The Portsmouth-based SD Tempest (2017/495gt) was
custom-built in Poland by Serco Maritime Services to
assist movements of the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth
class aircraft carriers at their homeport. The powerful
Damen Advanced Rotortug 80-32 tug incorporates
controllable pitch propellers and has a bollard pull of 80
tonnes. She is the first of her type to operate in the UK.
Dover Harbour Board’s
Russian-built Damen ASD 3110
tugs DHB Dauntless (2000/304gt)
and DHB Doughty (2000/304gt)
assist with the departure of the
refrigerated cargo ship Lady
Korcula (2000/11,443gt) from
Dover’s cargo terminal. The
port’s fruit-handling business will
move across the harbour to new
specialised facilities in the western
docks in 2019, on completion of a
major port development project
now under way. The port of Falmouth is one of the world’s biggest
natural deep-water harbours and home to the largest
ship-repair complex in the UK. Named after a navigable
tributary of the River Fal, Percuil (1968/167gt) is one of
two identical Voith Schneider tractors operated by the
Falmouth Towage Company, which is owned by the A&P
Group, at the Cornish port.
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