EverWind: Low-emission tugboat fleet ready to serve green fuels hub

EverWind Fuels, a North American developer of a green fuels hub, has received a fleet of three lower-emission tugboats that will support its Point Tupper Green Fuels Project and marine operations across the Strait of Canso, Canada.

EverWind ordered the tugboat fleet from Dutch defense, shipbuilding, and engineering conglomerate Damen in March this year in a move described as “one of the largest private sector investments in the Strait of Canso in the last 50 years”.

The fleet consists of a Damen ASD 3212 tug and two Damen RSD 2513 tugs, measuring 32 meters and 25 meters in length, with 80 tonnes and 65 tonnes of bollard pull, that will replace EverWind’s contracted fleet of three tugboats, which were built between 1992 and 2004.

The company estimates that