US operator Crowley has taken delivery of a new chartered tug, which will assist ships and provide escorts in the California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.<\/p>\n
The company announced on October 13 that the 82-foot (25-metre) Venture was built by Diversified Marine on the Columbia River. The US-built tug is Jones Act compliant.<\/p>\n
Venture is powered by twin Caterpillar 3516 EPA Tier IV-compliant engines with a combined output of more than 6,000 hp (4,474 kW), driving azimuth stern drive (ASD) thrusters. Crowley said the tug can achieve a bollard pull of up to 95 tons.<\/p>\n
The vessel will support the transit, docking and undocking of cargo ships in the San Pedro Bay port complex, where Crowley’s ship assist fleet operates.<\/p>\n
Venture joins sister Tier IV tugs Athena, Apollo, Hercules and Artemis in Crowley’s west coast fleet, all of which were also built by Diversified Marine. Hercules<\/a> and Athena<\/a> were initially assigned to Puget Sound, while Apollo<\/a> entered service in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US operator Crowley has taken delivery of a new chartered tug, which will assist ships and provide escorts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[194191,194192,131,133,132,434,435],"class_list":["post-501313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-crowley-maritime-corporation","tag-diversified-marine","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-north-america","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}