Following a four-month competitive tender process, Shanghai Salvage Company (SSC) has been chosen to remove the Kea Trader boxship from a rock reef near New Caledonia in the south Pacific.
boxship from a rock reef near New Caledonia in the south Pacific.SSC expects to have resources on site within 30 days prior to an exchange of responsibilities with Ardent, the salvor which is presently undertaking cargo removal and anti-pollution operations.
A 2,194 teu capacity containership, the Kea Trader was delivered to Lomar Shipping in January 2017. It had been sailing from Papeete, in French Polynesia, to Nouméa in New Caledonia, loaded with 756 container units and a further 26 flat-racks, when it ran aground on July 12.
