The design of a new Carouseltug is born: WorldWise Marine Engineering has prepared a General Arrangement of a small version of the Carousel Combi Tug. This 24 meter Carousel tug will have 35 tonnes static bollard pull and approx. 80 tonnes dynamic pull.. read more.... Updated: October 2008   The third Design Waves is released! In this issue of August 2008: Iskes backs green towage China joint venture takes off AHT orders boom Tidal generator barge  read more.... Updated: September 2008   Iskes backs green towage Jim Iskes is an intriguing mix of the old and the new. His roots go back deep into the towage world. His grandfather was a tug master, his father spent many years working in tugs and harbour craft and he himself spent eighteen years working on tugs before moving ashore to run IJmuiden-based Iskes Towing & Salvage BV. read more.... Updated: September 2008   Offshore Ship Designers restructures: Offshore Ship Designers group has set itself the ambitious target of becoming one of the world’s top three independent ship design companies in the offshore support world. read more.... Updated: September 2008   Nautica Nova Shipyard & Engineering in Penang, Malaysia, is making progress with the construction of two innovative Carousel Combi Tugs (CCT's) for Towing- and Salvagecompany Multraship B.V. The 33.0 x 12.0 x 6.5 meter (length x width x depth) vessels are being constructed simultaneously. This can be seen clearly at the pictures. read more.... Updated: September 2008   RMK Marine Shipyard in Tuzla, Turkey, succesfully delivers the third 60 tonnes BP ASD Tug. The third of four 60 tonne BP tugs for Turkish owners has been delivered from Turkey’s RMK yard. Designed by WorldWise Marine, the vessels T Damla 1 - 4 will enter service at the Izmir and Izmit terminals. read more.... Updated: September 2008   Pacific Ocean Engineering & Trading Pte Ltd in Singapore has signed a contract with WorldWise Marine Engineering for a design of an 80 tonnes bollard pull Azimuth propeller Stern Drive (ASD) Utility Offshore Tug (UOT). The 45.6 x 13.2 x 6.0 meter (length x width x depth) tug is based on the proven UOT II for Svitzer. read more.... Updated: September 2008   Six Primus and Port Said class tugs to be built WorldWise Marine’s successful Primus design for a versatile 100 tonne BP anchor handling tug will be used for a further two tugs to be built at Mützelfeldt werft in Germany for Harms Bergung. A further four of the similar Port Said design will be built at Daewoo-Mangalia Heavy Industries in Romania. read more.... Updated: September 2008   Zero emission tug speeds up! Development work on the design for a near-zero emission hydrogen powered tug has been speeded up with the intention of getting the first vessel into service within two years. Jim Iskes, managing director of Iskes Towage & Salvage, says, "We want to see this tug in operation within two years." read more.... Updated: September 2008   Shanghai joint venture draws on experience Offshore Ship Designers now has a fully functioning design and drawing office in Shanghai. With a staff of ten experienced naval architects and draughtsmen under the leadership of manager Eric Zhang, the new company, Offshore Ship Designers. read more.... Updated: September 2008   RMK Marine Shipyard in Tuzla, Turkey, succesfully launched the 60 tonnes BP ASD Tug T.Damla 3 in October 2007, followed by the T.Damla 1 in December 2007. read more.... Updated: September 2008   Port Said Shipyard in Port Said, Egypt has delivered the Anchor Handling Tug Port Said to the owner, the Suez Canal Autohorities (SCA). Port Said Shipyard has realised this project in cooperation with MAN Ferrostaal AG in Essen, Germany. The results of the sea trials were satisfactory. read more.... Updated: March 2008   Nautica Nova Shipyard & Engineering in Penang, Malaysia, has won the contract for the delivery of two innovative Carousel Combi Tugs (CCT's) for Towing- and Salvagecompany Multraship to operate mainly at the Westerschelde in the Netherlands. read more.... Updated: October 2007   Unithai Shipyard & Engineering Ltd. and Svitzer recently have send us some pictures of the sea trials of the Svitzer Brani. read more.... Updated: October 2007   Towage Flushing - Le Havre Early October the towage of rivervessel "Bonava" departed from Flushing (The Netherlands) to Fos Sur Mer (France). On behalf of the owner of the rivervessel, CFT, WWMB fixed the Swedish tug "Frigga" (26t BP) to perform this towage. read more.... Updated: October 2007   New teammember On October 1st the Brokers will be a 3 person team again. Sander Maurick and Carel Coops are handling towage, charters, transport and s+p activities and additionally Danara Aveeva (26) from the Republic of Kalmykia will start to familiarize herself with these activities, in particular with regard to the Eastern European market. read more.... Updated: September 2007   Qingdao Qianjin Shipyard WorldWise Marine Engineering B.V. has signed a contract with Qingdao Qianjin Shipyard in China in January 2006 for four 75 tonnes bollard pull Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) Utility