Project
Smart
250 m from the coast. Just hours after the grounding, the vessel broke in two. SMIT Salvage and one of its local partners were contracted.... By making use of SMIT’s hot taps, pumps and hoses, all 1,900 tons of the heavy fuel oil was pumped into local barges and safely brought ashore without causing any oil pollution. Other pollutants were safely removed from the vessel as well. SMIT’s naval architects calculated that most of the cargo