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GREEK salvage group TSAVLIRIS appears to have pulled off a coup in the Baltic, successfully refloating the bulk carrier "GOLDEN SKY" which ran hard aground five miles off Ventspils in January.

S/T "MEGAS ALEXANDROS" has its 25th anniversary been under TSAVLIRIS' management since 1981.

Mr. Xenophon P. Constantinidis after 27 years of working with TSAVLIRIS retired from the company in November 2006.

Bulk carrier incidents have provided the lion's share of the work in early summer for the Tsavliris Salvage Group, the leading international emergency contractor.

The four founding members (AUSMEPA-Australia, CYMEPA-Cyprus, HELMEPA-Greece and TURMEPA-Turkey) of the International Marine Environment Protection Association-INTERMEPA June 6 2006 signed the legal document of the Association, which within the next days is expected to make Intermepa a legal entity by decision of the Greek Courts.

In our constant effort to support educational programs and debates on serious issues related to the shipping industry; TSAVLIRIS SALVAGE GROUP were supporters of the ISM event hosted by the London Shipping Law center, where George A. Tsavliris is an active member of the steering committee

The Institute of chartered shipbrokers, Greek branch, which has Nicholas A. Tsavliris as its chairman, Mr. George A. Tsavliris and Mr. Andreas A. Tsavliris are also fellows of the F.I.C.S (Fellowship Institute Chartered Shipbrokers) organized a celebratory forum in Athens with topic the "Changing Horizons".

Ten Lloyd's Open Form contracts in the last quarter of the year ensured that the TSAVLIRIS SALVAGE GROUP once again was the largest LOF contractor worldwide in 2005.

Tsavliris Group received a special award from the Hellenic Institute of Marine Technology (ELINT) for its contribution to shipping and the cultural wellbeing of Piraeus. On 18 December 2005, at the Ledra Marriott Hotel, Athens, ELINT President, Byron Tomazos noted that as a salvor over the past 30 years, Tsavliris has undertaken over 2,000 salvage operations, some of them among the world's best known. Nicolas A. Tsavliris, accepting the award on behalf of the group, commented on the long service of people working with the group and noted the dangers associated with salvage.

After a busy start to 2005, the TSAVLIRIS SALVAGE GROUP has continued to be highly active in the last two months with a series of further significant LOF salvage operations.

As previously reported, TSAVLIRIS had been contracted by the owners and their P&I Club to remove the cargo of logs on deck from the bulk carrier "KIPEROUSA", which had grounded off East London in South Africa on 7th June. TSAVLIRIS had originally been engaged under the terms of LOF 2000 incorporating SCOPIC and were carrying out salvage services under the SCOPIC Clause.

After a busy winter period, the international TSAVLIRIS SALVAGE GROUP has again been active in recent weeks, with a number of notable salvage cases spanning the Aegean Sea, the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, as well as the Far East.

Three active months for the TSAVLIRIS SALVAGE GROUP began just before Christmas with commencement of a major project to salvage a frigate after it stranded on a reef 80 miles north of Jeddah.

The TSAVLIRIS SALVAGE GROUP has refloated a stranded bulk carrier in one of the most difficult and protracted salvage operations carried out in the Indian Ocean in recent times.