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A dive survey to conduct an external visual assessment of the Rena’s sunken stern section and its cargo has now been completed. Early indications from the surveys suggest that of the 36 remaining containers in the stern section carrying known contaminants, many have broken up and their contents have escaped since the vessel broke in [...]
Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) has welcomed the guilty plea by Daina Shipping Co., the registered owners of the Rena, to a charge under the Resource Management Act relating to the discharge of harmful substances following the grounding of the ship in October 2011. Daina Shipping was today fined $300,000 in the Tauranga District Court on [...]
Underwater steel cutting continues with a team of five divers onboard the Rena each day. The underwater work is a particularly difficult and potentially dangerous phase of the Rena wreck reduction. Divers need to navigate numerous underwater obstacles just to get into a position to cut steel This week has seen the Resolve crane barge [...]
An independent review of the response by Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) to the grounding of the Rena on Astrolabe Reef off the coast of Tauranga on 5 October 2011 will be conducted by former Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Murdoch. The review will examine the MNZ response to the Rena incident and establish [...]
Steel removal from the Rena wreck continues with daily helicopter operations using McDermott Aviation Bell 214 heavy lift helicopter. The total steel weight landed ashore is now more than 650 tonnes. Salvage (Resolve Salvage & Fire) The Salvage Master for Resolve Salvage and Fire, Francis Leckey, said that positive helicopter progress now allows Resolve to [...]
This week teams have recovered 1000 containers from the wreck of the Rena. Good progress continues to be made reducing the bow section – with in excess of 140 tonnes of steel removed over the last week. The total combined weight of steel removed is now approximately 575 tonnes. The RMG 280 crane barge, which [...]
Progress was made on Rena this week, despite salvage operations being suspended for two days due to high winds and swells. The project remains on schedule. The total combined weight of steel removed is now approximately 430 tonnes, which is more than 20 per cent of the total weight to be removed. The RMG 280 [...]
This week saw the first sections cut and removed from the fore section of the Rena, with the Bell 214 heavy-lift helicopter completing 14 separate lifts to the barge Kapua. The barge made its first landing in Tauranga yesterday with an estimated 40 tonnes of steel, which included deck equipment and pieces of winches from [...]
Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) continues to liaise with US salvors Resolve, appointed by the Rena’s owners and insurers to undertake wreck removal work. Preparatory work is being carried out on the bow before sections can begin to be removed. The Braemar Howell’s clean-up team expressed satisfaction to have a “window” in which to resume marine [...]
American company Resolve has been selected for reducing the size of the bow of Rena, a 236-metre-long Liberian-flagged cargo vessel, which ran aground on Astrolabe reef on October 5 last year, and broke up in January this year. The announcement on the appointment was made by Konstantinos Zacharatos, on behalf of the Rena’s Greece based [...]
