{"id":10781,"date":"2014-10-10T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2014\/10\/10\/damen-tug-leaves-for-trinidad\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:02:03","slug":"damen-tug-leaves-for-trinidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/products-services-greenport\/damen-tug-leaves-for-trinidad\/","title":{"rendered":"Damen tug leaves for Trinidad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new building contracts with ARC Towage are the result of a joint venture set up to provide towage services for escorting, berthing and un-berthing LNG vessels for a significant energy industry player in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>These new builds have a minimal bollard pull of 60 tonnes and a maximum speed of 12.9 knots. For operation in and around the LNG terminal, they are equipped with rig savers on all engines, which are remote shut-off valves, remote closing air intakes, gas detection systems and exterior explosion-proof lighting.<\/p>\n<p>The first Damen ASD Tug 2810 has now left for Trinidad, while the second vessel will leave in two weeks. Damen says the last two tugs will arrive mid-December this year.<\/p>\n<p>The tugs are being built at Damen Shipyards Galati, Romania, and will be delivered by Damen Services in Trinidad and Tobago before 1 January 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damen Shipyards Group has delivered the first ASD tug 2810 in a four-vessel contract with ARC Towage, which will be used to provide gas terminal berthing services in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-services-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10783,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions\/10783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}