Titan Maritime redelivers “APL Panama” to owners

Titan Maritime redelivers “APL Panama” to owners

Titan Maritime redelivers “APL Panama” to owners

   Marine salvage company Titan Maritime LLC, returned March 12 the 4,038-TEU containership “APL Panama” to its owners Mare Britannicum Schiffahrtsges Mbh & Co., after successfully freeing the ship from a sandbar near Ensenada, Mexico.
   The 874-foot vessel ran aground Dec. 25 with about 2,000 containers aboard, but salvage crews were unable to dislodge the vessel until they tried a new tactic at the end of February — to dredge a channel allowing seawater to float the vessel.
   Titan, acquired by Crowley Maritime Corp. in September, said the operation was one of the largest refloatings of a laden containership ever undertaken.
   Included in the mobilization were 20 truckloads of salvage gear, five 300-ton hydraulic pullers, seven tugboats with a combined 500 tons of bollard pull, a flat deck barge upon which the pullers were mounted, three crawler stick cranes of varying sizes, a SkyCrane helicopter and a dredge.