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Here are some previous posts with photos from Jan.
So here’s the tugboat, just out of the shipyard near the Arctic Circle and at work, the last in a series of five identical anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels bringing more than 23000 hp to the job. This job starts in the Princess Arianehaven.
And what’s the tow?
And how many tugs does it take? Here’s Maker assisted by Mutratug 32, quite interesting in her own right as a Carrousel RAVE tug. Click here for more.
But I digress. Maersk Resilient (2008) is moving out to the Stella Oil/Gas Field with this assistance. The additional tugs are Multratug 5 and FairPlay 27 and 28.
And here Bugsier 3 intrudes on the scene.
All photos taken last weekend by Jan Oosterboer and delivered via Jan van der Doe.
You also have one more day to name the port and guess the date in yesterday’s post.
On a windy day recently in the Beerkanaal section greater Rotterdam harbor, Jan Oosterboer took these photos, passed along by Jan van der Doe.
The small boats here are operated by the KRVE, self-translated as “rowers” but more likely we’d call them linesmen. The more distant KRVE boat is alongside Smit Cheetah. The link that follow are mostly for previous instances these boats have appeared on this blog.
Here’s their own site in English.
Multratug 31
In the distance newly-launched LNG carrier Vladimir Rusanov, shuttling between Rotterdam and Russian Kara Sea port of Sabetta. I had to look up Sabetta, since I’d not heard of it: average annual temperature is 14 degrees F, -10 C
Above and below, that’s Smit Hudson.
Iskes tug Venus is about three years old.
Above and below FairPlay X,
which has not been on this blog before. Multratug 5 shows her Japanese origins,
here with Beagle, new this spring.
Many thanks to Jan and Jan for these photos. Any errors in text are mine.
All these photos were taken last weekend in the port of Rotterdam by Jan Oosterboer and used via Fred Trooster. Notice their size:
MSC Regulus . . . 1200′ x 156”
Margrethe Maersk, here tailed by SD Shark, at 1309′ x 196′ . . .
a Maersk Triple E class container vessel, capacity of 18,000 teu’s, and
in service about three months now.
CSCL Atlantic Ocean, 19,100 teu capacity, 1312′ x 190,’ and on her maiden voyage from Asia.
And finally, Berge Stahl, nearly 30 years afloat, 364, 767 tones DWT. Her dimensions are only 1122′ loa and 206′ beam.
And why are ships getting bigger, other than because they can, and the population is growing? Well, we need more stuff. Compare these family photos of household and possessions.
Many thanks to Jan and Fred for these photos.
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