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Costa Concordia

for the removal of the bunker  oil and pollution control. The amount of bunkers in the vessel was 2200 MT of IFO (intermediate fuel oil), 185 MT of MGO... on the removal of fuel from the Costa Concordia. Over the last couple of days, the SMIT Salvage diving team was transferring HFO from the last settling tank in the engine room. Early this morning, the last tanks were completed, closed and sealed off. The entire oil removal process which lasted just over

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Boskalis awarded contract for removal of the Concordia onboard the Dockwise Vanguard

Boskalis awarded contract for removal of the Concordia onboard the Dockwise Vanguard Papendrecht, 10 October 2013 Dockwise, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has been awarded the contract to load and transport the Concordia wreck from Isola del Giglio onboard... following the Concordia accident. SMIT Salvage, together with its local partner Tito Neri, successfully removed the bunker fuel from the ship and acted

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Salvage and protecting marine ecosystems

and containing or removing polluting cargoes or bunker fuel. On average, our Emergency Response and Wreck Removal teams respond to nearly 60 incidents a year. Over... environmental damage to the marine environment. Life below water Wrecked or damaged ships can release bunker oil, lubricants or other potentially... in significant environmental impacts. We have also focused our efforts on investigating and developing techniques for the effective containment and removal

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MSC Napoli

MSC Napoli Container ship ‘MSC Napoli' suffered severe damage during a violent storm in the English Channel on 18 January 2007. SMIT Salvage was contracted to salvage the vessel which involves the discharge of all 2300 containers and the ultimate refloating of the vessel. Removal of bunker oil and containersInitially almost 4000 tonnes of bunker oil was safely recovered. A large barge equipped with two cranes lifted off the containers

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Smart

for the immediate removal of the bunker oil and other pollutants on board plus the removal of the aft section. Within just a day a large, 24-hour operation

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Fuel removal, Costa Concordia

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...Fuel removal, Costa Concordia On Friday the 13th of January 2012 the cruise vessel Costa Concordia, carrying over 4,000 passengers and crew, hit... contract while the wreck removal bid tenders were being considered. SMIT eventually demobilized the team on June the 26th (2012). An unprecedented

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