Tug Use in Port A Practical Guide, including Ports, Port Approaches and Offshore Terminals

Hensen, Henk

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Polestar Rotterdam, latest edition. Tug Use in Port has been known for over two decades as the tug bibleâ " the essential practical guide to port towage and escort operations. Significant developments in port towage have taken place since then, new tug types have come on to the market and escort tugs have been developed further also with regard to the conditions that these tugs have to cope with. An increasing number of LNG carriers and bulk carriers are being escorted, in addition to tankers; remote controlled and autonomous ships are no longer simply the stuff of science fiction, and will have an eÂffect on tug operations. The fourth edition of Tug Use in Port has been fully revised and updated and now contains information on decision support systems on board tugs, full electric tugs, tug operations in swell, stopping a ship by tugs, new escort and carrousel tugs a.

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• Title: Tug Use in Port A Practical Guide, including Ports, Port Approaches and Offshore Terminals