East Isle Shipyard lands contract for three escort tugs

Workers at the East Isle Shipyard in Georgetown, part of the Irving Shipbuilding Inc. group in Canada, have another contract to handle after Irving confirmed a contract to build a series of three escort tugs for Atlantic Reyser.

“It means more work for our more than 100 employees at the yard,” said Mary Keith, from Irving headquarters in Saint John, N.B. Irving?s East Isle shipyard has built a number of tugs for escort operations in Saint John and the Caucedo LNG terminal in the Dominican Republic. The new tugs are to be delivered by August 2008.

The tugs are designed specifically to act as escort tugs for LNG terminal operations and will also be used in Halifax for Panamax container ships.