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

Norman Atlantic tow claims lives of two salvors

DECEMBER 30, 2014 — Two Albanian seafarers aboard a salvage tug towing the fire ravaged ferry Norman Atlantic were killed when a cable broke.A third was seriously injured. The ferry is being

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