About United Salvage

United Salvage provides comprehensive inshore and offshore emergency marine response services throughout Australasia, the South Pacific, the United Kingdom, Europe and the Atlantic. United Salvage, with bases in Australia, the South Pacific and the United Kingdom, assists with shipping casualties and maritime environmental incidents.

Its successful track record, established over the last few decades, has made United Salvage one of the leading international salvors. Services include:

• Casualty refloating
• Damage control
• Underwater damage survey and repair
• Pollution control
• Ocean rescue and towage
• Wreck removal
• Underwater search and recovery
• Cargo stabilisation and lightening
• Survey and repair
• Fuel bunker draining and removal
• Fire fighting
• Controlled scuttling
• Contingency planning with regulatory authorities

United Salvage's significant salvage expertise is provided across the full spectrum of vessel type - general cargo ships, bulk carriers, fishing vessels, container ships, tankers, ro-ro vessels, car carriers, passenger liners, barges, work boats and ferries.

United Salvage is owned and managed by Adsteam Marine Limited.

Australasia and the South Pacific

In Australasia and the South Pacific, United Salvage is the largest and most experienced maritime salvage company, covering the 17,000 kilometre coastline of Australia and shipping lanes in the geographically vast area of Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Zealand. Regional coverage includes the intensely sensitive and highly vulnerable areas of Torres Strait, the Louisiade Archipelago, the Great Barrier Reef and Bass Strait.
The island nations of the South Pacific require salvage operations to be undertaken by locally registered companies. To this end, United Salvage has operating companies in Papua New Guinea - Pacific Towing (PNG) Ltd, Vanuatu - Marine Pacific (Vanuatu) Ltd and Fiji - South Sea Towage.

UK, Europe and the Atlantic

The UK arm of United Salvage can respond to salvage situations within the United Kingdom, Europe and the Atlantic. It has developed salvage co-operation agreements with other towage companies both within the UK and abroad. As well, United Salvage has entered into a preferential Channel Operations Agreement with French company Les Abeilles International to provide effective emergency response within the English Channel and Dover Strait region.