Med Marine and Turkey’s Asya Port shook hands for a MED-A2360 model tugboat. Having signed the contract on December 31^st, 2019; the vessel’s construction will be completed and she is planned to be delivered to its operator around the beginning of April. The high quality and exclusive tugboat (Hull Name: EREGLI 82) will be named as “ASYAPORT DEĞİRMENALTI” and she will be operated in Tekirdağ, in north-western part of Turkey.

“ASYAPORT DEĞİRMENALTI” is a 23m and 60 TBP ASD tugboat. The design is RAmparts 2300-MM by Robert Allan Ltd. which was exclusively made for Med Marine.

When MED-A2360 series class tugs are compared with other 60t BP designs; they are shorter, more compact and have better manoeuvrability. They are widely preferred for port operations due to their versatile and multi-purpose nature.

Kadir Uzun, Managing Director in Asya Port expressed his gratitude with following words: “We are very pleased with this new cooperation with Med Marine and we can achieve more in future thanks to this sincere and fast partnership. We closely follow and appreciate Med Marine’s world-wide successes with its ever-increasing projects.”

Med Marine is widely experienced in building Ramparts 2300 series as the company built and already delivered 8 units to this design and is currently constructing three more. “ASYAPORT DEĞİRMENALTI”’s two sisters were delivered to Saam Towage in Guatemala and Safeen in UAE in the second half of 2019.

Eylül Turhan, Business Development Chief in Med Marine said that “We are very proud and happy that this class of tug, which we trust to its success and technical qualifications, will be delivered to a Turkish operator. We are flawlessly building 2 more sisters on speculation in our high-quality and large capacity shipyard and getting them ready for delivery.

The tugboat’s general specifications include:

LENGTH O.A.                     23,00 m

BEAM                                   10,90 m

DEPTH                                 4,40 m

BOLLARD PULL                60 tons

SPEED                                 12 knots

MAIN ENGINE                   2 x CAT 3512C 1765 kW @1800rpm

PROPELLER                       RollsRoyce (Kongsberg) US205 FP

FORE TOWING WINCH     THR MARINE (SEC)

GENERATOR SET              2 x CAT C4.4 86 ekW  @ 1500 rpm, 50hz

FIFI E SYSTEM                   1 x 1200 m3/hr. Pump, 2 x Foam/water monitor

ACCOMMODATION           6 people

A virtual reality experience is available on Med Marine’s web page which provides details about the design and tugboat.

(Link to the virtual : https://medmarine.com.tr/tour/med26/index.html)