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Assistance & Salvage services
Widely-recognised expertise in marine assistance & salvage for over 30 years !
Professionals based permanently in Le Havre.
Experienced in all the latest assistance techniques, they are:
- in permanent contact with emergency response stations,
- permanently on call to provide support to local crews,
- undergo continuous training in the co-ordination of special operations.
If necessary, they can set up a crisis centre, in liaison with all the different partners involved, in order to deploy the resources needed for an assistance operation.
Management Chart for conducting a major assistance operation.
Specialised assistance teams are mobilised depending on the nature of the operation
Always ready to respond, these teams are made up of:
- Professional salvage and assistance personnel: salvage masters, salvage officers, salvage engineers, etc.
- Naval architects, experts in structural analysis and computing for vessels in distress.
The teams at Les Abeilles International have access to additional resources: floating cranes, barges, lightering vessels, underwater welders, etc.
In fact, for some operations, it may be necessary to discharge part of the cargo (solid or liquid) in often very bad weather conditions or in inaccessible places, i.e. not in port (on a beach, at sea or in a sheltered bay, etc.). It may then be possible to help the vessel regain sufficient buoyancy and thus use Les Abeilles International tugs to refloat it and tow it away. Barges must be chartered to discharge containers, for example, or small oil tankers (lightering vessels) to perform « ship to ship transfer or STS ». We may also need to call on underwater welders to temporarily repair a hole below the waterline so that we can use our high-speed pumps to pump out the flooded area.
Personnel are given continuous training in both the theory and practice of salvage and assistance. This training includes courses on how to handle salvage equipment, such as bilge pumps, electric generators and inert gas generators, etc. Furthermore, the Salvage Master systematically draws conclusions based on actual cases that have been dealt with.
Les Abeilles International possesses the legal and administrative competencies needed to provide immediate assistance. Speed is of the essence especially when the risk of pollution is often only a matter of minutes.
The company co-ordinates all salvage operation resources and personnel to ensure the best outcome possible.
24 hour Salvage and Assistance Hotline:
+33 (0)2 35 19 77 85.