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SAAM Towage has ordered a second tug from Chilean yard ASENAV, adding to a vessel it already commissioned earlier this year. The new unit is a 32-metre Robert Allan RAstar 3200W design with more than 80 tonnes of bollard pull and IMO Tier III emissions controls.
ASMAR and ASENAV handed over two landing barges for the Armada de Chile’s Proyecto Escotillón IV on 6 May in Valdivia. The steel barges are 19.78 metres long, 5.6 metres wide and draw 1.1 metres, and can carry a crew of three and loads of up to 30 tonnes.
ASENAV moved the 94-metre Magellan Discoverer through the Calle Calle river in Valdivia before the hybrid-electric cruise ship’s open-water trials. The vessel, built for Antarctica21, required the Cau Cau Bridge to be raised to at least 30 degrees for the crossing.
ASENAV has signed its first shipbuilding contract with SAAM for a next-generation tug to be built in Valdivia, Chile. The RAstar 3200-W vessel is due to join SAAM’s Canadian fleet in the first half of 2027 after about 15 months of construction.