Over 150 years of experience in harbour and marine services

BOLUDA FRANCE is a long-standing player with a strong tradition in maritime culture going back to 1864. We now offer our expertise in harbour and marine services to our clients world-wide, without geographical restriction. Our ambition is to share our know-how with our clients to contribute to the success of their operations on a daily basis and therefore ensure the essential link between land and ocean.

Hand in hand with the maritime community

BOLUDA FRANCE is your preferred partner for all your vessel calls and marine projects. At port or at sea, we offer a full range of harbour and marine services to ship-owners, ship managers, engineering firms, brokers, port agents, etc.

Our reliable and efficient services contribute to your success.

From our strategic locations we offer quick and efficient solutions for coastal and marine towage, ship assistance, and emergency operations.

From towage to marine services

From our early beginnings…

The company that has become BOLUDA TOWAGE FRANCE was born in Le Havre following the creation of the transatlantic steamship route Le Havre / New York during the 19th century.

In 1864, Charles Wolter, creates the towage company Les Abeilles and assigns one, then two tugs at the entrance and exit of the port of Le Havre. Other towage companies then slowly open in other French ports.

…to today

With time, successive buyouts, and business strategy, BOLUDA TOWAGE FRANCE’s current organization is finally put in place.

At the end of 2007, BOLUDA TOWAGE FRANCE joins the towage and salvage division of the Spanish group Boluda Corporación Marítima, one of the world’s largest marine towage ship-owners, operating a fleet of over 200 tugboats in three continents.

Important facts

Over 1200 employees 13 operation sites 5 countries Over 53 000 operations
per year
71 tugs
and 18 service vessels

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