Promotion video National Dutch Towage Museum
Recently the board of the National Dutch Towage Museum has commissioned the media company Dubbelklik from Rotterdam to create and produce a promotion video about the museum and the staff. During the week beginning October 6th, 2014, after a period of intensive preparations by the workgroup, the recordings started. From Monday till Thursday the two ladies of the filmcrew of Dubbelklik are very busy to get the interwiews and presentations by board members and volunteers of the museum on tape. The results so far fully meet our expectations. After the recording sessions starts the cut-and-paste phase. This first try-out will be presented to the promotion film workgroup. The cooperation with Dubbelklik is highly positive, in Dutch we have a saying that "we have a click". As soon as we have the first results, these will be presented in the website. The final video will also figure on the website. The visitor of the website will then be able to start up the promotion film by clicking on the photo icon.
On photo: The film crew of Dubbelklik is recording the story of board member mr. Paul Alers in the sea hall of the National Dutch Towage Museum
In the National Towage Museum you find many artifacts and parts that are and have been used in the towage industry. Part of this collection is publicly exposed, others are stored in our depots on other locations.
The space of the National Dutch Towage Museum has been furnished according to themes. The halls are called as follows: the Zeezaal (Sea hall) for long range ocean tugs; the Havenzaal (Harbour hall) for harbour- and coastal tugs; the Rivierzaal (River hall) for inland and river (Rhine) tugs; the Burgemeesterszaal (used to be the burgomaster's office) for meetings and films; the Trouwzaal (the wedding room) for temporary expositions; the Bergingszaal (Salvage hall) for salvage ships and equipment; the Trappenhuis (stairs shaft) for miscellaneous objects.
For your orientation please click on the links below to open the hall plan:
When you visit the National Towage Museum, you might well notice the beautiful paintings and other artefacts in the halls of the building. Part of this collection is being exposed, a number of other paintings we have in depot.
Associated with the museum is the in Holland well-known maritime painter Hans Breeman. On the photo you see one of his latest creations, the Dutch Shelltanker "Kryptos", built in 1955.
Among the possessions of the National Towage Museum are several maritime magazines and publications, collected over a long period of time. In later years we obtained these papers and journals in digitized format. A project has been set up to have the older issues scanned and electronical stored as well, in order to make this information easily and quick accessable.
We are able to offer most of the volumes of:
- De Beting
- Wijsmuller
- Lekko
- Schip en Werf
- De Blauwe Wimpel
- Scheepvaartniews
- Lloyd's Register
and a number of other titles
Newsletter National Towage Museum September 2014
The latest newsletter of the National Towage Museum dated September 2014 is published!
\r\nThis bulletin contains:
\r\n- the resign of our expert Nico Ouwehand
- the status of the movement of the old archives of the museum
- the acquisition of the model of the tug ZEELAND
- digitizing the photo collection of the museum
- lighting of the the open-work model of the tug NOORDZEE
- the announcement of the so called Allemansend in december 2014
Please press the blue button to download the newsletter. Note: the newsletter is published in the Dutch language only.
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The National Towage Museum owns a large library containing a unique collection of maritime books, especially about the towing service. Part of this are the shipping indexes over many years, for instance Lloyd's. Often the origin of our books are open-handedness and inheritance. Being a visitor of the museum you are allowed to consult these documents. If you are in the possession of maritime books or documents, and you are considering to dispose of these, we would appreciate it very much if you would decide to donate them to the museum.
A limited number of book titles are for sale. You can order these in the museum shop, on the book fair, via the website or by telephone.
In association with the National Towage Museum the following books have been published:
Nico J. Ouwehand - De Smit-Lloyd Story
Nico J. Ouwehand - Van Walegang en Berghout
Maarten Bezuyen - De Hudson / Driemaal Is Scheepsrecht
De zeesleper Thames in de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Europort maritime fair from 5 till 8 November 2019
The Europort exhibition is being organized once per 2 years in the month November in the AHOY exhibition complex at Rotterdam, the next being in 2019. This show is one of the largest fairs of the maritime industry.
The Foundation Tug Harbour Maassluis, in which the National Towage Museum takes part, is one of the participants of the fair. Visitors we gladly welcome at our stand.
From 7 - 10 November 2017 Europort, organised in the world port city of Rotterdam, will be the international maritime meeting place for innovative technology and complex shipbuilding. Europort has a strong focus on special purpose ships including offshore vessels, dredging vessels, construction vessels, naval vessels, workboats, inland vessels, fishery vessels and super yachts. With almost 30,000 professional visitors and 1,100 exhibiting companies Europort belongs to the world’s leading maritime meeting places.
