Panama Tugs 6
With all the dredging in the Canal, you’d expect spoils hopper barges, and sure enough, we met several. Cazalla is a 2012 product of SIMA Peru, Chimbote shipyard. Barge 852 pushed by Gorgona I, which I believe is an older boat. But I’ve been unable to find any information on her age or provenance. Culebra […]
Panama Tugs 5
The sequence now has been US-built pre-2000, Canadian right after 2000, then Chinese with Wärtsiläs, then Chinese with GEs. Also, bollard pull had gone from 32 to 54 to 61. The next order of tugs went to Armon Astillero (shipyard) in Spain, the shipyard that launched all the tugs in this post. Cerro Jefe, like the […]
Panama Tugs 4
Rio Indio could have been grouped with yesterday’s post because it’s a Z-Tech 6000: ASD with 4826 hp Wärtsilä engines with azimuthing 7.8′ propellers in Kort nozzles, generating 61 tons of bollard pull. I include it here for contrast with the rest of the boats in this post. Calovebora came out the next year (2010) […]
Panama Tugs 3
After the US and Canadian newbuild orders, ACP began an order of Z-tech 6000s from China, Cheoy Lee and Hin Lee Shipyards. The first three to arrive in Panama were Veraguas 1, Bocas del Toro, and Darién. Compared with the Canadian boats, these were shorter, wider, and more powerful. Compared with other Z-Tech 6000s, they […]
Panama Tugs 2
Before 2000, the Canal was operated by the Panama Canal Commission; beginning on January 1, 2000 (Y2K), the Commission was replaced by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP). It appears the first tugs purchased by the ACP were from Canada, specifically from Irving Shipbuilding. One was Colón. It arrived in Panama in late 2001. We […]
Panama Tugs 1
Recent tugboat building contracts at the Canal have gone to Chinese and Spanish shipyards. What I did was look at all the (ACP or Panama Canal Authority) tugboat photos I took–and only those–and classify them by age and provenance. The photos below were the US built tugs I saw, all three built before 2000. Guia, […]
Other Peoples Photos 107
The first time I used this title, although with a pretentious spelling, was here, more than 12 years ago, a collaboration I immediately liked. This year I’ve posted quite a few, especially in the first three months of 2022, all related to the Barge Canal. Here’s one I’ve not posted. I wish more text existed […]
Old Year 2018
I’ve mentioned before about my people the Dutch celebrating “old years day” on December 31. As the child of immigrants, I’m blessed by this one of many ways they see the world differently, a perspective I’m happy to share. So here is a retrospective of the year, the result of a process of scanning […]
Random Ships 99
It’s been months since I used this title, so let me play some catch-up. with a RORO and an ULCV. The RORO RCC Africa is the oldest vessel in this post, launched 2004. Its dimensions are 656′ x 105′ and at this moment it’s heading from the east to the west side of South American […]
Retro Sixth Boro 47
Wow! It’s time to flip the calendar to March 2022 already; that means flashing back to March 2012. A photo of Bow Chain on the KVK seems a good place to start, for reasons apparent at the end of this post. Since these “retro” posts highlight what’s no more to be seen, this is a […]
tugster: a waterblog 