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Tambour Towage updates fleet through maintenance
A Denmark-based tug owner has updated its vessels ready for a busy period of barge towing
Tambour Towage has carried out maintenance across its fleet in Q2 and Q3 2025 to prepare its tugs for new charters and project work.
The Danish owner has moved its tugs and support vessels to northern European shipyards for renewals, repairs and maintenance prior to them being mobilised to tow barges around the Baltic and North Sea region.
Its 1974-buit tugboat Nadir is the latest scheduled for slipway work, which will include hull cleaning and antifouling, before it is transferred to Norway for its next assignment. This 27-m, 130-gt tug returned in July to Thyborøn, Denmark, after completing a tow from Norway to Scotland. It has a winch with a bollard pull of 21 tonnes, a MWM Deutz main engine with 749 kW of power, a fixed-pitch propeller, a bow thruster, a service speed of 9 knots, a beam of 8 m and a draught of 4 m.
Tambour said its 1981-built, 142-gt tug Valdemar was in Svendborg in Denmark for a scheduled maintenance stopover, including an overhaul of its Alpha Diesel main engine, which has 749 kW output. This 26-m vessel has a bollard pull of 20 tonnes, a pitched propeller, a bow thruster, a service speed of 10 knots, a beam of 7 m and a draught of 4 m. It has since sailed to Tallinn to pick up a feed barge for delivery in Norway.
Tambour also sent its 1985-built tug Svend to Thyborøn to have its mast repainted before heading to Norway to deliver a newly built feed barge for a client in Hammerfest. This 35-m, 370 gt tug has a service speed of 10 knots, a beam of 10 m, a draught of 5 m, an Ulstein Bergen KVMB-16 main engine, a pitched propeller in a nozzle, and stern and bow thrusters.
After its barge delivery to Hammerfest, Svend sailed to Skagen in northern Denmark for a crew change and provisions before continuing to Norway to collect a barge bound for the Netherlands.
In June and July, 1965-built Loke visited the Agger shipyard for hull cleaning, antifouling, and to modernise its rudder and bow. This 32-gt, 18-m tug has since headed to Vordingborg in Denmark, where it started a new project for Per Aarsleff. It has a beam of 6 m, a draught of around 3 m, a speed of 9 knots, a bollard pull of almost 8 tonnes, a MAN V10 engine, a fixed propeller and a bow thruster.
Tambour has also expanded its warehouse capacity in Thyborøn to supplement its base in Guldborg, “ensuring greater flexibility and strengthened logistics at both ends of Denmark.”
The company said, “Even during hectic periods, we never compromise on maintenance and reliability.
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