Nippon Salvage is to upgrade its fleet with a newbuilding order for an ocean-going salvage tug at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding.
The vessel is a direct replacement for the 2,000-gt Koyo Maru (built 1998). It is intended to meet higher environmental standards and increase salvage capacity to cope with the increase in ship size.
The salvage tug will be built at Mitsubishi’s Shimonoseki shipyard and delivered in the latter half of 2024.
