By Riccardo Regosa, General Manager Tugs are the unsung heroes of the marine transportation highway pushing and pulling barges up and down the pacific coast from Santiago to Alaska to Hawaii, and everything in between battling weather and powering the blue economy and...

A subsidiary of Tidewater Canada, the ITB Marine Group leverages its revenue streams across two core businesses: Island Tug and Barge (ITB) and ITB Subsea (previously highlighted in BC Tugboat’s Fall 2021 issue).  ITB’s primary business is the distribution of refined...

By Eliza Lynn Brown, Associate Lawyer at Bernard LLP If something goes wrong on your tug and tow operation and your customer’s barge or vessel gets damaged, do you have to pay up? If you have the right wording in your contract, you can know the answer to that question...

On June 07, Med Marine delivered the second MED-A2885, named SVITZER SUEZ 3, of the two new buildings. Both vessels are Robert Allan Ltd-design RAstar 2800 tugs with firefighting and escort notations. This is a state of the art tug boat with full escort capability and...

Canada’s busiest cruise port of call welcomes Holland America Koningsdam Holland America Koningsdam arrived at the Victoria Cruise Terminal at the Breakwater District in early April, becoming the first ship to call to a Canadian port since October 2019. Industry...

In Berlin's Westhafen, the Mayor of Berlin Franziska Giffey named the push boat ELEKTRA! After almost two years of construction at shipyard Hermann Barthel GmbH in Derben and the transfer to the Westhafen in Berlin, the long-term testing of this unique, innovative and...