MAY 1, 2017 — Salvage and wreck removing firm, Ardent, celebrates its second birthday immediately.
In May, 2015, Svitzer Salvage, part of the Maersk Group, and Titan Salvage, part of the Crowley Holdings Inc., merged to kind Ardent. The firm continues be 50 p.c owned by Svitzer (Maersk) and 50 p.c owned by Crowley.
Ardent maintains a zero misplaced time incident report since its inception.
“Despite the initial focus on implementing the merger and challenging market conditions Ardent has successfully won and executed 125 contracts over the last 2 years” mentioned Ardent CEO Peter Pietka. “Salvage operations are inherently risk filled and completing 125 contracts without a single lost time incident is a testament to the professionalism of our teams.”
Ardent studies that it’s experiencing vital business momentum with a number of notable contract wins.
In the final month, Ardent groups have accomplished excessive profile Emergency Response contracts on 4 continents.
In late April, 2017, Ardent signed for the removing of the sunken Fluvius Tamar vessel from the English Channel, the biggest wreck removing contract awarded thus far in 2017.
Ardent has reorganized its enterprise into two largely “self-sustained” enterprise pillars; the Emergency Management pillar (overlaying Emergency Preparedness and Response), and the Projects pillar (overlaying Wreck Removal, Offshore Decommissioning and Subsea Services).
Oliver Timofei is the Director of Emergency Management and Jon Minshall has been appointed because the Director of Projects.
“The new structure is intended to ensure that we for both business areas have ‘fit-for-purpose’ processes, resources and culture which will enable us to serve the respective customer segments even better than today,” defined Pietka.
The new construction additionally intends to safe that Ardent can retain its concentrate on its unique core enterprise whereas more and more providing adjoining providers – not least inside an offshore context.
“Whereas we have done well in the market place it is also true that over the past two years, a tremendous amount of focus has gone into internal issues related to the merger implementation and the recent organizational restructuring. We look forward to the next stage,” mentioned Pietka.
Salvage and wreck removing firm, Ardent responds to the high-profiled Caribbean Fantasy fireplace in 2016.
U.S. Coast Guard picture