Fairplay names new Spanish-built tug

Hamburg-based company Fairplay Towage has named its latest tug new building ‘Fairplay 30’.

The new vessel was built by the Spanish yard Astilleros Armon in Navia. With an overall length of 39 metres and a beam of 13 metres, ‘Fairplay 30’ and her sister ‘Fairplay 31’, presently under construction, will primarily trade in European waters. However these two tugs have no trading limitations and can work anywhere in the world. Two twelve-cylinder ABC engines, each rated 2,652kW at 1,000rpm generate the power for two fixed-propellers Schottel SRP2020 rudder-propellers, producing a bollard pull of more than 85 tonnes and a free-running speed of 14 knots. Two Volvo six-cylinder-diesel-engines (Type D12D-A MG) with a power output of each 310kW generate the required on-board electricity. The emergency generator set is a Volvo six-cylinder (D7A-A) with a power output 116kW. Fairplay has ordered two further tugs with Armon. Delivery is scheduled for summer and winter 2009. These tugs will provide a bollard pull of over 70 tonnes and will primarily be employed in European ports.
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