AVRA Towage Adds to Fleet
Cummins Vessel Reference #597
With the July delivery of the tug Northwind, the Rotterdam-based firm Avra Towage is now operating a fleet of six tugs with a seventh under construction. Three of the Company’s original five-boat fleet have Cummins main engines, so it was an easy choice to go with Cummins engines for the Northwind. However, where the others have 2400 HP and 32 tons of bollard pull with a pair of 38-litre Cummins main engines (tugs South, West, and East), the new boats are powered by a pair of the larger 50-liter Cummins KTA50-M engines. These generate a total of 3200 HP to give the boats bollard pulls of 43 tons.
Full specifications and additional photos for the Northwind, built in Sibu East Malaysia, are available from alan@haig-brown.com.
For further information:
Avra Towage BV
Scheepmakershaven 32b
3011 VB Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: 31 10 281 0886
E-mail: chartering@avra.nl
Tan Ju Lin
Commercial Manager Asia
Avra Towage Singapore Pte Ltd.
12A Jalan Samulun
Singapore 629131
Phone: 65 6264 6829
Alan Haig-Brown
Over 30 years as an author for global commercial marine and fishing publications backed with hands-on experience on commercial fishing boats and coastal freighters makes Alan Haig-Brown uniquely qualified to provide vessel reference articles for Cummins Marine. You can find him in shipyards around the world, and on his own website, www.haig-brown.com.
