Home Shipbuilding Wilson Sons to restore fleet with 3 brand-new environment-friendly tugboats
November 1, 2024, by Sara Kosmajac
In an effort to restore its existing 80-vessel-strong fleet, Brazilian shipping business Wilson Sons is preparing to start the building of a brand-new series of 3 “very effective” tugboats fitted with environment-friendly innovation.
Wilson Sons will begin constructing 3 brand-new tugboats in 2025. Credit: Wilson Sons
As notified, the brand-new tugboats will be constructed at the business’s shipyard in Guarujá, São Paulo and are slated for shipment dates in November 2025, March and June 2026.
The vessels will apparently have a length of 23 meters and a width of 12 meters, with azimuth propulsion and 70 lots of bollard pull. According to Wilson Sons, these functions will enable the pulls to support 366-meter ‘very containerships’ on docking and undocking maneuvers in Brazil’s primary ports.
Thanks to funds given from the Merchant Navy Fund (FMM), the 3 tugboats are set to include a fire-fighting system, as well, with a capability of 2,400 liters/h. Other components, Wilson Sons has actually revealed, consist of the primary engine with less cylinders and a twin-fin hull style crafted by Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards.
As an outcome, the vessels are predicted to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while, owing to the twin-fin hull, there might be a 14% decrease in the usage of nonrenewable fuel sources.
As described, the brand-new yanks will be certified with the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) TIER III requirement that vouches for the decrease of as much as 70% of nitrogen oxide (NOx), similar to the series of 6 90-ton tugboats provided over the previous structure cycle.
Certified to the requirement were likewise the 4 different pulls– a task that was established by Damen– likewise constructed at the group’s shipyard in Guarujá. The ships were reported to have 80 lots of bollard pull, with a length of 25 meters and a width of 13 meters, with Escort Tug class notation.
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To advise, in an effort to boost its operations and additional help its sustainability efforts, Wilson Sons shook hands with ABB back in May 2023, choosing their Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for ship-to-shore (SIS) gantry cranes at the Rio Grande container terminal, together with a QuayPro module that digitalizes container stowage verification procedures.