Tauranga Marine

Tauranga — Steel cutting on board the Rena continued with very good progress made during the current stable weather window.

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Tauranga — The tender process for the next stage of salvage work – wreck removal – is continuing.

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Tauranga — The tender process for the next stage of salvage work - wreck removal - is continuing.

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Tauranga — The tender process for the next stage of salvage work - wreck removal - is continuing.

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Tauranga — A 36 year old Tauranga man who had pleaded guilty of illegally fishing in a marine reserve was discharged without conviction at a court hearing in Tauranga today.

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Tauranga — With positive progress, Rena salvage operation now preparing for winter Following faster than expected progress in the recovery of containers from the MV Rena in recent weeks and possible extreme weather conditions over the winter months, planning is currently underway in preparation for the next stages of the operation.

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Tauranga — Salvage High winds and swell out at the reef this week have caused some disruption to salvage activities, with Smit Borneo forced to remain on standby yesterday.

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Tauranga — 24 May 2012 - 2.17pm Excellent progress has been made on container removal from the wreck site over the past week, with 21 containers removed from the bow section on Monday – the highest number of containers removed in a single day since the break up of the wreck.

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Tauranga — 18 May 2012 - 12.00am Rough weather at the reef earlier in the week caused some disruption to salvage activity but salvors resumed work yesterday and made good progress, removing a large number of bundles of aluminium ingots from the number 1 hold.

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Tauranga — 11 May 2012 - 12.00am Salvors have made good progress through the week, although operations were suspended yesterday due to heavy swells around the wreck site making salvage activity unsafe.

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Tauranga — 4 May 2012 - 1.05pm Svitzer has continued to make good progress removing containers and debris from the Rena wreck over the past week.

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Tauranga — The National On Scene Commander has today reduced the emergency oil spill response to the Rena grounding from a Tier 3, or national level, to a Tier 2, or regional level response.

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Tauranga — 27 April 2012 - 11.20am Svitzer salvors have made good progress in removing containers and cargo from Rena throughout the week.

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Tauranga — 13 April 2012 - 12.45am An over flight by MNZ yesterday morning noted damage to the forward section bulkhead between No 2 and No 3 hold.

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Tauranga — 3 April 2012 - 5.30pm Further to this afternoon's update, the oil spill response team has confirmed a small amount of oil is leaking from the wreck.

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Tauranga — 3 April 2012 - 3.30pm Heavy swells hitting the wreck of the cargo ship Rena have resulted in further containers being released from a hold in the bow section, Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) says.

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Tauranga — 2 April 2012 - 11.30am The Smit Borneo departed the wreck on Saturday due to poor weather conditions, and is likely to remain in port this week due to forecast bad weather from Tuesday through until Sunday.

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Tauranga — The Transport Accident Investigation Commission has this morning (9.30am, Thursday, 8 March 2012) released an interim report of its independent inquiry into the grounding of the containership Rena on Astrolabe Reef, in the Bay of Plenty, at 2.14am on 5 October 2011.

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Tauranga — In consultation with the appropriate authorities, Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Harbourmaster has directed that the exclusion zone around the MV Rena be reduced to two nautical miles.

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Tauranga — 27 February 2012 - 11.00am Operations over the weekend saw the number of containers recovered from Rena rise to 561.

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Tauranga — 24 February 2012 - 12.00pm 554 containers have now been recovered from Rena by Svitzer salvors and received ashore by the Braemar Howells container processing teams.

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Tauranga — 20 February 2012 - 12.30pm Over the weekend, a total of 8.5 containers were removed from the aft section of Rena.

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