Damen tug acquired
“Haven Supporter”
Damen had decided to show its new tug series at the Seawork Show held in Southampton in mid-June. But already on the second day of the international show the first Stan Tug 1205 was sold. The 1205 is a further development of the well-known Damen Pushy Cat 1204 and the Stan Tug 1405.
Three of these Stan Tugs had just been completed in Vietnam and arrived in Europe. Four more of the series are under construction at Damen Shipyards Changde in China.
Red7Marine is a relatively new company created just two years ago when a diving company, Anglian Marine and Haven Ports, a civil construction company, decided to join forces.
The new, 9 t bollard pull Stan Tug will have its home port in Harwich and it is likely to be deployed to move the company’s jack-up barges around the UK. Previously, the company would charter in tug capacity but it decided that it was more economical in the longer-term to buy its own vessel.
Red7Marine has several barges and jack-ups that are mostly used in areas that are difficult to access. But there is also quite a surge in offshore wind farm developments off the UK so the new vessel can be used to pull barges carrying equipment out to the wind farms. Meanwhile, Red7Marine’s “Haven Supporter” is on its way to Cornwall in the UK. The vessel will be involved in a project to construct a new pumping station for a sewage plant and it can only be accessed by sea.
