In mid-February MV Feruz, a specialist ferry for railway wagons, was one of several vessels which got into difficulties in a heavy storm in the Black Sea. The master demonstrated impressive seamanship by steering her into a small, narrow (outside) swimming pool of an aqua park, close to the port of Samsun in Turkey. Mammoet Salvage, jointly with Iskes Towage & Salvage tugs from IJmuiden signed a LOF salvage agreement on the rail ferry Feruz to provide emergency response services to stabilize the vessel and prevent further damage to the vessel and aqua park.

SYDNEY — Fire extinguishers, batteries and other potential threats to the environment are now being removed from the wreckage of the MV Miner that sits on the shores of Scatarie Island. The provincial government hired Dutch salvage company Mammoet Salvage to begin the latest operation on board the vessel, which broke free of a tow line last month while being hauled to a European scrapyard.