In addition to our traditional home port of Gladstone, East Coast Maritime Pty Ltd have established an operations base at Hemmant, Brisbane. Tugs based at ECM Brisbane: HT Salute – 16m 12T BP twin screw Lismore – 16m 9T BP twin screw Barges based at ECM Brisbane: Crest 181 – 55m (180′) deck cargo barge…
ECM successfully completes the salvage of the 18m timber trawler Suzanne Ross, which sank in 23m of water off Great Keppel Island in July 2014. ECM’s tug Lismore and dive support vessel Independence 1 were despatched to site with a salvage team of 8 personnel under the command of ECM’s Salvage Master. In testing weather…
ECM have completed the contract to retrieve, service, and redeploy two Tsunami monitoring buoys in the Tasman Sea with our special purpose vessel Pacific Conquest. Specialised equipment and Client personnel was transported to and from the southern tip of the Southland of New Zealand. The Client required a vessel with unrestricted navigational limits, and specific…
ECM have been awarded the bed levelling services package for Gladstone Ports Corporation’s 2014 maintenance dredging campaign, continuing a long and successful collaboration with the GPC that stretches back more than 10 years. For operational purposes, the campaign will be split between our primary plough vessel Pacific Conquest, and our secondary plough vessel Lismore.
Due to high demand for ECM’s plough dredging & bed levelling services, we have developed a new modular ploughing system for tugs & workboats which is able to be installed and removed by 2 crew in 1-2 hours with the assistance of a shore-based crane. Our plough vessel Lismore was fitted with the new modular ploughing…
In response to increasing demand for plough dredging & bed levelling services independent of dedicated dredging and survey vessels, ECM have permanently installed survey-grade multi-beam sonar on our primary ploughing vessel Pacific Conquest. The addition of multi-beam sonar now enables crew to monitor progress in real-time without the need for costly daily or bi-daily surveys.…