One of three tugs assisting inbound ENERGY CENTURION (IMO9387970).

Equasis data:
Yr build:2018
MMSI:316014107
Call Sign: CFA2897
Ship Mgr: TOSS Ship Delivery-Rotterdam
Reg Owner: SAAM Towage Canada Inc.-Vancouver

www.saam.com/en/remolcadores/canada/

One of Two new Cheoy Lee (Hong Kong Shipyards) Rastar 3200 escort tugs for SAAM SMIT Towing (SST).


Following from Robert Allan Ltd website (Naval Architects and Marine Engineers)….
www.ral.ca

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Robert Allan Ltd. is very pleased to announce that SAAM SMIT TOWAGE CANADA Inc. (SST Canada), a joint venture partnership between Boskalis of the Netherlands and SAAM S.A of Chile, has recently completed the purchase of two new RAstar 3200 escort tugs from Hong Kong’s Cheoy Lee Shipyards. SST Grizzly and SST Orca are due to depart Cheoy Lee’s Hin Lee shipyard next week, with arrival in Vancouver in early November of this year. Upon arrival, these two new escort-rated tugs will join SST Canada’s fleet and begin operations in the southern waters of British Columbia.
These state-of-the-art tugs will be capable of safely performing all ship-handling roles, including berthing, unberthing, and escort duties, and will considerably increase the ability of the local tug fleet to handle anticipated increases in vessel traffic through British Columbia’s southern waters, especially in the context of escort towing.
These new tugs will become both the largest and most powerful escort-rated tugs in the region, with bollard pulls in excess of 80 tonnes, and the ability to generate high indirect escort forces at speeds of up to 10 knots, namely 82 tonnes in steering, and 130 tonnes in braking. Complementing these impressive escort performance capabilities will be an equally capable double (split) drum 200 kW electric escort towing winch by Ibercisa with an active haul-in and pay-out constant tension system, as well as data logging for aiding with timing of replacement of the 72 mm (3”) diameter Amsteel Blue synthetic towlines.
The tugs are also both equipped with Ibercisa electric towing winches aft, spooled with 600 metres of 54 mm (2-1/8”) diameter 6×36 IWRC steel wire rope towline, thus boosting the capacity of the local tug fleet to rescue vessels and tow them to safety should they become disabled beyond where they would typically be actively assisted by escort tugs.
Specialized fendering systems designed to minimize contact pressures, along with folding masts both act to keep the risk of any steel-to-steel contact with assisted vessels with high flare to a minimum, while also assisting these vessels into terminals as gently as possible. A Fi-Fi 1 standard external fire-fighting system with waterspray and a 16 m3 foam tank, also makes these tugs very useful for terminal standby roles.
Other principal particulars of the new RAstar 3200s include:
Length, overall: 32.0 m
Beam moulded: 12.8 m
Depth, least moulded: 5.4 m
Draft, navigational: < 6.0 m
Tonnage, gross registered: 492 GRT
Speed: 13.5 knots

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