A ceremony of raising the Russian flag was held on July 21 on four new tugboats in the port of Vladivostok. Three 3010 Type and one 2609 Type vessels were built at a Damen shipyard in China for Rosmorport, Russia’s state owned port facility management company.
Three of them (two 3010 Type and the 2609 Type tugs), namely, “Askold”, “Yemar”, and “Sukhodol” will be deployed in Vladivostok, and the 3010 Type “Truzhenik” will be deployed in Vanino.