B.C. Tugboat News
Slow but steady Port of Vancouver reports stable trade despite supply-chain, extreme weather challenges
More container terminal capacity, industrial land required at Canada’s largest port to support long-term resilience of Canada’s core supply chains Provided by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority released its 2021 year-end statistics...
The Association of British Columbia Marine Industries (ABCMI)
is an incorporated not-for-profit society representing the industrial marine sector in Western Canada and specifically, British Columbia. Although the genesis of ABCMI comes from the shipbuilding and ship repair sector, the Association has worked to become much...
Point Hope Maritime in Victoria BC
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...
Island Tug and Barge – A Strong Culture of Innovation and Commitment
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...
Covenants to Insure
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...
Med Marine Delivers Second MED-A2885 RAstar 2800 Series Tugboats to Global Towage Leader Svitzer for Their Suez Canal Fleet
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...
Slow but steady Port of Vancouver reports stable trade despite supply-chain, extreme weather challenges
More container terminal capacity, industrial land required at Canada’s largest port to support long-term resilience of Canada’s core supply chains Provided by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority released its 2021 year-end statistics...
The Association of British Columbia Marine Industries (ABCMI)
is an incorporated not-for-profit society representing the industrial marine sector in Western Canada and specifically, British Columbia. Although the genesis of ABCMI comes from the shipbuilding and ship repair sector, the Association has worked to become much...
Point Hope Maritime in Victoria BC
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...
Island Tug and Barge – A Strong Culture of Innovation and Commitment
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...
Covenants to Insure
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...
Med Marine Delivers Second MED-A2885 RAstar 2800 Series Tugboats to Global Towage Leader Svitzer for Their Suez Canal Fleet
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...
