Sanmar has delivered a compact RAscal 1500 ASD tug to CCI Bayonne Pays Basque, which manages the Port of Bayonne in France.
Based mostly on the RAscal 1500 design sequence from Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd, Göksu V is 14.95 meters lengthy with a molded breadth of 8.3 meters and a least molded depth and navigational draft of three meters. It might probably obtain 16 tons of bollard pull and a pace of 10 knots.
Göksu V is an ASD tug that has been particularly designed and developed for ship-handling in fashionable, however usually smaller harbor and port operations. The ahead winch additionally serves emergency towing over the strict as a pipe tunnel runs beneath the wheelhouse. With a crew of as much as 4 folks, its tank capacities embody 20 cubic meters of gas oil and a couple of cubic meters of recent water.
For its supply journey, it was loaded onto a heavy-lift vessel at Haydarpaşa port close to Istanbul, Turkiye, for the voyage to the Port of Bayonne, which noticed a 12.2% improve in visitors throughout 2023.
