{"id":6214,"date":"2025-03-16T20:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2025-03-16T20:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T20:02:31","slug":"first-fully-electric-tug-for-latin-america-completes-sea-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=6214","title":{"rendered":"First fully-electric tug for Latin America completes sea trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    First fully-electric tug for Latin America completes sea trials<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Sanmar Shipyard has successfully completed sea trials of what will be be the third fully-electric tug it has built for South American based towing giant SAAM Towage.<\/p>\n<p>It is based on the exclusive-to-Sanmar <a href=\"https:\/\/ral.ca\/2021\/05\/31\/introducing-the-electra-series\/\">ElectRA 2500SX design<\/a> from Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-wp-embed is-provider-marine-log wp-block-embed-marine-log\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"oHTVRZKslW\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/inland-coastal\/coastal\/saam-towage-canadas-electric-twins-go-to-work-in-vancouver\/\">SAAM Towage Canada\u2019s electric twins go to work in Vancouver<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"\u201cSAAM Towage Canada\u2019s electric twins go to work in Vancouver\u201d \u2014 Marine Log\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/inland-coastal\/coastal\/saam-towage-canadas-electric-twins-go-to-work-in-vancouver\/embed\/#?secret=gw2aO7UQYR#?secret=oHTVRZKslW\" data-secret=\"oHTVRZKslW\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The largest provider of towage services in the Americas, SAAM Towage already operates two emissions-free ElectRAs \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/inland-coastal\/coastal\/saam-towage-canadas-electric-twins-go-to-work-in-vancouver\/\"><em>SAAM Volta <\/em>and <em>Chief Dan Georg<\/em><\/a>e \u2013 on the west coast of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming those first two ElectRAs to the SAAM Towage fleet, the company\u2019s sustainability and development director, Pablo C\u00e1ceres, said: \u201cElectric-powered tugs represent the way to advance towards more sustainable development and move our business into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This latest tug will become the first fully electric tug to operate in Latin America, and the eighth built by Sanmar.<\/p>\n<p>With an overall length of 25.4 meters, beam of 12.86 meters, draft of 5.6 meters, and maximum battery capacity of 3,616 kWh, it can achieve a bollard pull of at least 70 tonnes, and a speed of 12.5 knots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was extremely important when we were developing the ElectRA Series with our partners Robert Allan Ltd and Corvus Energy, that the move to electricity and other alternative fuels should not come with any loss of power or performance,\u201d said R\u00fc\u00e7han \u00c7\u0131vg\u0131n, commercial director of Sanmar Shipyards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/first-fully-electric-tug-for-latin-america-completes-sea-trials\/\">First fully-electric tug for Latin America completes sea trials<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/\">Marine Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Marine Log Staff<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/first-fully-electric-tug-for-latin-america-completes-sea-trials\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=first-fully-electric-tug-for-latin-america-completes-sea-trials\">Go to marinelog<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First fully-electric tug for Latin America completes sea trials Turkey\u2019s Sanmar Shipyard has successfully completed sea trials of what will be be the third fully-electric tug it has built for South American based towing giant SAAM Towage. 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