During 2006/7 the Italian operator Rimorchiatori Laziali SpA, part of Cafimar Group, bought a pair of 32m escort ASD tugs from the specialist Turkish tug builder Sanmar. Some  eight years later, the company acquired two more similar 80+ tonne bollard pull vessels from the same builder. Now the company has taken delivery of Laziale, the first of a yet another pair of powerful vessels headed across the Aegean Sea.