HaiSea Marine has confirmed it is expanding its fleet in British Columbia, Canada, by ordering new tugboats from two shipbuilders.

This joint venture that is majority-owned by the Haisla Nation in partnership with Seaspan ULC, signed these contracts during Riviera’s 28th ITS Convention in Gothenburg, Sweden, in May 2026.

HaiSea Marine has ordered a 40-m escort tug with a bollard pull of up to 100 tonnes from Turkey-headquartered Sanmar Shipyards.

This 997-gt vessel will be built to Canada’s Robert Allan Ltd’s RAstar 4000 design with twin four-stroke diesel main engines, a beam of 16 m, and a navigational draught of 7 m.

It will have a full speed of 14.5 knots, capacity to store 357 m3 of diesel, maximum accommodation for nine workers, but a regular complement of six or seven crew members.

HaiSea also awarded a contract to Damen Shipyards to build two azimuth stern drive (ASD) tugs to support LNG carriers docking at a terminal in western Canada.

Damen Song Cam Shipyard will build these 388-gt tugboats to its ASD 2813 design and with a bollard pull of up to 70 tonnes and twin four-stroke diesel engines in Vietnam.

These 28-m tugs will have a beam of 13 m, a draught of nearly 4 m, capacity to store 89.2 m3 of diesel, accommodation for 10 people, a FiFi1-class firefighting system and a package for operations during winter conditions.

HaiSea Marine currently provides ship-assist and escort towing services to LNG carriers under a contract with LNG Canada in Kitimat, British Columbia.

The five tugs, all designed by Robert Allan, include three fully electric ElectRA 2800SX tugs and two dual-fuel LNG-powered RAstar 4000DF tugs.

The 40-m RAstar 4000-DF escort tugs have approximately 100 tonnes of bollard pull, making them some of the most powerful of their type in Canada.

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