BOGAZICI A.S. of Turkey have recently delivered Amapola 1, the first Robert Allan Ltd. designed RAstar 3000 tug, to International Offshore Engineering and Development Company, Panama for PDVSA of Venezuela.
This new design rounds out the RAstar family of Terminal/Escort tugs, which to date encompasses lengths from 27m to 39m, and bollard pulls of up 120 tonnes.
The RAstar Class are a series of high performance ASD terminal support tug designs developed for berthing and unberthing large ships, particularly tankers, at exposed terminals.
They provide a high standard of tanker escort capability, emergency response, fire-fighting and oil recovery capabilities in the vicinity of oil and LNG terminals, and in sensitive environments.
RAstar tugs incorporate a unique sponsoned hull form, which has been proven in both model and full-scale testing to provide significantly enhanced escort towing and seakeeping performance. Motions and accelerations are less than half those of comparable sized standard tug hulls.
[mappress] June 6, 2014