Specialized marine service provider Resolve Marine saw its business in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and at its base at Dutch Harbor, Alaska experience substantial growth in 2023.
In the Pacific Northwest, the Florida-based company offers marine response and support services, including ship husbandry projects, vessel salvage, and underwater inspections jobs out of a new 10,000 square-foot facility that opened earlier this year in Tacoma.
Shipyard, drydock, and marine services are offered in Dutch Harbor.
In March, Resolve Marine’s salvage and marine firefighting strike team was first on the scene at a fire on a fish processing vessel docked at the Port of Tacoma. The company’s emergency firefighting team coordinated with the Tacoma Fire Department to cool the exterior hull and de-water the vessel to ensure it was stable. Six days later, the fire was declared extinguished.
Additional work performed on the burned-out vessel included a dive inspection of the hull and removal of the remaining fuel onboard.
“The regional team of full-time and on-call contractors means we can respond to any marine emergency with skilled personnel and deploy specialized assets and equipment,” said A.W. McAfee, Resolve’s U.S. West Coast regional general manager.
“Clients in the region continue to applaud our professionalism, commitment to safety, and affordable, quality work,” he said, adding that establishing the Tacoma facility “was essential to expanding business development opportunities.”
At Dutch Harbor, the company’s 85,000-square-foot shipyard and warehouse and 1,000-ton drydock serve commercial and fishing fleets in western Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
The Aleutian Island base was established in 1978 and currently the tugs Resolve Pioneer and Makushin Bay, as well as an RMG 300 heavy lift crane barge and other equipment, are deployed there.
Last year, drydocks, environmental remediation and machining, welding, and vessel painting jobs dominated business at Dutch Harbor – 20 drydocks were completed, up 17 percent from 2022.
Marine construction and general shipyard services increased 32 percent, with drydock repairs, machining that included in-house fabrication, salvage diving, and military port service projects leading to more than 330 jobs that were successfully completed.
In addition, one vessel removal operation and four emergency tows were successfully conducted, while environmental remediation work removed over 100,000 gallons of sewage and oily waste from the Aleutian Islands and surrounding areas.