La Boluda Towage by the Spanish group Boluda Corporación Marítima continues its campaign to acquire maritime and port towing companies, having entered into a agreement to buy the British SMS Towage, an acquisition that will include port and offshore services as well as of the Hessle-based company together with its entire staff and the its entire fleet of 20 tugboats.

With the acquisition of SMS Towage, which operates in the ports of Tyne, Tees, Humber, Portsmouth, South Wales and Belfast and in the regions of the United Kingdom, the Boluda Towage will increase share of this market, where it is already present in the ports of Invergordon (Cromarty Firth), London, Liverpool and Southampton.

Following the acquisition, SMS Towage will be renamed Boluda Towage SMS.