

Recently, two units of ASD tugboats, which were built for Tianjin port and named “JIN GANG LUN 31” and “JIN GANG LUN 32”, had obtained addition notation for smart vessel by CCS. It symbols the first ASD tugboat according with CCS AUT-0 notation and i-ship notation in China.
The addition notation for smart vessel is i-ship (M),(E),(I). This innovation result is the effort made and cooperated by Tianjin port, CCS, Wartsila company, Zhenjiang SaierNico company and our company through 3 years.
Tianjin smart ASD tugboat reaches highest level in international ship industry by virtue of automatic and intelligent technologies. It guides the industry and changes in aspect of ship use and management in port tugboat. Besides, the smart vessel, together with“XUE LONG 2”and 21K container vessel of COSCO Shipping, are listed as model ships in the formulation of the National Standard Smart Ship 2020.