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Svitzer orders four new tugs to the Turk Sanmar Shipyards
They will be employed in according to container the terminal that will be managed by APM Terminals in the port of Tanger Med
May 23, 2017
Svitzer, the company of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk that takes care of activity of harbor tug and service to the ships with a fleet of beyond 430 boats, has ordered to the shipbuilding society Turkish Sanmar Shipyards the construction of four tugs that will be taken in delivery in the autumn of 2018 and will be used in the new container terminal that the APM Terminals, the terminalista society of the Danish shipowning group, will manage in the Moroccan port of Tanger Med. The terminal, that it is currently in phase of construction in the harbour area Tanger Med II, will become operating at the beginning of 2019 and will be the second managed in the port of call African from the APM Terminals ( on 31 March 2016).
The four new tugs, with an ability to shooting of 90 tons, are planned by the Robert Allan Ltd Canadian. and they will join to the 15 tugs that the Svitzer has commissioned in the past to the Sanmar Shipyards.
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