Emergency salvage responders have had a busy autumn with 10 Lloyd’s Open Form (LOF) contracts reported in the past two months.
Among the casualties were two product tankers that in separate incidents grounded in the River Scheldt. The 107,000-dwt Maria Bottiglieri (built 2012) grounded on 26 October. An LOF contract was immediately awarded to Dutch salvor Multraship Towage & Salvage and Belgium’s URS.
