News & Announcements

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.

Leading international salvor TSAVLIRIS has been highly active over the summer with a series of groundings and other maritime casualties spanning the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Greek leading salvor TSAVLIRIS has dispatched S/T "MEGAS ALEXANDROS" from Piraeus on 7th of July to assist the container Ship "LUCY BORCHARD", which ran aground in shallow waters in the sea of Korakia, north west of Chios island.

Published to coincide with the opening of Posidonia 2004 and the Olympiad in Athens, a colourful 48-page TSAVLIRIS brochure covers a fair number of the significant salvage and towage contracts successfully undertaken over the past four years by the world's most active response contractor.

Leading salvor George Tsavliris has urged the European Union to work closely with the salvage industry in developing antipollution response capabilities within Europe - and at the same time he called for a harmonized approach with that of global bodies, particularly the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).

The TSAVLIRIS SALVAGE GROUP has expressed its gratitude to the Government of Pakistan and to a large number of individuals and organisations for the role they played in the safe return home of company salvage master Nikos Pappas after eight months of detention in Karachi.

A newly produced pocket guide to the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) has been produced with the support from the TSAVLIRIS SALVAGE GROUP and is being distributed to international shipping companies with offices in Cyprus and abroad.

Wishes for the safe and quick return of the Tsavliris salvage master held in Pakistan for the last six months, dominated the traditional cutting of the New Year's cake held recently at the offices of the Piraeus-based international salvage group.