Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Tugboat operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 535 tugboat operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 18,360 professional contacts across them, including 4,251 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Istanbul the largest hub.
This list covers tugboat operators worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026. Country and city lists for tugboat operators follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest tugboat operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,271 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1833, Svitzer builds on almost 200 years of experience, and our powerful tugboats and experts in towage work tirelessly to keep goods flowing, businesses thriving, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Smit Lamnalco provides first class, reliable and customised marine support in any environment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,056 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SAAM Towage is the leading tugboat operator in the Americas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 627 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Boluda Towage provides tailored towage services to its customers in major ports across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 619 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moran Towing is a leading provider of ship docking, marine transportation, and LNG activities, as well as contract, specialty, and general towing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 400 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Portuary Support and Maritimes Services Company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Unsurpassed for 160 Years We operate a fleet of more than 60 tugboats, crew boats, and barges in 13 locations along the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Centerline Logistics is a leading provider of marine transportation services in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 363 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Vane Brothers Company has served the maritime industry for more than 125 years, providing a wide range of services that includes ship bunkering and lightering; the delivery of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 351 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Harbour Towing | Shipyard | Ship Repairs | Naval Construction | Equipement Rental | Floating wharves | Barge and Worboat Rental | Salvage | Marine Transportation | Dredging Ocean…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 328 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A Leading Tugboat Company Having 50 years of experience, Sanmar represents a reputation for innovation and excellence at its two custom-built, state-of-the-art shipyards in Tuzla…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1978, Sulnorte Serviços Marítimos Ltda is a family-owned tugboat company that takes pride in being a pioneer in Brazil's maritime industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 293 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Østensjø Rederi is a family-owned company, established in 1974 by owner Johannes Østensjø.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UZMAR was founded in 1972 by Senior Harbour Pilot Captain Altay Altug, as “The First Private Pilotage & Towage Company of Turkey”, serving various private ports and harbors in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 288 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blessey Marine owns and operates one of the youngest multi-faceted inland tank barge and towing vessel fleets in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kirby Offshore Marine is the largest United States operator of coastal tank barges and towing vessels participating in the regional distribution of refined products, black oil…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 243 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lanpan is the Owner, Operator, and Manager of a modern fleet of Tugboats, Anchor Handling / Towing Tugs (AHT), and Deck Cargo & Water Carriers (Barges).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Multraship Towage & Salvage is a division of the Muller Maritime Group, jointly owned by the Dutch Muller Family and Hamburg based Fairplay Towage.The company's core activities…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “G&H Towing Company is one of the oldest and most progressive towing companies on the Texas Gulf Coast, and we operate an outstanding fleet of over harbor tugs with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Turkish shipbuilder & Türkiye's leading tugboat operator Med Marine is a Turkish shipbuilder and Turkey's leading tugboat operator, providing a broad range of services in towage…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seaways International was acquired by KOTUG International.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 172 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Buksér og Berging AS is a leading supplier of marine services within port and terminals, ocean towage, offshore work and complex marine operations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Desgagnés is a Quebec group reputed for the excellence of its maritime and land operations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MedTug SpA (formerly Rimorchiatori Mediterranei SpA, ex Rimorchiatori Riuniti Group) is now part of BOLUDA TOWAGE, owned by Boluda Corporaciòn Maritima and MSC Group, the largest…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: tugboat operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names tugboat operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of tugboat operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name tugboat operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Tugboat operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among tugboat operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for tugboat operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “tugboat operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names tugboat operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among tugboat operators, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,251 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Tugboat operators by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Tugboat operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names tugboat operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many tugboat operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 535 tugboat operators worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Svitzer, headquartered in Worldwide, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most tugboat operators?
The United States leads with 135 companies, followed by the Netherlands (41) and Canada (32). Every tugboat operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most tugboat operators?
Istanbul leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Seattle (7) and Houston (6).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,251 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 535 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.