Tug operators push smart agenda at Europort
18 september 2019
If Boluda’s recent €300 million acquisition of Kotug Smit has topped the European tug news agenda, with the Spanish firm easing into the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the UK, few doubt that regulatory and technology issues offer the sector’s more lasting stories.
Dutch towage company Multraship Towage & Salvage, for example recently took delivery of the Damen-built tugs Multratug 6 and Multratug 29, the former of which is notable as the first IMO III compliant tug in Europe. Leendert Muller, Multraship managing director, says the design is "in tune with the increasing demand from local port authorities for clean operations”.
Turkish shipyard Navtek, meanwhile, is building the first tug to be fully powered by batteries with Corvus Energy. ZeeTug, as the vessel is known, is expected to be ready for sea trials later this year.
The two developments offer evidence that, despite its supportive role, the tug and towage sector is at the heart of the maritime technology’. If hidden from wider view, this quality will be no secret for those attending this year’s Autumn conference of the European Tugowners Association (ETA) at Rotterdam Ahoy on November 7th, coinciding with Europort 2019. In fact, the ETA event will bring together some of the 'smart business’ movers driving the ideas behind the Europort 2019 programme.
While Boluda’s presence as one of the shipowner panellists joining the official opening ceremony of Europort 2019 may turn heads, therefore, the digitalisation and AI that can make tugs safer and more efficient are likely to prove the lasting talking points emerging from Rotterdam.
Technology is helping to boost safety, with market-leading tug operator Svitzer initiating sea trials of an industry-first remotely operated line catching system, for example. The prototype, under test on the tug Svitzer Trym, is designed to reduce the risk of harm to crew when connecting with other vessels. Technology is also enhancing efficiency: Rotterdam-based PortX and Helm Operations recently signed a strategic agreement to combine PortX’s AI-based dispatching system, OptiPort, with Helm Connect software for operations and maintenance. OptiPort uses AI to enhance the analytics driving scheduling decisions to include crew working hours, currents, tides, vessel characteristics and fuel consumption. Significant savings in fuel consumption and crew overtime are claimed.
Looking further ahead is the Kotug project exploiting autonomous ship technologies as part of tug operations using the training Rotortug RT Borkum. Kotug has conducted trials using real-time sensor technology to monitor the position and surroundings of this training tug, whose systems include high spec technology from Europort exhibitors onboard, such as the Alphatron camera visualization and systems integration in the consoles, and the Veth steering and engine control system that can switch between remote and local control.
"The purpose of this project is to gain knowledge in creating situational awareness on a remote bridge,” says Kotug manager for fleet performance and innovation Koos Smoor. "Development and testing are ongoing with our focus on being able to remotely control a fire-fighting tug.”
Last year, with the training unit located in Rotterdam, control was handed over to an Alphatron 360˚ bridge simulator in Marseille, France. In later trials, this tug was controlled from a simulator at Kotug’s Tug Training & Consultancy’s centre in the Netherlands.
Confirmed speakers at ETA 2nd Autumn Conference "Business models for the future” include Professor Hercules Haralambides, Professor of Maritime Economics and Logistics at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and Ewout Mante, a leading digital transportation consultant, whose specialism is digitalisation and AI.
Apart from the Foundation Stichting Sleepboothaven Maassluis the following organizations, that are active in rhe towage business, will participate (not excluding others): Yanmar, Wärtsilä, Kooiman Group, Veth Propulsion, Volvo Penta, Voith Group, Vereniging De Binnenvaart, Hybrid Ship Propulsion, Thecla Bodewes Shipyards, Holland Shipyards Group, Stork, Hebo, Schottel GmbH, Scheepvaartkrant, Santierul Naval Constanta SA (Constanta Shipyard), Royal Bodewes, Reintjes Benelux, Rotterdam Shiprepair, Den Norske Veritas, Radio Holland Group, Padmos Stellendam, Damen Shipyards, Cummins, Novatug, Neptune Shipyards, Koninklijke Niestern Sander, Bureau Veritas, Binnenvaartkrant, Astilleros Armon SA, Alphatron, MAN Energy Solutions.
More information you find on the website www.europort.nl.
Photo: The stand of the Foundation Tug Harbour Maassluis on the Europort fair 2013 in Ahoy.
The National Towage Museum possesses hundreds of films on the towage subject and other connected subjects, like the history of Maassluis. The videos can be started by the visitor himself using the Film System (FS). In this system you find a description of the videos, that helps you to make a choice which film you want to see. The command structure works via a touchscreen.
