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14 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • MAY 2014

KOC’s New Damen Tug

The Kuwait Oil Company’s (KOC) new

ASD Tug 3212 was launched at Damen

Shipyards Galati, Romania. The contract consists of two vessel types, comprising nine units based on the Damen ASD 3212 model, providing 80t bollard pull, and fi ve examples of the ASD 2810 design, providing 50t bollard pull. The new tugs will assist tankers at near shore loading terminals and at the new single point moorings further offshore.

As such, they will also be equipped with

FiFi systems.

Trafuco 7 for

Total Lubmarine

Total Lubmarine named the new- est addition to its fl eet, Trafuco 7 at a ceremony at The Port of Antwerp.

Trafuco 7 is a 795 cu. m. capacity barge divided into six compartments that will transport oils, system oils and trunk piston engine oils, including the Talusia,

Aurelia, Atlanta and Disola ranges, with a minimum order of 2,000 liters per grade. The vessel will serve The

Port of Antwerp, and will be operated using Total Lubmarine’s Bioneptan and

Biomultis biolubricants for the stern tube, bow thruster and deck equipment, while voluntarily adhering to the port’s

Environmental Ship Index (ESI) scheme.

NEW & NOTABLE

NEWS - VESSELS

B

MT Nigel Gee (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT

Group, and Ares Shipyard announced that the fi rst two boats of a series of eight luxury passenger ferries destined for Qatar, have been completed and de- livered to the customer. BMT worked with Ares Shipyard to produce an innovative design with attention to ease of construction. This has allowed the fi rst two vessels to be delivered to the customer less than seven months after ini- tial discussions on the project. The remaining six vessels will be delivered over the next four months with four cur- rently in the building stage. The new boats are designed to transport guests to the new Anantara Doha Island Resort & Spa, 11km east of Doha. At 18m long with a beam of 6.7m, the composite catamaran design can carry up to 51 passengers. The vessel is capable of a maximum speed of 29 knots, and a service speed of 22 knots meaning that a typical passage from Doha to the resort will be in the region of 16 minutes.

Luxury Passenger Ferry

Image cour tesy BMT

R obert Allan said that Keppel Singmarine

Brasil Ltda. (KSMB), of Navegantes, Bra- zil completed construction of the 24m SMIT

Pareci, the second of a series of six Robert Allan de- signed RAmparts 2500 tugs, for SMIT Rebocadores do Brasil (Rebras), of Rio de Janeiro. Robert Allan

Ltd. worked with SMIT Rebras to develop this latest series, with signifi cant changes including new en- gines complying with the latest IMO emissions stan- dards, a new double drum towing winch and staple, a larger wheelhouse, a new streamlined skeg. Pow- ered by a pair of CAT 3512C HD high-speed engines (1,379 kW @ 1600 rpm), this power is transmitted via a straight line shafting system to a pair of Schot- tel SRP 1012 fi xed pitch azimuthing thrusters with 2100 mm diameter propellers in nozzles.

Brazil Yard Delivers RAmparts Tug

Photo: Rober t Allan Ltd.

Pho t o: Damen

Pho t o: T o tal L ubmarine

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