{"id":396,"date":"2015-12-02T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=396"},"modified":"2015-12-02T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T13:45:00","slug":"new-navy-tugs-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"New Navy Tugs – Charter?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Navy went looking to Purchase 4 new Large tugs<\/a> to replace the Glen and Fire Class Boats in 2012. That procurement hasn’t gone anywhere, and the government is now looking at the price and availability  to charter tugs for 5 years, with options on renewal for up to 20 additional years. They are looking at four tugs; Two for the East Coast; and Two for the West Coast.<\/p>\n

The Stated requirements are: <\/p>\n

\u2022Twin engine\/propulsion plant capable of delivering an approximate bollard pull of  40 tons or an equivalent total power of 4,000 BHP;
\u2022Firefighting capability (FiFi 1);
\u2022Full speed of at least 12 knots (fully loaded);
\u2022Draft not to exceed 6 meters;
\u2022Vessels not to exceed 5 years of age at the start of the contract.
\u2022Preferred length overall not to exceed 33 metres;
\u2022The vessels will be operated by a civilian crew holding Transport Canada certification;
\u2022The tugs must have a Transport Canada Certificate of Registration;
\u2022The vessels must meet regulatory requirements to operate in Canada and be in full compliance with the Canada Shipping Act; and
\u2022Daily in harbour operations consisting of hot or cold moves of existing and future warships up to 25,000 tons displacement;
\u2022Assisting in closing harbour gates, delivering supplies or fresh water, buoy operations and other routine harbour tasks<\/p>\n

Interestingly, they are looking at both Bareboat Charter, or as a Time Charter. In a bareboat charter, the Navy would crew the vessels and only pay for using the Hardware (Much like leasing a car) the other option would be to provide a fully crewed tug, available on 15 min notice for an hourly rate. this is very much the arrangement commercial shippers use when they pay for tug services. The difference is that the tugs would be dedicated to navy use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Navy went looking to Purchase 4 new Large tugs to replace the Glen and Fire Class Boats in 2012. That procurement hasn’t gone anywhere,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy","category-tugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}