However, bilge maintenance isn't the only reason they spray water. Tug boats are not just the tow trucks of the sea; they are also the firefighters when needed. Some tug boats are built specially ...

The latest boat from the Sause Bros. Ocean Towing Co. is rated at 1,200 miles per gallon per ton of cargo. Ten years ago, say company officials, tugs were rated at 514 mpgpt. The tugs are used to ...

11 (UPI) --German maritime authorities said Saturday they are towing a disabled oil tanker in the Baltic Sea thought to be ... media it is employing three tug boats to the tow the stricken tanker ...

An unusually large flotilla of merchant vessels has backed up near Yemen’s Ras Isa port in the Red Sea ... Several tugs were heavily damaged as a result of attacks by the Israel Defense Forces in late ...

German rescue teams have managed to secure towing lines to a loaded oil tanker that lost the ability to manoeuvre in the Baltic Sea near the ... by the emergency tug boat Bremen Fighter, according ...

The Indonesian Navy is targeting to dismantle a 5-kilometer sea fence on the coast of Tanjung Pasir Beach, Tangerang, Banten, ...