Safehaven´s "Celso Madeira" for Portugal's Sines Port starts sea trials

Original article published on Baird Maritime

Irish builder Safehaven Marine has delivered a new pilot boat ordered by the Port of Sines in southwestern Portugal near the country’s capital of Lisbon.

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