Recently, foreign media reported that a shipwreck salvage project that has plagued the South Pacific island nation of New Caledonia for many years was recently completed. The Ministry of Transport said at a press conference today that the salvage team of China is carrying out the salvage task this time, which is also the largest international salvage project in the South Pacific sea of China so far.
It is understood that the salvage is a salvage project of the "Parrot" merchant ship. The Parrot is a Maltese container ship with a maximum load of 21,000 tons and can carry more than 2,000 standard containers. In July 2017, it ran aground in an island reef area near New Caledonia in the South Pacific.
Because the shipwreck will release a large amount of rust, the fleshy algae, blue-green algae pads, and black mushroom corals grow rapidly, thus seizing the ecological niche of hard corals, resulting in a reduction in the area of healthy hard corals. The broken shipwreck poses a huge threat to the ecological environment in the surrounding seas.
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In 2018, the Shanghai Salvage Bureau of the Ministry of Transport was authorized by the shipowner to salvage the vessel, which is also the largest international salvage project in the South Pacific sea in China so far. Because the construction site is located on the reef in the open sea in the hinterland of the South Pacific Ocean, the wind and waves are high all year round, and the annual salvage operation window period is only more than 100 days, the technical difficulty is great, the danger coefficient is high, and it is rare in the history of salvage in the world. According to the scene situation, the Shanghai Salvage Bureau formulated a practical salvage plan. In the process of salvage, the new crown pneumonia epidemic was also encountered, and the Shanghai Salvage Bureau overcame many difficulties to realize the change of construction personnel in the form of international charter flights and resume the salvage project in a timely manner.
In September last year, after careful analysis and preparation by the on-site project team, the operation ship team successfully completed the first wreckage salvage operation test. In the following year, after 14 voyages of unremitting efforts, more than 10,000 tons of merchant ship wreckage were salvaged. In early September this year, after a final environmental impact assessment, the Government of New Caledonia confirmed the successful salvage of the Parrot merchant ship.
Under extremely harsh sea conditions and meteorological conditions, the salvage engineering team of the "Parrot" merchant ship of the Shanghai Salvage Bureau successfully completed the salvage task with exquisite salvage technology, and made positive contributions to effectively cleaning the marine environment and protecting the marine ecology of the South Pacific.
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