Expert Towage, Heavy Lift, and Transport Approvals with Professional Certification
TowService BV: Comprehensive Maritime Solutions & Certifications
Warranty Surveys
TowService BV specializes in a wide range of maritime services designed to ensure the safety and efficiency of your operations. Our offerings include towage approvals and certification, heavy lift and transport approvals, and oversight of lifting and lowering operations. We provide experienced tow and loading masters and comprehensive project cargo risk management. Trust TowService BV for professional, certified services that prioritize your project’s success and safety.
Warranty Surveys
Towage approvals and certification. With modern equipment and software, we are able to monitor the weather forecasts and navigational hazards continuously and provide the vessel, manager and underwriter on daily base with the latest updated information.
Heavy Lift and Lashing
Heavy lift and Transport approvals. “Project Cargo Risk Management System”, which includes preproject risk analysis and calculations and ensures are minimized, suitability of vessels, vehicles, lashings and lifting equiment and much more. All of this in accordance with globally accepted regulations and guidelines. It is important to properly resource, plan and organise lifting operations. We provide surveyors with experience with all types of lifting operations. They plan, prepare, communicate and verify before start-up and during operation. By conducting a complete risk assessment of the lifting, risks are reduced, resulting in safe operation.
RoRo and float on/off operations
Roll on and Roll off operations with Self Propelled Modular Transporters (SPMT’s) of heavy or voluminous cargo on and off barges or vessels are operations consisting of multiple disciplines. Our surveyors can combine the different disciplines such as stability calculations, ballast plans, stowage plans, mooring plans, and capacity calculations. Thanks to good planning, good communication and experience, operations can be carried out more safely and most of the time, more efficiently if we participate in preparation and during implementation.
Specialized heavy cargo ships
About the risks, it also applies to float on and float off operations. Also known as semi-submersible vessels, provide the ability to load, transport, and unload cargo. Vessels or barges are designed to carry ballast water in floodable tanks that partially submerge the ship. The cargo is then floated over the submerged part of the ship, which is then thrown and emerges under the cargo. Once the vessel is completely unloaded, the cargo is secured for transport.
Voyage approvals
The request for voyage approvals arises from the desire of insurers to limit their exposure to risks while traveling on a ship or tugboat. Faced with the need to insure a voyage, more comfortable knowing that a competent and experienced surveyor has physically inspected the vessel, tug and towing equipment and approved the arrangements. With modern equipment and software, We are able to monitor weather forecasts and boating hazards on an ongoing basis and provide the vessel, manager and underwriter with the latest updated information on a daily basis.
Tow and Loading masters
We provide a towing master and / or loading master with extensive knowledge and skills as captain or master mariner in the field of towing. The towing or loading master is able to clearly communicate his knowledge and experience to other involved in the operation. The towing master is the responsible person during a complex tow transport with multiple tugs. The towing master can advise a tugboat captain who lacks specific experience in complex assignments or transports, or when communication over the radio proves to be difficult. The towing master can thus prevent damage to equipment and lost time to operations if an otherwise experienced crew is unable to carry out the job. The loading master is the person in charge during a loading operation when the cargo is loaded on or off a vessel / barge.
Project cargo Risk management
Analyzing the risks involved in the transportation of any project cargo is essential to reduce the chance of financial or any other losses related to the cargo. Surveyors of TowService B.V. can tell you what are the risks the owners and underwriters will be exposed to during the whole transportation chain and how to minimize the risks. Our experienced surveyors will analyse all aspects of the project and consider all exposures. By doing this, they will inform all of parties involved, of the optimum solutions in terms of route. transport mode and methods and so on.
TowService BV
Our surveyors ensure your tow and cargo reach their destination safely and efficiently, drawing from extensive practical experience in the towing industry, both as captains and surveyors. TowService B.V. enhances this expertise with the technical knowledge of a renowned engineering office. This collaboration allows us to accurately calculate and verify all special transports, including cradles, pedestals, sea fastening, and other structural elements. We believe TowService B.V. is a valuable addition to the market, providing vessels, managers, and underwriters with the latest updates and information daily.
Our Core Values: The Foundation of Our Commitment to Excellence
Reliability
We are committed to delivering dependable and consistent services, ensuring that our clients can always count on us for quality and timeliness in every project.
Expertise
Our team of seasoned professionals brings extensive industry knowledge and experience, providing tailored solutions that meet the unique challenges of maritime operations.
Innovation
We embrace the latest technologies and methodologies, continually improving our services to offer innovative and efficient solutions that enhance our clients' operational effectiveness.
Client-Centric
We prioritize our clients' needs, building strong, long-term partnerships through personalized service and a deep understanding of their specific requirements.