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Towing winches (Tugs)

In full control of your towing operation

Our towing winches offer large line capacity with focus on pull and brake load and accurate spooling

Towing winches (Tugs)

An Escort/Harbour tug will typically have a main winch on the foredeck and towing winch on the aft deck to enable it to carry out its main tasks efficiently: braking or steering the escorted vessel out of danger in case of technical failure, acting as an additional rudder for the assisted vessel, or general harbour assist and deep sea towing. Our towing winches cover pulls from 1 to 150 tonnes, with waterfall winches extending the pull range to 300 tonnes. All come with wheelhouse control and monitoring stations that display all the key data.

For other towing operations, Rolls-Royce provides a wide range of winches of different configurations and sizes. They typically have a large line capacity and the focus is on pull and brake load and accurate spooling. Single drum, double drum and waterfall types are supplied to suit the requirements with a choice of hydraulic or electric drive and either on/off or adjustable force brakes. High torque motors plug into the gear case and pipes and valves have been replaced by valve blocks, reducing the number of components and risk of oil leakage. Power for hydraulic winches can be supplied either from engine PTOs or separate powerpacks. Higher rope speeds are now available in both directions.

Towing winches range from small single drum units up to 50 tonnes pull to the specialised anchorhandling and towing winches with up to 600 tonnes pull.

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Rolls-Royce has a portfolio of towing and escort winches developed specifically for tug operations.

The quality, robust construction and flexibility of these winches have made them firm favourites with major tug operators around the world. Furthermore, the equipment from our towing winch portfolio is well suitable for icebreakers operating in arctic conditions as well as to any vessel suitable for emergency towing operation, like coastal and multi-purpose vessels.

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Flexible design

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Customer Product Training

Offering blended teaching combining e-learning, simulator training and more.

Customer Product Training

Ensuring that your crew are properly and thoroughly trained will reduce operational risk and downtime plus maximise return on asset investment.

It also enables you to meet regulatory standards, improve crew safety and retain key personnel. In our state of the art training centres qualified and experienced trainers are able to provide your crew with practical training tailored to suit your products, systems and operational requirements. Our instructors can also train your crew on-board their vessel.

From hands on experience on full sized products in our training workshops, to experiencing real life scenarios in our virtual reality simulators all of our courses are designed to focus on safe and efficient operation and maintenance of your Rolls-Royce equipment.

Regional training centres:

Ålesund, Norway
Niteroi, Brazil
Singapore

E-learning

This type of solution is ideal for course preparation, where the participant is exposed to theoretical training for fundamental basic knowledge, with e-assessments throughout the module to assist in measuring the participants understanding of the basics.

Classroom

This type of solution is ideal for theoretical training, especially for larger groups. It goes through detailed systems overview including drawings and functionality.

Workshop/technical room

This type of solution is ideal for practical training with focus on maintenance and troubleshooting on actual products. This type of training used together with classroom training can provide a holistic view of complete systems.

Simulators

This type of solution is ideal for operator training where simulations of real life scenarios occurring at sea expose crew to dangerous situations in a controlled environment. They can be configured for systems or stand-alone operations like subsea, bridge, crane or winch operations.

DP simulator

Practice manoeuvring around an oil platform in all types of sea conditions. Learn from realistic situations using operator stations arranged as on the vessel.

Winch simulator

Enhanced with a winch remote control and monitoring system, the latest winch configurations helps crew practice and learn how to handle complex winch operations.

Seismic simulator

Realistic training on deploying the streamer cable and deflector. Simulating the operator’s tasks on the back deck of a seismic vessel, using the control system together with the radio remote.

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24/7 Technical Support

Our 24/7 technical support team is there to help at any time of day or night.

24/7 Technical Support

Our 24/7 technical support team is there to help at any time of day or night wherever your vessel is located. They manage your call from the time it is received to the time the issue is resolved.

The team has direct access to the experts in our product centres, should additional support be required, and for the more complex issues a product specialist will be assigned to you. Our priority is to get the right expertise quickly matched with the issue to provide the answers you need.

Contacting any of these numbers will put you through to our global support team:

Americas:	+1 312 725 5727
Asia Pacific:	+65 6818 5665
Europe, Middle East & Africa:	+31 20 700 6474
Email:	[email protected]

Spares

We understand the importance of having the right parts, available in the right place, at the right time.

Spares

We understand the importance of having the right parts, available in the right place, at the right time. Working in close collaboration with our customers we have now developed a Spares Transformation Programme (STP) to further improve our customer response times.

This programme will streamline our operations to reduce lead-times, increase spares availability, and allow customers to track the status of their spares delivery in real-time.

To support the programme, we have opened a dedicated Marine Parts Service Centre (MPSC) to process spares quotations and orders centrally. This is underpinned by an improved logistics and IT infrastructure, which will enable us to deliver high-quality support to our customers, wherever they are in the world.

24/7 Technical support

Our 24/7 technical support team is there to help at any time of day or night wherever your vessel is located. They manage your call from the time it is received to the time the issue is resolved.

Contacting any of these numbers will put you through to our global support team:

Americas:	+1 312 725 5727
Asia Pacific:	+65 6818 5665
Europe, Middle East & Africa:	+31 20 700 6474
Email:	[email protected]

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Our local representatives will continue to respond to your support requirements 24/7. If you would like to learn more about how this enhanced service delivery will benefit you, please contact your nearest Rolls-Royce Office