China: Panyu Shipyard Delivers Twin Screw Tug NEPTUN 11

After a relatively long building period and an intensive quality-control the Panyu Shipyard in Guangzhou, China, has delivered the brandnew twin screw tug “NEPTUN 11″ to her new owners Landfall Transport & Towage and Neptune Marine Services.

With a length of 36 metres and a bollard pull of 42 tons, the “Neptun 11″ is in fact a sistership of the “Neptun 9″ and she will commence her “maiden voyage” in the course of next week with a double to of two crane barges from Hong Kong to Borneo in the Indonesian archipel.The further sailing plan is not known yet, but after arrival in Holland, the “Neptun 11″ will be equipped with a 170/ton metre hydraulic deckcrane, for which the pedestal is already integrated in the present ship’s construction.

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Source: landfall, July 29, 2011;