Sanmar Shipyards recently delivered five vessels in a single week from its extensive catalog of technologically-advanced and environmentally-aware tugs and workboats to operators in Europe and the Americas, including two new first-time customers in Bulgaria, according to the company’s release.
The diverse range of four tugs and a mooring boat, all constructed at Sanmar’s purpose-built state-of-the-art shipyards in Türkiyei has been delivered to SAAM Towage in Panama, MedTug in Rotterdam, Sanmar’s fleet and Bulgarian operators BMF Tug Service and Trans-Port-Lane.
Bogacay XLIII, renamed SAAM QUIBIAN by her new owners is the seventh Sanmar tug delivered to SAAM Towage. 70-tonnes ahead bollard pull (BP) tug is based on the exclusive-to-Sanmar RAmparts 2400SX design from renowned Canada-based naval architects Robert Allan Ltd. She will work in Panama Canal Waters alongside one of her six sister tugs previously delivered to SAAM Towage by Sanmar.
At the same time, Sanmar also delivered the tug SANMAR TERMINAL XXV to MedTug SA, a RAstar 2800 design from Robert Allan Ltd, which had been part of Sanmar’s fleet in Türkiye. She has been renamed MED BELLATRIX and will work in the Port of Rotterdam. She can achieve 75-plus tonnes of bollard pull ahead and is the fifth tug in total that Sanmar has delivered to MedTug SA.
The new-build DELICAY X has joined Sanmar’s fleet operations at Izmit, Türkiye. The ATD tug, which can achieve a BP of 75 tonnes over the stern, is based on the exclusive-to-Sanmar TRAktor-Z 2500SX design from Robert Allan Ltd.
Sanmar also delivered its specialist compact tug GOKCAY II to new client BMF Bulgaria, which was renamed AQUILA 2, she will work in Burgas, the largest port in Bulgaria. The vessel, which can achieve a BP of 16 tonnes, had been in stock at Sanmar’s Altınova Shipyard. Based on the, again exclusive-to-Sanmar, RApport 1600SX Mooring Boat design from Robert Allan Ltd, the Gokcay Class has been designed to address the challenges of modern, line-handling, and smaller ship-handling tugs.
In its other sale to a new customer, Sanmar delivered VECTOR, an 11-m mooring boat from its fleet in Türkiye, to Trans-Port-Lane Bulgaria where she will work in Varna on the Black Sea.
