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Newbuilds expand Sinarmas' Indonesian fleet
Indonesia-headquartered Sinarmas LDA Maritime is expanding its tugboat and barge fleets with newbuilds delivered and launched in Malaysia
Sinarmas LDA Maritime (SLM) is growing its fleet of tugboats and barges with several delivered in Malaysia from two shipyards.
The Indonesian shipowner and logistics provider, with corporate links with the Louis-Dreyfus family in France, took delivery of the tugboats from Tuong Aik Shipyard in Sibu, Malaysia. It celebrated the delivery of SLM Herakles 5 on 25 September 2025, SLM Herakles 6 and SLM Apollo 3 on 2 October and SLM Apollo 5 and SLM Herakles 5 on 14 October.
Tuong Aik is building six twin-screw tugboats with onboard power of 1,790 kW for SLM. All are due to be completed this year, with the first delivered on 25 June 2025 at the shipyard in Sarawak. In the latest delivery ceremony, SLM Apollo 5 and SLM Herakles 5 were handed over to SLM newbuilding director Thierry Escarabajal by Tuong Aik executive director Simon Lau and on 7 October, SLM took delivery of 100-m barge SLM Thetis 1 at Palma Progress Shipyard.
“The arrival of these new vessels marks another significant step in SLM’s ongoing commitment to enhance the efficiency and reliability of its tugboat fleet within the maritime industry,” said SLM.
Deliveries of SLM Herakles series tugs started in July 2025 and SLM Apollo series tugboats in 2024.
In Q3 2025, SLM ordered a series of azimuth stern drive tugboats from Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard in China for delivery in 2026, with the steel cut on the first of these on 30 July.
Also in Indonesia, Karya Teknik Utama (KTU) Shipyards launched twin-screw tugboat Pegasus 678 using a Cimolai MBH 450 mobile crane at its facilities in Marunda. This is similar to 27-m Pegasus 578, which KTU delivered in August 2025 after its construction to a Robert Allan TRA2700 design, with a beam of 8 m and a hull depth of 4 m.
This preceded the launch in October of four tugboat and barge sets KTU is building for Pelayaran Bahtera Adhiguna, which KTU called an achievement in its shipbuilding. An example of these tugs is 2025-built 27-m Karya Pacific 2280, with a beam of 8 m and a hull depth of 4 m, which was filmed by KTU towing 64-m jetty barge Banyuasin Delta, with a width of 12 m and depth of around 4 m.
Another example of a KTU 2025-built tug is Giat Aktif 2004, which has an overall length of 27 m, twin propellers, a beam of 8 m and a hull depth of 4 m.
In September, KTU delivered 27-m tugboat Sarah 1 and barge Kumala 3001 to Pelayaran Nasional Lautan Kumala at a ceremony in Batam, Indonesia. Sarah 1 has a beam of 8 m, a bollard pull of 26 tonnes and a top speed of 12 knots. Also in September, KTU handed over 27-m tug Zahran 88 and 100-m barge Mahalona 3301 to an unnamed Indonesian owner. And in August, KTU delivered 27-m Emperor 3 tugboat, with a beam of 8 m, and 91-m Dinasti 3003 barge to an unnamed owner.
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