Tag: salvage operation

AAL Shipping (AAL) has undertaken a salvage operation to remove two tugs from the Mersey River in Devonport on the north-west coast of Tasmania that had been sunk by a cement carrier in January.

IG Clubs’ Salvage Committee have launched a report which provides a review into delays in contracting and engagement of salvage services in marine casualties, finding that delays are occurring and on the increase.

MOL participated in a tabletop drill in preparation for a serious marine incident, organized by Pilbara Ports Authority (PPA) in the Australian state of Western Australia.

Marine insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) issued the Safety & Shipping Review 2022, explaining that large vessels continue to drive ever-higher exposures, with fires, container and carrier losses, hazardous cargo, costlier salvage operations and issues with port of refuge leading to oversized losses and general average becoming more frequent.

In this video, Ben Harris, Chair of the International Group's Salvage Committee talks about the projects that the committee is currently working on and the areas it is focusing.

Sri Lanka started an operation to retrieve debris and freight containers resting on the ocean bed after the disaster of X-Press Pearl in May 2021.

Following the Crimson Polaris grounding that occurred off the coast of Hachinohe on August 11, the bow part of the fragmented hull was towed into Hachinohe Port.

Almost three months after the fatal sinking of the lifting boat 'Seacor Power', salvage teams managed to raise the wreck's bow section to the surface of the water and transported it by barge on Saturday to the Modern American Recycling Services, Inc. facility in Houma, the USCG announced. 

X-Press Feeders, operators of the container ship ‘X-Press Pearl’, confirmed that the wreck is now wholly sitting on the seabed at a depth of 21 meters.

Less than a month after the USCG revealed plans to refloat the ill-fated liftboat Seacor Power, the operation has become more challenging with salvage crews reporting that the wreck has rotated and that the hull has separated from the superstructure.