Our History

Service provision agreement with Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP), which will allow Chile to be the first country in Latin America to have an electric maritime tugboat.

Start of operations of the company’s first two electric tugboats in the Port of Vancouver, Canada.

Closing of purchase of 21 tugboats in Brazil.

Acquisition of the tugboat operations of Ian Taylor in Peru and Standard Towing and Davies Tugboats in Canada.

Agreement with Teck and Neptune for the construction of the first two electric tugs in the SAAM Towage fleet.

Relaunches operations in Peru and enters El Salvador.

Signs Agreement to purchase 70% of Intertug, the largest tugboat operator in Colombia.

Integrates operations acquired from SMIT Boskalis. Expands SAAM’s operating model to all companies in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Panama.

Broadens special services, strengthening rescue and emergency response capacity.

The entity SAAM Towage is formed on October 30th, using one common operating model, name, and image for SAAM’s nine towage operations in the Americas.

The first Tier III tug in our fleet and the first in Canada begins operating at the Ridley Island Propane Export Terminal (RIPET).

SAAM closes a deal to acquire the entire operation owned jointly with Boskalis.

Signs first regional towage contract. SAAM Towage Chile is recognized by Huella Chile for measuring and verifying its greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

Work begins with Consorcio Puente Chacao to provide support to construct a bridge to connect the island of Chiloé with continental Chile.

Joint operations with SMIT Boskalis begin in Brazil, Panama, Mexico, and Canada.

Sociedad Matriz SAAM S.A. is formed as a spin-off of CSAV.

Towage operations begin in Costa Rica and Guatemala.

Company enters Brazil (Tug Brasil).

Operations start in Mexico.

Operations begin in Ecuador with the formation of Ecuaestibas.

Operations start in Uruguay.

First tug is built: the Mataquito.

SAAM is formed.