Offshore Tugs (UOT). The UOT's V to VIII are scheduled to be delivered in 2009. read more.... Updated: March 2008   Unithai Shipyard & Engineering Ltd. in Thailand has delivered the 75ton BP Svitzer Brani (UOT III) and the sister vessel Svitzer Forti (UOT IV) in August 2007. Both vessels are designed by WorldWise Marine Engineering and have the same well-proven hull as the Svitzer Chonburi (UOT II). read more.... Updated: October 2007   Charter Tug and Barge for Mammoet Salvage On behalf of Mammoet Salvage, WorldWise Marine brokers fixed the charter of a barge together with an assisting Tug. The barge was picked up in Norway by the chartered Tug SALUS and brouht to Rotterdam, where the required equipment will be fitted onto the barge. read more.... Updated: July 2007   Towages Netherlands - France During the summer months WWMB is always arranging different towages and transports from Western Europe to France. As for 2007, WWMB already fixed 3 doubletows from The Netherlands to Le Havre and two voyages to Marseille. In most cases WWMB also arranges a roundtrip, which includes towages back from Black sea and Med Sea with direction Western Europe. read more.... Updated: July 2007   Scheepswerf Made The delivery has taken place of the WorldWise Marine Engineering designed hydrographic vessels for the Port of Rotterdam. The christening of the Surveyor 1 has taken place at 11 April 2007 and the christening of the Surveyor 2 has taken place at 8 June 2007. read more.... Updated: June 2007   Towages Netherlands - Med Sea On behalf of a Dutch dredging company, WorldWise Marine arranged several voyages from The Netherlands to Israel, all of them carried out in April and May 2007. The towages were fixed with following tugs; Salus, Luna A and the Dutch Partner. read more.... Updated: June 2007   Towage Shanghai - Netherlands The Suhaili, an ITC tug, safely carried out a double tow, fixed by Worldwise Marine, of two new building hulls (container feeder vessels) from Shanghai to Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The voyage took a total of 73 days via Suez Canal. read more.... Updated: April 2007   WWMB fixed the tow of another unfinished vesselhull, underway from Gorkum to Lemmer This time the tow was entrusted to van der Wees Transporten, using the “En Avant 5”of Muller Zwaar Transport and a pushboats of Van der Wees and the Broedertrouw XVI. The picture was taken our office from the Felison Terminal in Ijmuiden, giving a good view from the 7th floor. read more.... Updated: March 2007   Scheepswerf Made Recently sea trials have started with the  first of two WorldWise Marine Engineering designed hydrographic vessels for the Port of Rotterdam. WWME has prepared a detailed design package for the partly steel and partly aluminum vessels. Especially note the hydraulic sonar protection in the bow read more.... Updated: March 2007   Transport of River Baroness In the weekend of the 17th-18th February 2007 the Rivercruisevessel “River Baroness” of Uniworld has been delivered in Le Havre. The transport was fixed by WorldWise Marine Brokers with Eide Marine Services on their dockvessel Eide Transporter. read more.... Updated: February 2007   Casco MS Hydra Arrived Safely in Harlingen WorldWise Marine Brokers has mediated on the towage of a Czech casco, the Hydra for Wagenborg, from Harlingen to Hamburg. Sunday morning the 4th February 2007 the casco arrived with a push tug from Prague in Hamburg at the Kirchenpauer Kaj. read more.... Updated: February 2007   Offshore Ship Designers creates major new resource: WorldWise Marine Engineering has joined forces with two other established offshore naval architecture and marine engineering companies to provide a major new one-stop resource for oil companies, offshore operators, tug owners, ports and shipyards. Offshore Ship Designers, based in IJmuiden, the Netherlands, bring together the skills, experience, innovation and workforce of naval architects and engineers of Dutch companies Sea of Solutions BV, WorldWise Marine BV and UK-based IMT marine consultants. read more.... Updated: Februari 2007   RMK Marine Shipyard WorldWise Marine Engineering B.V. has signed a contract with RMK Marine Shipyard in Turkey in September 2006 for the delivery of a conceptual design of four 60 tonnes bollard pull Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) Tug. read more.... Updated: September 2008   Unithai Shipyard & Engineering Ltd. has successfully launched the 65 tonnes bollard pull Utility Offshore Tug (UOT) to be delivered by the beginning of 2006. read more.... Updated: March 2006   Ferrostaal The new 100 t BP tug under construction at Port Said Shipyard in Egypt under supervision of Ferrostaal, Germany, has successfully been inclined and is nearing completion. read more.... Updated: December 2005   ASL Shipyard in Singapore has delivered the 55 tonnes bollard pull MultiPurpose Offshore Terminal Tug (MOTT) by the beginning of May 2005. The vessel is named "Uniwise Rayong".  The vessel started working in Thailand. read more.... Updated: December 2005   Latest update: 16 September 2008