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MV Rena Salvage to Start Tomorrow
Fort Lauderdale based, Resolve Marine Group will commence salvage operations on the sunken cargo ship MV Rena "tomorrow', the firm's representative Martha Lord told APP today.
The vessel sank after running aground on the Astrolabe Reef near the port of Tauranga, New Zealand on October 5 last year with the country's Environment minister, Nick Smith, calling it their "most significant maritime environmental disaster."
The ship was reported to have been carrying 1,368 containers, of which eight contained hazardous materials, and 1,700 tonnes of heavy fuel oil and 200 tonnes of marine diesel fuel.
The ship had split in two in January of this year during a storm submerging the stern.
Lord said further information on the new salvage could not be given because of a confidentiality agreement with the ship's owners.
Ship & Bunker reported in June that the first stage of the salvage operations involving the salvage companies Svitzer and Smit and Braemar Howells had finished a month ahead of schedule, with all cargo now reported to have been recovered and the oil removed from the wreck.
The MV Rena was a 3,351 TEU Panamax container ship owned by the Greek shipping company Costamare Inc.
