With conditions in the international marine salvage industry remaining challenging, orders for purpose-built salvage tugs have been somewhat scarce in recent years. Today, though, Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group company based in Yokohama, today held a christening and launch ceremony for a new salvage tug currently being built for Nippon Salvage Co., Ltd.
The ceremony took place at the Enoura Plant of MHI’s Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works in...
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FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago.
In this week’s edition from the November 1984 issue, we take a look at the tumultuous industry of marine salvage.
Marine salvage
You are informed of the emergency late on a Friday night when the rest of the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/a-look-into-marine-salvage-in-the-80s
A 410-foot vessel carrying a cargo that included lithium-ion batteries was today safely moored in Broad Harbor, Alaska, after a response that began when it reported a cargo hold fire at 4.40 a.m., Thursday, December 28, as it was approximately 225 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
The vessel, the 13,633 dwt , 2012-built Panamanian flag general cargo ship Genius Star XI, is operated by Wisdom Marine Lines SA of Taiwan,
On being alerted of the cargo hold fire, which was contained but then...
An incident that began on October 4 with the rescue of 12 people from a vessel that grounded half a mile south of the Cyril E. King airport in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands during Tropical Storm Phillippe, has reached a successful conclusion. The vessel, the 195-foot Vanuatu-flagged RO/RO cargo vessel Bonnie G, originally delivered in 1981 as an OSV, has been refloated and relocated. It is now safely moored at the Crown Bay Sandfill dock in St. Thomas.
That came after a 26-day saga played out...
https://www.marinelog.com/video/video-bonnie-g-refloated-and-relocated/
The response to the Bonnie G grounding incident is making progress off Cyril E. King Airport, in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands with fuel removal starting. The 195-foot Vanuatu-flagged RO/RO cargo vessel, originally delivered in 1981 as an OSV and managed by West Palm Beach, Fla., based MMS Americas LLC., grounded there October 4 during Tropical Storm Philippe, when all 12 people on board had to be rescued.
Since then, response efforts have been ongoing and, on Sunday, the Harvey Gulf...
https://www.marinelog.com/legal/environment/salvage/video-bonnie-g-fuel-removal-gets-underway/
U.S. Coast Guard Southeast reports that crews responding to the Bonnie G grounding incident conducted successful salvage and dive operations over this past weekend off Cyril E. King Airport, in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
The 195-foot Vanuatu-flagged RO/RO cargo vessel, originally delivered in 1981 as an OSV and managed by West Palm Beach, Fla., based MMS Americas LLC., grounded there October 4 during Tropical Storm Philippe, when all 12 people on board had to be rescued.
Over the weekend,...
https://www.marinelog.com/legal/environment/salvage/bonnie-g-grounding-response-continues/
As the situation surrounding the fire-stricken car carrier Fremantle Highway continues to be closely […]
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The International Salvage Union (ISU) has reported a sharp decline in revenue for international salvage companies in 2022, as the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic presented significant challenges for…
https://gcaptain.com/salvage-industry-saw-revenue-plummet-in-2022-amid-covid-19-challenges/
The operation to raise both sections of the OS 35 shipwreck out of the water off Gibraltar was successfully completed this week, with the two sections of the hull now securely on…
https://gcaptain.com/os-35-shipwreck-lifted-from-gibraltar-waters/
The Captain of the Port in Gibraltar has received a report about the damage to the OS 35 shipwreck caused by recent storms. The damage to the accommodation block and…
https://gcaptain.com/os-35-shipwreck-survives-winter-storms/