Ardent and Ardentia Team Up

Maritime services firm, Ardent and Ardentia Marine, a Spanish salvage, engineering and commercial diving company, have formally partnered for future operations.

The cooperation agreement was signed in June this year.

To remind, In May, 2015, Svitzer Salvage, a part of the Maersk Group, and Titan Salvage, under the Crowley Group, merged to form Ardent.

“Through this Ardentia’s strong capabilities, we are able to provide prompt actions to any emergency response and wreck removal operations in the area with the dedicated personnel and equipment,” said Oliver Timofei, Ardent’s director of emergency response.

“We have not failed a single job since our company’s formation in 2009,” said Jose Prat, technical director and naval architect from Ardentia Marine.

Ardentia has been the emergency response and underwater services provider for the Spanish Coast Guard since 2009, and has intervened in nearly 100 operations with marine casualty control, fuel and bunker removal, refloating and wreck removal.

“With this cooperation, Ardent is able to provide a two-tier response network of providing a joint approach between the two companies. We can also provide tailor-made preparedness services for governments and ship-owners,” Timofei added.

Prior to the cooperation, both companies had jointly worked on the “Oleg Naydenov” to remove oil from the submerged fishing trawler at 2.7 km underwater with remote operated vehicles in 2015.

Ardentia has also completed the fuel and bunker removal of the “M/T Woodford” at 85m underwater in 2012, and the wreck removal of the trawler, “Santa Ana” in Cabo Peñas, Spain.