Cheoy Lee Shipyards has completed harbour and escort tugs for several international clients over the past three months
The Hong Kong-headquartered shipbuilder delivered tugs to owners in Africa, New Zealand and the Pacific, while passing a key production milestone on tugs for a domestic owner.
Its latest completions are two 492-gt tugs destined to assist tankers in an export terminal in east Africa. Cheoy Lee’s Hin Lee shipyard in Zhuhai, China built Chongoleani and Tanga Mpya to Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) RAmparts 3200-CL. Both 32-m tugboats, part of a four-vessel construction order Cheoy Lee is implementing for the Tanzanian port authority, are being sailed by Redwise from China to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania where they will assist ships at an oil export port.
According to automatic identification system (AIS) data, both tugs, each with a beam of 12 m, had a stopover at Vung Tau, Vietnam 30 June for fuel and supplies before their voyage across the Indian Ocean.
In the port of Chongoleani, a new tanker terminal has been constructed as the terminus of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. This 1,445-km pipeline transports crude oil from Hoima in Uganda to Chongoleani in Tanga region.
Cheoy Lee and Redwise also delivered Maki and Ika Nui tugs to Eastland Port in Gisborne, New Zealand. These azimuth stern drive tugs were built to RAmparts 2100-CL design and Lloyd’s Register class, with a bollard pull of 50 tonnes and a running speed of 12 knots.
Cheoy Lee also completed Sa’ula-60 at the Hin Lee Shipyard for Samoa Port Authority. This RAmparts 2500-CL design tug was also sailed by Redwise from Zhuhai to Apia, Western Samoa.
At Hin Lee, the keel of the first of two tugs Cheoy Lee is building for Hongkong United Dockyards was laid 8 August. These will be dual-fuel tugs able to escort and assist LNG carriers into a new offshore import terminal in Hong Kong.
Cheoy Lee is also building two 42-m tugs to RAL’s RAstar 4200-DF design to serve as standby vessels at the offshore LNG terminal and it completed a fleet of five 17-m, self-righting pilot boats designed by Camarc Design.
