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salvaging companies led by Smit Salvaging BV, a daughter company of

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MV Tricolor

The consortium was set up to remove the wreck of the

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, a

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registered

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operated by

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. The consortium consisted of Smit Salvage BV, Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors NV, URS Salvage & Marine Contracting NV and Multraship Salvage BV. The contract for the wreck-removal with this consortium was signed on 11 April 2003.Press release of Wilh. Wilhelmsen Group
Tricolor wreck-removal contract signed today
, 11 April 2003. Visited 12 February 2012 Starting in July 2003, the operation was declared complete on October 27, 2004. The salvage method included a

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-encrusted cutting wire used to slice the wreck into nine sections of 3000

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each. This technique was similar to one Smit had used in salvaging the

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.Smit International websit
Summary of project MV Tricolor
, visited 12 February 2012 CBT received the contract to remove the wreck from the (busy) area where she was lying, which was approximately 20 miles north of the French coast, inside the French Exclusive economic zone and

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. The contract with the operator of the MV Tricilor was signed on 11 April 2003.

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