Tug of the year – powered by Echandia
The world’s first all-electric ship-handling tug Sparky – wins the prestigious ‘Tug of the Year award’ at the 2022 International Tug & Salvage Awards in Istanbul, Turkey. The impressively powerful and emission-free tug, that operates on Echandia’s LTO batteries, has a 70-ton bollard pull that will stack up with the performance of any conventional tug.Most ship-handling harbor tugs operate under harsh conditions and are set to take on heavy-duty jobs. Thus, tugboats running on lithium batteries might seem like an exceptionally difficult proposition. However, since August 2022, Sparky – the