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Maersk's Svitzer Establishes Montreal Harbour Towage

Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.

April 11, 2016

Denmark's Svitzer, the world's biggest tugboat operator, said on Monday it has established a harbour towage service in the Port of Montreal providing shipdocking, escort and ice-breaking services.

Svitzer, a unit in shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk , said in a statement it has mobilized two ice-class tugs to the port and a third tug will arrive in mid-April.

"Canada is one of our key growth markets in the Americas," the company added.

Svitzer reshuffled its organisation in August in a bet to speed up growth in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.


Reporting by Ole Mikkelsen

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