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Mammoet Salvage
now provides emergency
response services
Mammoet Salvage tackles major challenges. After building up a strong position
in wet salvage over the past three years, Mammoet’s salvage division is
now also providing dry salvage services, better known as “emergency
response services”. This means that Mammoet Salvage can now offer a full
range of salvage services worldwide, with all the synergy benefits associated
with being a subsidiary of the worldwide leader in heavy lifting and transport.
In August 2009, Mammoet Salvage rendered
salvage services and extinguished
the fire on a 70,246 dwt product tanker.
The casualty was carrying 58,000 tons of
naphtha when it got fire after a collision
with another vessel in the Strait of
Malacca. A salvage team consisting of
firefighting experts made their way to the
casualty and air freight containers with
specialist salvage and fire fighting equipment
were shipped from the Netherlands
and reached their destination within 24
hours. Fokko Ringersma, Managing
Director of Mammoet Salvage, explained
why that was essential: “Emergency
response is an activity where every
second counts. It is essential that both our
salvage crew and their equipment arrive
on site as soon as possible. It is good to
see that after all our efforts, to build an
organization which can respond instantly
are paying off.”
“When every
second counts”
Wide range
Ringersma continued: “Partly due to the
fast response and good organization, the
salvage operation went well. This operation
required the full range of emergency
response activities. Fire fighting, refloating
and eventually an Ship to Ship transfer of
the remaining cargo to another vessel
using special pumps and portable inert
gas generators.
In addition a full range of oil spill response
equipment was mobilized as a precaution
to deal with any environmental incidents.
All in all, this was an operation covering
many aspects of salvage, which Mammoet
Salvage proofed capable of. We are certainly
on the right track to establish our
reputation as a serious provider of emergency
response operations.”
Complex challenges
Even before this operation, Mammoet
Salvage had undertaken several successful
LOCATION: STRAITS OF MALACCA, 20 MILES
FROM PORT DICKSON, MALAYSIA
JOB: SALVAGE OPERATION
CHALLENGE: EXTINGUISHING THE FIRE AND
STABILIZING THE SHIP BEFORE FUEL AND
CARGO MIGHT SPILL INTO THE SEA
emergency response jobs, but this
was the first project of this scale
and complexity. Major challenges,
as well as wet salvage and wreck
recovery, are the specialty of
Mammoet Salvage. In that sector,
Mammoet Salvage has built up a
name as an expert and innovative
partner which has contributed new
forms of cooperation as well as
groundbreaking technology to the
industry. Mammoet Salvage tackles
a wide range of projects, but has a
preference for technically complex
salvage operations. Ringersma
explained: “We try to distinguish
ourselves with projects which
demand sophisticated technical
solutions. The more complex, the
better. That’s what we are
really interested in.” For technical
support they can also call upon the
large engineering department of the
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