PSA Marine orders hybrid harbour tug for South American towage

PSA Marine wanted the additional mechanical-hybrid solution to lower emissions from this tugboat when it is in transit and operating its fire-fighting systems.

“In PSA Marine Peru, we are constantly on a lookout for sustainability-focused innovations,” said PSA Marine Peru senior fleet manager William Revilla. “With reduced emissions, the forward-looking solution from Schottel allows us to operate our vessel more efficiently and sustainably,” he said.

Schottel’s Sydrive-M connects the port and starboard-mounted azimuth thrusters on the tug, enabling them to be driven together by only one main engine. In turn, this leads to reduced operating hours of the main engines, resulting in lower maintenance costs, less fuel consumption and lower emissions.

Sydrive-M needs no additional electronical components and has many advantages in the three main operation modes – light operations or free sailing mode, full-thrust operation mode and fire-fighting mode.

Schottel said it will also include the LeaCon certified sealing system on these SRP 460 drives, which offers safe and reliable protection against contamination of the seawater by operating materials.

Schottel has supplied propulsion units to more than 100 vessels built by Cheoy Lee at its main production facility, the Hin Lee (Zhuhai) Shipyard, located in southern China.

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