New tug for Murmansk oil-tankers
The Kola Bay get its first tug-boat especially designed to support the fleet of oil-tankers sailing in- and out the Kola Bay.
Sovcomflot (SCF) Group’s new tug, Kapitan Avdyukov, had her naming ceremony at the construction yard in Turkey last week and the boat will soon be ready to serve the oil-tanker fleet in Murmansk, writes the web-portal Shipbuilding. Energy.Transport.
The tug-boat is the first in a series of three tugs designed to facilitate the safe operation of tankers in Kola Bay. Two similar tugs of 3660 kW and 2460 kW capacity, Kapitan Popov and Kapitan Reutov, will join the Group’s fleet in July - August 2009.
