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Selendang Ayu

Selendang Ayu The Malaysian flagged 225 metres long cargo vessel suffered a main engine breakdown, drifted without power, grounded and eventually broke in two off the coast of Western Unalaska Island. SMIT mobilised a salvage team to inspect the casualty. A complicated operation commenced... recovered. SMIT Salvage

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JBB_Derong_19_2017
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Oil and wreck removal JBB Derong 19

Oil and wreck removal JBB Derong 19 In September 2017, dredger JBB DE RONG 19 collided with a tanker in the Singapore straits. After the collision, the dredger capsized and was partially submerged. SMIT Salvage was contracted for the initial response to recover any pollutant material... Strait SMIT Salvage Singapore BIMCO Wreck removal contract

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Book published by Boskalis about the salvage of the Ever Given

Book published by Boskalis about the salvage of the Ever Given Papendrecht, 8 December 2021‎ In March this year Boskalis was at the center of worldwide media attention on the salvage of the stranded mega container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal. In collaboration with the Suez Canal Authority a large group of experts from Boskalis and its subsidiary SMIT Salvage succeeded in refloating the enormous vessel within a week during a spring tide

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Boskalis expands Salvage presence in the US by acquiring Ardent Americas

Boskalis expands Salvage presence in the US by acquiring Ardent Americas Papendrecht, 9 April 2020 Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis... emergency response companies for the provision of salvage and marine firefighting services. Ardent Americas OPA90 program covers approximately 500 shipowners encompassing over 4,000 vessels. Ardent Americas was established in 2015 following the merger of Svitzer Salvage and Titan Salvage, operates from

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SMART-0903
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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... was set up including a Salvage team and various equipment from both warehouses in Cape Town and the Netherlands. The continuous swell and rough weather at the casualty location made it a very challenging task for the salvage crew to work on and around the vessel throughout the entire operation

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Mariolina de Carlini

Leone. The vessel was fully laden with iron ore and grounded on the rocks. SMIT Salvage was directly notified about the incident by its sister company Smit Lamnalco, which operates tugs for several terminals in Freetown. A salvage team from the Netherlands mobilized overnight to be able to carry out an inspection of the vessel the next day. In the meantime SMIT Salvage was awarded the LOF contract by the owners. Initial inspections showed

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