FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 20, 2011 Contact: Debra Colbert, 301/332-0813; daccomm@aol.com Alexandria, VA – On June 13, 2011, Donjon-SMIT, LLC, was notified that a client vessel was aground in the Mississippi River just above Cubit’s Gap, about 10 miles below Venice, Louisiana. Traffic on the Mississippi was not impeded by the grounded vessel. Donjon-SMIT, [...]
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DONJON-SMIT, responds to, refloats grounded tanker in the Mississippi River
Monday, June 20th, 2011DONJON-SMIT ANNOUNCES NEW, INNOVATIVE SALVAGE, LIGHTERING & MARINE FIREFIGHTING PACKAGE
Monday, July 19th, 2010NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 19, 2010 Contact: Debra Colbert, Donjon-SMIT, 301/565-5329; daccomm@aol.com Click here for PDF version Alexandria, VA — Donjon-SMIT, LLC’s Board of Directors has announced that its new salvage, lightering and marine firefighting (SMFF) services package is now complete and includes an innovative new Coast Guard-approved and International Group of P&I [...]
DONJON-SMIT Assists SMIT in Deep Sea Horizon Firefighting
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Donjon-SMIT is providing personnel to assist one of its parent companies, SMIT Americas, in the firefighting efforts onboard the MODU Deep Sea Horizon.
DONJON-SMIT, LLC PROVIDES EMERGENCY TOWING ASSISTANCE TO VESSEL SOUTH OF NANTUCKET
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 27, 2010 Contact: Debra Colbert, Donjon-SMIT, 301/565-5329; daccomm@aol.com Alexandria, VA—On Monday, January 18, 2010, Donjon-SMIT, LLC, an OPA-90 Alliance, was notified by QI Gallagher Marine Services that a vessel required emergency towing assistance. The Tavricheski Bridge, managed by UNICOM Ship Management, had broken a main engine camshaft and lost [...]
Donjon-SMIT personnel assist in the salvage of the M/V Fedra
Monday, June 15th, 2009On October 10, 2008, during a significant storm, the M/V Fedra grounded and subsequently sank off the eastern side of Europa Point in Gibraltar in approximately 20 feet of water. As a result of the grounding and pounding of the vessel due to sea conditions, the vessel separated in two pieces at the forward end [...]
What Is Marine Salvage?
Friday, March 20th, 2009From Wikipedia: “Marine salvage is the process of rescuing a ship, its cargo, or other property from peril. Salvage encompasses rescue towing, refloating a sunken or grounded vessel, or patching or repairing a ship. Today the protection of the environment from cargoes such as oil or other contaminants is often considered a high priority. “Salvors” [...]
Welcome to DONJON-SMIT
Friday, March 13th, 2009DONJON-SMIT is a unique provider of Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA-90) maritime emergency response services in which the nearly 200 years of corporate expertise of DONJON and SMIT is combined. The joint venture provides marine salvage, lightering and firefighting services for compliance and response related to OPA-90 requirements. We are one of the first [...]