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Emergency logistics services help prevent environmental disaster

Emergency logistics provider Evolution Time Critical is facilitating rapid deliveries of vital parts for global marine salvage company Titan Salvage for urgent operations at sea.

Critical marine salvage operations have been able to proceed on schedule due to emergency logistics support from Evolution Time Critical, avoiding the risk of an oil spill at sea and saving insurers millions in damage repairs. The company recently facilitated urgent deliveries of vital parts and equipment to Taiwan and Dubai in order to help its customer Titan Salvage rescue a sinking ship and prevent an explosion aboard a disabled ship carrying highly volatile liquids. The deliveries required expert knowledge of handling and packing dangerous goods together with a close understanding of international customs practices and rapid co-ordination of flights.

“When a ship sinks, the effect on the environment can be devastating, as there is a real risk of the oil contained onboard floating to the surface,” explains Brad Brennan, managing director, Evolution Time Critical. “Aside from untold damage to the local ecosystem, the financial impact of oil spillages can also be very severe. One recent clean-up operation cost insurers over four billion Euros. By ensuring that Titan received the equipment it needed on time, the recovery operation was able to go ahead as planned and the ship wreck was successfully salvaged.”

Evolution arranged for an urgent shipment of a displacement kit and engines containing hazardous materials from Newhaven to Taiwan, so that Titan could place a displacement bag inside the sinking ship and inflate it, keeping the ship afloat.

Titan also recently called upon Evolution’s services to arrange emergency transport for a nitrogen generator from Newhaven to Dubai. The generator was required to ‘inert’ highly volatile liquids being removed from a disabled ship before they came into contact with oxygen, which could have caused an explosion powerful enough to cause significant damage to the ship and cost millions in repairs. The shipment was to fly on a scheduled aircraft, but was too large to pass through conventional cargo x-ray machines. Evolution submitted the shipment for a comprehensive inspection using sniffer dogs (RASCO), to allow it to pass strict aviation security checks.

“Marine operators are tasked with drawing an appropriate balance between the cost of keeping a significant spare parts inventory onboard, against the capital saving of centralised spare parts and the inevitable delays when a component is required to get a vessel back to sea,” continues Brennan. “With emergency logistics able to deliver anywhere in the world in exceptionally short timescales, the most efficient compromise moves dramatically towards the reduced inventory and its substantial capital and payload savings.”

  

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