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Fuel removal, Costa Concordia

of the Costa Concordia in order to offer its salvage expertise and experience. SMIT decided to mobilize a team of salvage experts and critical, portable salvage equipment immediately and on speculation; this in order to prevent wasting valuable mobilization time during the contract negotiations. In the days following the accident, a contract was awarded to SMIT Salvage and its longstanding Italian salvage partners Tito Neri S.rl. for the removal of bunker

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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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Silver

of Tantan port, Morocco. After several initial refloating attempts by local tugs were unsuccessful, SMIT Salvage was contracted on a LOF basis on the 25th of December to render assistance through the immediate mobilization of tugs, equipment and a salvage team. Meanwhile, the vessel was lifted... Salvage experts, plus an additional contingent of oil pollution prevention experts, who arrived on the 25th and 26th of December. Shortly thereafter, 30t

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Kursk

Kursk Salvage of the Russian nuclear submarine ’Kursk’ and transport of the submarine into a drydock in Murmansk. An explosion in the bow... team of heavy lift, salvage, diving and other specialists were involved in the recovery. The weight of the submarine, when prepared for the main lift... was delivered in the Murmansk drydock on October 22, which marked the end of this memorable salvage operation. Services Marine and salvage consultancy

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Wreck Removal

, engineering capabilities and financial stamina to provide a total solution and certainty of cost to the client. SMIT Salvage has the option of calling upon... commit to delivering the best possible result that is both cost-effective and sustainable to our client. SMIT Salvage is constantly exploring new methods... wherever possible. Wreck removal in the North Sea To ensure safe navigation, SMIT Salvage was awarded the contract for the removal of two ship wrecks

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