The Fleet of Tugs at Adriatic Maritime Service Increased to Twelve Vessels This Year

The Rijeka-based company Adriatic Maritime Service (JPS) this week used the celebration of its 35th anniversary to showcase the results of this year’s investment cycle worth over twenty million euros with a spectacular display at sea off Opatija. This involved three new modern tugs, named ‘Moretto’, ‘Gea’, and ‘Titan’, which performed a synchronized waltz in the open sea to the melody of Strauss’s ‘Tales from the Vienna Woods’ in front of an audience on the Opatija waterfront.

With the addition of three new tugs, the latest being ‘Titan’, which can tow an incredible 80 tons on its own, JPS’s fleet has increased to twelve vessels, making it the leading tug fleet in the northern Adriatic. JPS’s tug services are utilized in the ports of Rijeka and Zadar, at the oil terminal in Omišalj, at the terminals in Plomin and Raša, and at the LNG terminal on Krk. The tugs are also engaged by all three shipyards in Kvarner (3. maj, Viktor Lenac, and Kraljevica), and they are used in rescue operations, maritime assistance, firefighting interventions, marine environmental protection, and operations with JPS’s floating crane and barge.

– Since 2016, when JPS became part of the Scafi group, we have invested over fifty million euros in modernizing our fleet, services, and improving working conditions, ensuring that our fleet, now reinforced with three new modern tugs, can meet all the demands of current and future economic maritime traffic. Our strategy remains focused on people and knowledge, as they are key to maintaining the high professional standards for which we are recognized, not only in Croatia but throughout Europe and the world – stated Paolo Visco, JPS director and member of the management board of the Italian Scafi group, a leading company in the tug industry in the Mediterranean, which operates over forty tugs in Italy, Croatia, Greece, and Morocco.