Shanghai Salvage Company(SSC), also known as China Ocean Engineering Solutions Limited (COES) established its salvage business in 1951 with responsibilities for people rescue, recovery of marine property, wreck removal, spilled-oil recovery and other emergency responses for the southeastern coastal area of China. SSC is a leading salvage company in China and its “Shanghai Salvage” brand-name has already become world-famous and globally recognized. The company has received international acclaim for successfully completed some of the world most complex and challenging salvage projects.
COES brings and applies decades of accumulated experience from offshore engineering and project management to the planning and execution activities for each of our offshore installation projects undertaken for our clients. Quality and success of each project ensured by an experienced team of engineering supervisors, discipline engineers, technical specialists, DP masters, diving superintendents and other operational and support staff;
Ocean towing is one of the main businesses . As from 1970’s, COES started its international towage business. In 1998, COES associated with Svitzer Ocean Towage (ex “SmitWijs”), world- famous towage contractor, to establish Global Towage Alliance, to provide large- floating unit ocean towage such as FPSO and drilling rig, etc.
Through our subsidiary Shenzhen Huawei Offshore Transport CO Ltd founded in 1983, a company specialized in offshore oil field services, COES provides AHTS and PSV dedicated to oil field supporting, offshore oil lifting operation services, anchor handling services and offshore construction supporting services.
As the largest and world-famous professional salvage company in China, Shanghai Salvage Company of the Ministry of transport has vigorously developed the three main businesses of "offshore engineering", "towing transportation" and "offshore oil ship service" while ensuring to resolutely perform the responsibilities of rescue and salvage. Saturation diving is a core business and a new economic growth point. In December 2006, 200m saturation diving equipment was used for the first time to repair the single point riser of Panyu oilfield, realizing a breakthrough in the commercial application of domestic saturation diving technology. In 2009, the international advanced 300m saturation diving system was introduced and equipped on the newly built 300m saturation diving mother ship "deep diving", so that the deep diving operation capacity of our bureau reached the domestic leading and international first-class level. Over the years, saturation diving operations have been completed in Panyu, Xijiang, Wenchang, Yacheng and Huizhou oilfields in the South China Sea. In May 2013, a new diving depth of 198m was created for domestic saturated diving offshore operation in Liuhua oilfield. In January 2014, the first 300m saturation diving operation in China was completed in the South China Sea, and the maximum cruising depth reached 313.5m.
COES has two largest diving equipment factories in China, manufacturing hyperbaric oxygen chamber, decompression chamber, diving bell, diving suit and diving equipment.