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With the delivery yesterday of one more large section from the ’Tricolor’ wreckage to the scrap site in Zeebrugge, Belgium, all large sections have been removed from the seabed. Up until today the salvage team has removed in excess of 8.500 tons of debris.

The team will continue its work on the wreckage with the large grab on ’Taklift 4’, which they temporarily detached for the lifting of the last large section of approximately 500 tons. This weekend the grab will be re-attached to ’Taklift 4’ in Zeebrugge.

For the remainder of the operation ’Taklift 4’ will have to remove relatively smaller parts of the vessel and its cargo, ranging from parts of the car decks, hull sideplates and cars which lay scattered around the area.

All activities are currently performed as scheduled. Depending on weather conditions, the work will be finished in September 2004.

The salvage of the TRICOLOR is being carried out by the ’Combinatie Berging Tricolor’, a consortium consisting of: SMIT Salvage B.V., Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors N.V., URS Salvage & Maritime Contracting N.V., and Multraship Salvage B.V. The salvage contract was awarded to the consortium by Wilh. Wilhelmsen and Gard Services.

For more details please contact:
Combinatie Berging Tricolor
Lars Walder
Public Relations Manager CBT
Tel: +31 (0) 10 454 92 74
Mobile: +31 (0) 6 53 43 27 65
Mail: l.walder@smit.com
Internet: www.tricolorsalvage.com