{"id":32691,"date":"2023-02-10T16:52:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/boluda-to-acquire-smit-lamnalco-tugboat-fleet-to-top-600\/32691\/"},"modified":"2023-02-10T16:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:52:35","slug":"boluda-to-acquire-smit-lamnalco-tugboat-fleet-to-top-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/boluda-to-acquire-smit-lamnalco-tugboat-fleet-to-top-600\/32691\/","title":{"rendered":"Boluda to Acquire Smit Lamnalco, Tugboat Fleet to Top 600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-02-10T07:11:50.0000000\"\/><br \/>\n<span class=\"date\">February 10, 2023<\/span><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2023-02-10T07:11:50.0000000\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"images-wrapper single\">\n<div class=\"images\">\n<div class=\"image active\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\nImage courtesy Boluda Towage\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p><strong><em>Boluda Corporaci\u00f3n Mar\u00edtima, through its Boluda Towage division, has reached an agreement to acquire Smit Lamnalco, the world&#8217;s fifth-largest towage operator.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the acquisition of Smit Lamnalco, Boluda Towage will boast a fleet of 600 tugboats with its tendrils reaching 50 countries and 148 ports around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Smit Lamnalco is 50% owned by Boskalis Group and Rezayat Group currently employing more than 1,600 people and owning 111 vessels.<br \/>&#8220;Boluda is a company that has never stopped growing and transforming itself,&#8221; said Vicente Boluda Fos, Chairman of Boluda Corporaci\u00f3n Mar\u00edtima. &#8220;This new stage is the logical consequence of previous evolutions that, over the last few years, have made us number 1 in port logistics services and in the towage sector. The industry is at a turning point, impacted by the climate emergency and geopolitical tensions. Shipping is at the center of these issues, facing challenges like never before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals in several countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 10, 2023 Image courtesy Boluda Towage Boluda Corporaci\u00f3n Mar\u00edtima, through its Boluda Towage division, has reached an agreement to acquire Smit Lamnalco, the world&#8217;s fifth-largest towage operator. With the acquisition of Smit Lamnalco, Boluda Towage will boast a fleet of 600 tugboats with its tendrils reaching 50 countries and 148 ports around the world. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/32692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}