Removal of wrecks often originate from the need to ensure safe navigation, facilitate global trade and the environmental objective to keep our seas clean. SMIT provides the full range of required services to facilitate this and has demonstrated its capabilities in many challenging situations, such as but not limited to water depth, vessel type or condition, geographical location, political climate, regulatory environment, funding, client, etc.
These elements of complex wreck removals do not only require skills, experience and heavy assets, but particularly ingenuity, engineering capabilities and financial stamina to provide a total solution and certainty of cost to the client.
SMIT Salvage has the option of calling upon the expertise and resources of the entire Boskalis group having unparalleled in-house knowledge and assets available well positioning us to take up the most challenging projects.
This, combined with our unmatched ability to manage complexities, means that you can rely on us for an efficient turnkey solution that will fit all of your requirements, from feasibility studies and environmental impact surveys to execution and operational services. We commit to delivering the best possible result that is both cost-effective and sustainable to our client.
SMIT Salvage is constantly exploring new methods for wreck removal, pollutant and cargo recovery and technologies for advanced deep-water recovery work, in order to mitigate environmental threats wherever possible.
Project highlights
Wreck removal in the North Sea
To ensure safe navigation, SMIT Salvage was awarded the contract for the removal of two ship wrecks in the Dutch section of the North Sea by Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in January 2013. The project was successfully completed in July 2013.
Baltic Ace wreck removal
SMIT and a partner successfully completed the salvage of the car carrier Baltic Ace in the North Sea.
The project started in April 2014 by removing 460,000 liters of fuel oil from the wreck. The second phase of the project consisted of the removal and controlled dismantling of the entire wreck and its cargo.
JBB Derong 19
Salvage of the 108-meter long Chinese trailing suction hopper dredger JBB Derong 19. The vessel had capsized in a busy shipping lane but had not sunk.
Salvage Jack-up platform Sep Orion
After the successful removal of diesel oil from the grounded jack-up work platform SEP Orion at Sao Luis, Brazil. SMIT Salvage was also awarded the wreck removal contract
