Global Salvage Consultancy

Brief description of events: Casualty lost rudder in gale force conditions and required tug assistance. Tug MAHANUARA managed to make the towing connection and the casualty was towed to Kaohsiung for repairs.

Brief description of events: Casualty ran aground and smashed against Europa Point, the southernmost tip of Gibraltar following severe gale force winds measuring 12 on the Beaufort scale.

 Brief description of events: Casualty lost rudder in gale force conditions and required tug assistance. Tug MAHANUARA managed to make the towing connection and the casualty was towed to Kaohsiung for repairs.

Brief description of events: The Casualty ran aground whilst passing the deep-water passage east of Samsoe in the Great Belt. Loaded with 68979 tons of potash divided over seven holds. Salvors decided to conduct a STS operation and off loaded approximately 10.000 tons before the casualty could be refloated.

Brief description of events: The casualty, a chemical / oil tanker, collided with the container vessel TS HONG KONG approximately 9 Nautical miles off the fishing port Nan-Liao (Taiwan). Three years later, in 2008, Framo, a Norwegian pump manufacturer, was contracted to remove the cargo from the wreck at a water depth of 72 meters.

Brief description of events: Vessel was deployed on a ferry service between islands of the Azores until it was moved to Lisbon in 1999 where the accommodation and bridge interior of the ship except for the engine room was largely scrapped as the owner was planning to convert it into a cruise ship. Subsequently the remaining casco went into lay-up status. Salvage Company Multraship based in Terneuzen, The Netherlands were contracted to remove the wreck by means of wreck grabbing in the spring of 2010