Island Raider moved onto blocks.
Strengthening their fleet Island Tug puts work in workboats
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B.C. Tugboat 2020
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ritish Columbia-based Island Tug and Barge (ITB), a subsidiary of Tidewater Canada, has spent the first quarter of 2020 busy utilizing their two new custombuilt articulated tug and barges (ATB), Island Raider and Island Regent, as well as their newly chartered vessel assist and ship escort tug, the Point Valiant.
“The ATBs were built to meet and exceed all regulatory and industry established standards of operation, provide crew comfort and endurance and efficiently and reliably serve our clients and the communities along the B.C. coast,” explains Adrian Samuel, ITB president. “In the past year of service, these new ATBs have surpassed our expectations.” The tugs Island Raider and Island Regent were largely built at ITB’s Annacis Island Shipyard in 2017. When it was time to relocate the tugs in May 2018, ITB worked with Mammoet, Dynamic Heavy Lift and Ironclad Marine, and in order for the tugs to be moved onto the Dynamic Beast, a crane barge that was moored to a temporary set of pilings in the Fraser River, they had to be moved over a below-grade railroad siding,
