tugboat

Last month, Jakarta seized some two dozen barges and tugboats preparing to transport granite to its tiny resource-poor neighbour.

Tugboats are used to maneuver, primarily by towing or pushing, other vessels in harbors, over the open sea or through rivers and canals.

Tugboats are highly maneuverable and various propulsion systems have been developed to increase maneuverability and increase safety.

Tugboats were helped out by Mother Nature's high tide as the USS Intrepid was moved from its Manhattan pier today.

The captain had to berth the ship without the aid of tugboats.

Seven tugboats pulled the vessel, a platform China acquired from Ukraine, into the port of Dalian on Sunday morning.

Harbor tugs are the most typical of the tugboats that people recognize.

Twenty-five tugboats service the harbour, their skippers skilfully helping to guide over a hundred ships in and out of the port every day.

The strike would prevent the docking of ocean steam ships which require assistance of tugboats.

Two tugboats are pulling the Splendor back to port.

Early tugboats had steam engines; today diesel engines are used.

There are two groups of tugboats , either Inland or Oceangoing.

Tugboats, for example, are idle with their engines running for 60% of the time and operate at full power for only about 10% of the time.

Tugboats chug past, shoving and hauling their variously laden barges;

now , it ' s highly necessary to using correctly one or many tugboats simultaneous

Thecompany's fleet of tugboats was laid up by the strike