SVITZER Salvage B.V. is the salvage division of the SVITZER Group and in turn a member of the A.P. Moller Group.

In SVITZER Salvage B.V., the salvage experience and knowledge of many sources are combined. The oldest section of the company, through the SVITZER Harbour Towage operations in Amsterdam, originates back to 1807 with the first (inland waterways) salvage having been done as early as 1817.

With the set-up of SVITZER Group in 2001 the Group salvage resources have been concentrated in SVITZER Salvage B.V. with its HQ in IJmuiden, The Netherlands. This combines the salvage experience, knowledge and resources of:

Svitzer, established as a salvage company in Denmark in 1833, having operated worldwide and one of the founding fathers of the ISU, being engaged amongst others in the major wreck clearance project in the 1950s of the Suez Canal on instructions of the UN. This is the oldest salvage company still in existence.

Wijsmuller Salvage B.V., a company started in 1906 in The Netherlands, which specialized in ocean towing and salvage.

Roda Bolaget of Sweden, which had the familiar Neptune salvage company of Sweden as its predecessor. Neptune was also engaged in salvage with tugs on station worldwide and is amongst others the salvor of the 300 year old war ship WASA, which in the 1960's was floated into a drydock on its own keel after having been raised from the seabed she sank to on her maiden voyage off Stockholm in 1628.

Cory Towage in the U.K., a combination of a number of towage companies in the U.K. and Canada.

Perdana Salvage Pte. Ltd. of Singapore, which was formed by part management of SALVINDO of Singapore, during the end 1980-ies and 1990-ies a very active salvage company in Singapore and the surroundings.

Gebr. Goedkoop, now Wijsmuller Harbour Towage Amsterdam, which was one of the founding companies of Mammoet heavy lift. Goedkoop, through its subsidiary BTS and has been heavily engaged in inland waterways salvage. Goedkoop’s predecessor was the company established in 1807 and having done its first salvage operation in 1817.

SvitzerWijsmuller Salvage B.V. set-up
The headoffice of SVITZER Salvage B.V. is based in IJmuiden, The Netherlands, which is the knowledge centre of the division. In the regions, SVITZER Salvage B.V. has its own set-ups with experienced salvage personnel and equipment. These regional offices are:

• Singapore (Wijsmuller-Perdana Salvage Pte. Ltd. Indonesia)
• Brazil (Rio de Janeiro/Macae)
• USA (Miami)
• Denmark (SVITZER, Copenhagen)
• Greece (SvitzerWijsmuller Salvage B.V. Hellenic Office, Athens)
• South Africa (wat is de officiele title)
• Sweden (Roda Bolaget, Gothenburg)
• South Korea (SvitzerWijsmuller Salvage B.V. Korea Inc., Seoul)

These offices - including salvage staff and warehouses - are commercially and operationally supported by the Headoffice in IJmuiden, The Netherlands. This set-up enables SVITZER Salvage B.V. to work globally by acting locally.

The above allows us to be on any specific site-of-operations with experienced staff and the necessary salvage-equipment from the immediate area quickly worldwide.

SVITZER Group resources
Apart from the own offices of SVITZER Salvage B.V. it can of course use the resources of the SVITZER Group. This organisation is more regionally centralised with the Headoffice in Copenhagen with each regional office controlling the operational offices in its specific region. The following regional offices are active:

• Europe-Mediterranean - IJmuiden (The Netherlands)
• UK-Canada – Tees (UK)
• Baltic - Gothenburg (Sweden)
• Middle East - Dubai (UAE)
• Asia/Pacific - Singapore
• Africa - Capetown (South Africa)
• (North) Americas – Miami (USA)
• (South) Americas - Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)

SVITZER operates port and terminal tugs in 35 countries worldwide.

SVITZER, as far as tugs are concerned, has over 300 vessels, including ocean going tugs. At the moment a new building program is being executed, which consists of over 30 new tugs in the past year and next years.

A.P. Moller-Maersk resources and support
Also the vast resources of the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group can be called upon. This consists of offices in over 125 countries, while the ocean going and worldwide operating tug fleet of Maersk Supply (over 50 tugs with a bollardpull of up to 250 ton) can be engaged in salvage-operations.

Of course the wealth of knowledge and experience in shipping itself can be used by SVITZER Salvage B.V..

SVITZER Salvage partners
On top of that SVITZER Salvage B.V. has invested in and/or assisted local partners to be able to execute salvage operations.