa) x 7,54 x 3.35 m. Draught 3,07 m. The tug was sold to Luzon Stevedoring Co., Manila, in 1970. She sailed as Trojan for the next 10 years before being scrapped at Manila in 1980. .]]></content>
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		<title>The Library</title>
		<content><![CDATA[The Tug, Towage &amp;amp; Salvage Library The following pages are dedicated to publications past and present on our favourite subject. Its sole purpose is to bring interesting publications to the attention of our readers. Do you have interesting titles which may be of interest and are not in the list? Contact us with the details so they can be included. Whenever possible a cover photo is shown.The covers are not to scale. In due course, more information on the publications itself will be listed, along with the development of this site. New publications will be listed on this page. Older publications will be stored on the sub-pages according to the language in which they are written. .]]></content>
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		<title>English Language Publications</title>
		<content>This book traces the history of Alfons Hakans, the well-known Finnish tugboat operator. Included is a full fleetlist.Availability second-hand only. About Merchant Ships of the USSR 1976 - published by Marinart. This little book is compiled by Cmdr Talbooth Booth, founder of the Ship Recognition Corps, and based on his vessel-coding system. Quite a number of tugs are listed. Availability second-hand only. All ships illustrated as side elevations again according to the Talboth-Booth vessel coding system. .</content>
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		<title>Russian Language Publications</title>
		<content>no publications as yet..</content>
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		<title>Photo Corner</title>
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		<title>Towage-related vessels</title>
		<content>Copyright remains with the photographers. .</content>
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		<title>Miscellaneous Photos</title>
		<content><![CDATA[All photo&#039;s that show neither tugs nor towage-related vessels but are interesting in one way or the other. All photos copyright TugDoc / Job van Eijk. .]]></content>
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		<title>Disclaimer</title>
		<content>Disclaimer Information published on this site is believed to be correct. TugDoc International cannot be held responsible for the consequences of use made from this information. Content is copyright of TugDoc International and cannot be used in any form or any media without prior consent by TugDoc International. Illustrations copyright remains with the respective copyright holders and has been arranged prior to publication. TugDoc International has tried to keep this site free of virusses, spyware and other malware. We cannot, however, be held responsible for the consequences of the use of this site. .</content>
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		<title>Nederlands</title>
		<content><![CDATA[Deze site is opgezet in de Engelse taal omdat het een wereldwijd aandachtsgebied betreft. De content zal dan ook in het Engels worden gepresenteerd. De site is eigendom van TugDoc International dat actief is aan de publicitaire kant van de sleepvaart, berging, offshore en werkbotensector. Handelsnamen zijn TDI Maritime Research &amp;amp; Consultancy en TDI Tugboat Publications. Onder Research &amp;amp; Consultancy worden werkzaamheden uitgevoerd bijvoorbeeld op het gebied van marktonderzoek, maar ook op het gebied van publiciteit. Onder Publications wordt zowel op speculatie als op contractbasis gewerkt. Dat kunnen zijn persberichten, maar ook bijvoorbeeld brochure teksten, beschrijvingen van nieuwbouwschepen, bedrijfsgeschiedenis, etc. Onder Headlines vindt men recente nieuwtjes in enkele regels. In de Press Corner vindt men integraal weergegeven persberichten op het vakgebied. Newbuildings bevat beschrijvingen van nieuwbouwschepen. &amp;Iacute;n-Depth bevat uitgebreide teksten over allerlei onderwerpen; dit kunnen ook uitgewerkte verhalen vanuit de Headlines zijn. In Scrapbook vindt men allerlei wetenswaardigheden, bijzondere foto&#039;s, etc. De Library biedt een overzicht van actuele en historische publicaties..]]></content>
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