A U.S. Navy-led salvage team has successfully removed 229,000 gallons of oil from the sunken World War II vessel ex-Prinz Eugen located in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The project, led by the Navy’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV), which is part of the Naval Sea Systems...
The plan is to lift the vessel and transfer it to a semi-submersible barge.
From the awards ceremony
Leading towage and salvage specialist Multraship and its innovation arm, Novatug, have won the prestigious Maritime KVNR Shipping Award 2018 for their ground-breaking Carrousel RAVE TUG (CRT) design.
The award was presented to Leendert Muller, managing director of Multraship, on 12 November in Amsterdam during the Maritime Awards Gala, an annual event organised by the Stichting Maritime Awards Gala foundation representing Netherlands Maritime Technology, The Royal...
Tokyo – Leading classification society ClassNK released “PrimeShip-GREEN/ProSTA ver.ITTC” on 1st November 2018. It is the world’s first software that calculates and analyzes a ship’s speed for Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) calculation in compliance with the latest International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) 2017 Guidelines (ITTC Recommended Procedures and Guidelines 7.5-04-01-01.1, Preparation, Conduct and Analysis of Speed/Power Trials; 2017) for EEDI verification.
MARPOL Annex VI...
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/01/classnk-releases-primeship-greenprosta-ver-ittc/
The 64th General Meeting of the International Salvage Union was officially opened by their President Charo Coll on Tuesday 23rd October 2018 and hosted by Captain Nicholas Sloane of Resolve Marine Group at the Table Bay Hotel, V&A Waterfront.
Ms Coll is General Manager of the Offshore and Salvage Division of Spanish company Boluda Corporación Marítima. She has more than 25 years’ experience in the industry coordinating the salvage division of Boluda Corporation. In this role she coordinated the...
http://www.sashippingnews.com/2018/10/26/the-international-salvage-union-arrives-in-cape-town/
OCTOBER 12, 2018 — Two ships that had been wedged together after a T-bone collision off Corsica on October 7 finally separated at about 9 pm yesterday when wave action added to the effects of previous attempts to pull them apart.
Video released by France’s Préfecture Maritime de la Méditerranée (PREMAR) shows that both ships suffered significant damage.
According to PREMAR the incident began around 07:30 on October 7 when the Tunisian RO/RO ship Ulysse collided with the Cyprus-flagged...
The “РИМ—MОСКВА” (Rome-Moscow) tug
The eight million euro vessel will be deployed in the operations to dismantle nuclear submarines in the Barents Sea
The Company President Duò said: “With this build we strengthen our positioning in the domestic and international harbour and oceanic tug market. We are now focussing on becoming a point of reference.”
It is called РИМ—MОСКВА (Rome-Moscow) and it will be deployed in the operations planned for the dismantling of the nuclear submarines that have been...
Santi – Find the Eagle team
Polish team’s latest mission to find wreck of wartime sub
By Piotr Michalik
The Santi Find the Eagle expedition has set off for the fifth time, on a mission to find the wreck of the famous submarine ORP Orzeł which patrolled under Royal Navy command during the Second World War.
The Orzel (the name means Eagle) went missing presumed lost in the North Sea between 23 May and 8 June 1940. This year’s search will concentrate on an area 100 miles from Scotland and 200 miles...
The U.S. Navy, in partnership with the Army and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, have started the recovery of oil from the overturned World War II German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Kwajalein Atoll. These recovery efforts will ensure mission capability of the U.S. Army Space and Missile...