Tight squeeze canal tow for cruise ship section

摘要

ROTTERDAM-BASED KOTUG and Hamburg-based Bugsier Reederei have played a key role in the towing of the first of two engine room sections through the Kiel canal locks with a gap of just centimetres each side. The sections are pre-fabricated modules for the new cruise ship Aidanova and need to be transferred from Neptun Werft in Rostock to Meyer Werft's shipyard in Papenburg via the Kiel canal. Kotug's Rotortug RT Pioneer was allocated for the tow with Bugsier's Rotortug Bugsier 6 assisting as stern tug.