Boluda Corporación Marítima’s towage division, Boluda Towage, and its Honduran subsidiary begin towage operations in Puerto Cortés.
This port enclave, located in the north of the country, on the Caribbean coast, is one of the largest and best equipped in the region and the only deep-water port in Central America.
Boluda’s fleet is made up of three powerful tugs (70 tons of bollard pull) with ASD propulsion: the VB KUKULKAN, the VB BRIBON and the VB CHIHUAHUA. The first two of these were recently built by Damen Shipyards and comply with the IMO’s (International Maritime Organization) strict IMO TIER III regulations on reducing emissions for marine engines, making them the first tugs with this environmental qualification to operate in Honduras.
The safety and optimisation of the manoeuvres afforded by these tugboats in port manoeuvres will speed up the logistics chain, guaranteeing the continuous flow of the country’s maritime foreign trade.
Boluda remains firmly committed to decarbonisation and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the improvement of air quality in the coastal areas and port cities in which it operates.
