Salvage

JANUARY 2, 2013 —  Shell reports that a team of five salvage experts boarded the grounded drilling unit Kulluk earlier today to conduct a structural assessment to be used to finalize salvage plans, currently being developed by the Kulluk Tow Incident Unified Command. The five-member ...

JANUARY 2, 2013 — The Shell mobile conical drilling unit Kulluk is stable after running aground New Year's Eve near Kodiak, Alaska, following failed attempts to tow the vessel in a fierce storm. "Following the U.S. Coast Guard reconnaissance flight earlier today, the Kulluk is upright and rocking with a slow, but stable motion," Shell ...

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 — Fort Lauderdale, Fla., based Resolve Salvage & Fire reports first 600 tons of steel from the bow section of the Rena wreck off Tauranga, New Zealand. This comes after six weeks of intensive operations in often challenging conditions. Resolve has been removing the wreck piece by piece using helicopter ...

JULY 24, 2012 — Harvey, La., based Inland Salvage Inc. (ISI) reports that it has completed the successful fuel removal, partial dismantlement and refloating of a stranded 2,500 ton posted drill barge. The drill barge had suffered side shell damage and loss of watertight integrity due to contact with a support barge in rough seas. ...

JULY 5, 2012 — Fincantieri has received a contract for the construction of 30 steel caissons that will be used in the Costa Concordia salvage operation. The contract, described as "worth tens of millions of euros" to the Italian shipbuilder, will see the caissons built at a number of Fincantieri shipyards. The 30 ca ...

May 23, 2012—Salvors continue to work to remove containers, pieces of hatch covers and debris from the bow section of the containership M/V Rena, which struck Astrolabe Reef off of Tauranga, New Zealand, on October 5, 2011. ...

MAY 18, 2012—With Costa Concordia Emergency Commissioner Franco Gabrielli in attendance, Costa Crociere S.p.A. and Italo-American consortium Titan-Micoperi, the winner of the tender tasked with performing the work, presented their plan to remove the wreck of Costa Concordia from the coast of Giglio Island. Following a conference conv ...

Donjon Marine has successfully refloat the 277-foot ex-Staten Island, N.Y. car ferry Gov. Herbert H. Lehman. The former ferry sank in the Hudson River while in layup in Newburg, N.Y., and Donjon was awarded the contract to refloat it in late March 2012 in a competitive bidding process. After almost four weeks of patchi ...