Ardent celebrates its first birthday
JUNE 3, 2016 — Houston headquartered Ardent, the company created by the merger of Crowley Maritime’s Titan Salvage and the Maersk Group’s Svitzer Salvage, has just celebrated its first birthday. “One year
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Recovering El Faro VDR requires new mission
APRIL 28, 2016 — The National Transportation Safety Board says that the investigative team aboard the research vessel Atlantis who located the El Faro’s voyage data recorder Tuesday has determined it will
Giant box ship towed into Hamburg
FEBRUARY 9, 2016 — After an operation that started just after 2.00 a.m. this morning, the 399.6 m containership CSCL Indian Ocean arrived in Hamburg at 06.15 a.m., local time. The ship
Boskalis reports high profit half year
AUGUST 21, 2015 — Papendrecht, Netherlands, based Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V.yesterday reported a very busy first half year with historically high profit, with good results from all the company’s major operating segments:
Donjon Marine gets $44.5 million Navy award
AUGUST 2, 2015 — Donjon Marine Co. Inc., Hillside, NJ, is being awarded a $44,500,000 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-11-D-4002 for salvage, salvage-related towing, harbor clearance, ocean engineering, and point-to-point towing
Ardent and Ardentia Marine to remove oil from sunken trawler
JUNE 15, 2015 — Ardent, the recent merger of Titan and Svitzer Salvage, and Spanish salvage and diving company Ardentia Marine have been awarded the contract to remove oil from the sunken
T&T Salvage completes Great Lakes OPA 90 response
MAY 4, 2015 — T&T Salvage was activated under its Salvage and Marine Firefighting Agreement to respond to a 600 foot laker that recently went aground on the St Mary’s River near
Big deal: Crowley, Svitzer merge salvage operations
APRIL 21, 2015—Starting May 1 there will be a new name in maritime salvage and emergency response—Ardent. The new company will be 50/50 owned by Crowley Maritime Corporation, Jacksonville, FL, and Svitzer, Ijmuiden, the Netherlands, after
South Korean President vows to raise sunken ferry
APRIL 16, 2015 — One year after the sinking of the ferry Sewol with the loss of 304 people, many of them children, South Korean President Park Geun-hye has promised to raise
Höegh Osaka to be towed into Southampton Port
JANUARY 22, 2015 — The U.K. Marine & Coastguard Agency reported that the list of the car carrier Höegh Osaka had been reduced to 5 degrees. Plans were for the vessel to