Towage Services

     FSUE “Rosmorport” provides towage services in 19 seaports of the Russian Federation involving:
     - mooring, tugging or other maneuvering vessels in seaports waters;
     - refloating of vessels moved beyond the navigation pass or beyond the upper edge of canals in the seaports of Azov, Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog waters and approaches to them;
     - sea towage of ships and other watercrafts.
 
     Towage services involving mooring, tugging or other maneuvering vessels in seaports waters are provided by the following branches of FSUE “Rosmorport”:
     - Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch (seaports of Azov, Eysk, Kavkaz, Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog and Temryuk);
     - Arkhangelsk Branch (seaport of Arkhangelsk);
     - Astrakhan Branch (seaports of Astrakhan and Olya);
     - Far Eastern Basin Branch (seaports of Nakhodka, Posyet, Vladivostok and Vostochny);  
     - North-Eastern Basin Branch (seaports of Anadyr, Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan);
     - Petropavlovsk Branch (seaport of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky);
     - Sakhalin Branch (seaports of Korsakov and Shakhtersk).


     Sea towage services are provided by the following branches of FSUE “Rosmorport”:
     - Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch;
     - Azov Basin Branch;
     - Arkhangelsk Branch;

     - North-Eastern Basin Branch

     FSUE “Rosmorport” guarantees quality of its towage services by engaging 68 tugboats (icebreakers, seagoing and harbour tugboats) with capacities of 110 – 21 000 kW, as well as high qualified crew and technical experts.
     All enterprise tugs are certified in appropriate way to perform relevant operations on towage.
     FSUE “Rosmorport” carries out towage services under the license on towage performance with sea transport dated 27.03.2013 series МТ-3 No. 000672, issued by Rostransnadzor, in accordance with the Merchant Shipping Code of the Russian Federation, General Regulations for navigation and mooring in the seaports of the Russian Federation and on approaches to them adopted by Mintrans of Russia order No. 395 of 12.11.2021, Compulsory Regulations in the Russian Federation seaports adopted by Mintrans of Russia orders in regard to each seaport.
 

     Number of towage operations provided by FSUE “Rosmorport” involving mooring, tugging or other maneuvering vessels in seaports of the Russian Federation
 
Year Number of towage operations
2012–2019 ⇲
2012 14,984
2013 16,272
2014 18,707
2015 20,750
2016 14,733
2017 12,230
2018 11,353
2019 13,749
2020 12,610
2021 14,713
2022 12,816
2023 18,190

      Information on the number of refloated vessels

 

Year Number of vessels
2015-2019 ⇲
2015 9
2016 23
2017 10
2018 19
2019 2
2020 8
2021 2
2022 1
2023 4

Number of sea towage operations provided by FSUE “Rosmorport”
 
Year Number of sea towage operations 
2012–2019 ⇲
2012 1
2013 33
2014 20
2015 38
2016 19
2017 11
2018 12
2019 48
2020 4
2021 1
2022 2
2023 2

     More details on procedures of towage services provision by the enterprise branches in corresponding seaports is available in the sections of FSUE “Rosmorport” website dedicated to their description.