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Welcome to the Global Salvage Consultancy website - designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of our organisation's capabilities and values. Feel free to explore the site and please contact us if we can be of any help.

Professionals all over the world

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GSC is a truly global provider of salvage and wreck removal expertise, assisting owners, operators and salvage companies in the timely, efficient co-ordination and management of salvage projects and contracts. Our international network of technical specialists deliver practical insight and support the world over.

Latest Involvement

Barge TRIAS

Casualty Name: Barge TRIAS
Brief description of events:
Whilst under tow, the tow line parted during bad weather and sea-state conditions. Subsequently the barge grounded in a nature reserve. Finnish based Salvors Alfons Hàkans were awarded the LOF...

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February

Consultants offer "pool of knowledge"

To read the article published in the magazine International Tug and OSV click here


April

Last GSC Special Casualty Representative leaving New Zealand.

After 182 days, Special Casualty Representative - Mr. Zandee departs from Tauranga. GSC has been involved from the onset of the grounding until the termination of the LOF – SCOPIC contract by providing two SCR's. Salvors Svitzer Salvage B.V. from The Netherlands signed the contract with the Owners of the vessel on the 6th of October 2011, the first day that a GSC SCR attended the vessel. The RENA LOF SCOPIC contract is believed to be the longest SCOPIC case since the introduction in 1999 of this Clause.


June

Salvage Expert engaged in grounded bulk-carrier.

A GSC Salvage Expert was contracted by Underwriters for a grounded bulk-carrier off the coast of Tunisia


July

GSC deploys a Salvage Master for a chemical tanker on fire.

GSC assisted Salvors during the fire on board a Chemical Tanker in the port of Labuan, Malaysia by providing a Salvage Master


September

Busy month for GSC

Chemical Tanker aground in Indonesia: GSC mobilized a Salvage Expert to assist during the refloating operation.

One week later a bulk-carrier grounded in Selat Sunda a GSC Salvage Master was deployed to conduct an Inspection and made his recommendation to the Salvage Company.

Furthermore, the South African based SCR was appointed for a LOF SCOPIC case related to a container vessel on fire in the Indian Ocean


October

GSC setting foot on Japanese ground.

For the first time since its existence, GSC was requested to provide a Salvage Consultant to assist the P&I Club in a grounding case near Omeazaki port in Japan. The vessel ran aground after it was hit by Typhoon no 21 by the end of September and could be classified as a typical "Typhoon Casualty". Several salvage attempts were made by a local salvage company but only the off-loading of the cargo resulted finally in a successful floatation of the casualty.

 

GSC App

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