Coastal Marine Services

Coastal Marine Services
Name	Coastal Marine Services
Industry	Maritime services
Founded	1970s
Headquarters	Unknown
Products	Marine logistics, salvage, surveying

Coastal Marine Services is a maritime services provider specializing in coastal and offshore support, marine logistics, salvage, surveying, and environmental response. The company operates across regional ports, supports commercial shipping lanes, energy installations, and fishing fleets, and collaborates with regulatory bodies, insurers, and international organizations to deliver integrated vessel operations and marine engineering.

Overview

Coastal Marine Services operates in conjunction with major ports such as Port of Rotterdam, Port of Singapore, Port of Los Angeles, Port of Long Beach, Port of Hamburg, Port of Antwerp, Port of Valencia, Port of Santos, Port of Shanghai, Port of Hong Kong, Port of Busan, Port of Tokyo, Port of Melbourne, Port of Durban, Port of Vancouver, Port of New Orleans, Port of Seattle, Port of Felixstowe, Port of Jebel Ali, Port of Tanjung Pelepas, Port of Haifa, Port of Piraeus, Port of Le Havre, Port of Tallinn, Port of Genoa, Port of Naples, Port of Bilbao, Port of Gothenburg, Port of Oslo, Port of Antwerp-Bruges, Port of Alexandria, Port of Casablanca, Port of Mombasa, Port of Lagos, Port of Algeciras, Port of Salvador, Port of Manzanillo (Mexico), Port of Balboa, Port of Colombo, Port of Klang, Port of Laem Chabang, Port of Chittagong, Port of Yangon, Port of Bandar Abbas, Port of Aden, Port of Aqaba, Port of Dar es Salaam, and Port of Recife to support cargo handling, towage, pilotage, and emergency response. It engages with maritime institutions like International Maritime Organization, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, International Association of Classification Societies, Lloyd's Register, Bureau Veritas, American Bureau of Shipping, ClassNK, European Maritime Safety Agency, United States Coast Guard, Transport Canada, Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Japan Coast Guard, Korean Register, Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, and Shipping Federation of Japan.

Services and Operations

The firm provides services including salvage operations akin to those coordinated after incidents like the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Braer oil spill, Erika oil spill, and Prestige oil spill, marine surveying comparable to work by Hydrographic Office (United Kingdom), wreck removal similar to projects involving Dutch Salvage Company Smit International and Compañía Española de Salvamento Marítimo, towage operations analogous to Svitzer and Boluda Corporación Maritima, cargo lightering in routes served by lines like Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company, CMA CGM, Evergreen Marine, and Hapag-Lloyd, as well as subsea support in fields developed by companies such as Royal Dutch Shell, BP plc, ExxonMobil, Chevron Corporation, TotalEnergies, Equinor, Petrobras, StatoilHydro, and Eni. It liaises with insurers and claims adjusters including Lloyd's of London, Aon plc, Marsh McLennan, and Willis Towers Watson on salvage and General Average matters.

Infrastructure and Vessels

Coastal Marine Services maintains a fleet comparable to those of Boskalis, Van Oord, Jan De Nul Group, Damen Shipyards Group, Berge Bulk, Shell Shipping & Maritime, and Tidewater (company), including salvage tugs, anchor handlers, buoy tenders, survey vessels, and crew transfer vessels used by operators like Ørsted (company), Equinor ASA, Subsea 7, Saipem, TechnipFMC, McDermott International, DOF Subsea, and Nexans S.A.. Its shore infrastructure parallels facilities at AP Moller–Maersk terminals, DP World terminals, PSA International yards, Kawasaki Heavy Industries docks, Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyards, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries fabrication sites, Keppel Corporation quays, Sembcorp Marine facilities, Fincantieri yards, and Navantia shipbuilding complexes.

Environmental Management and Compliance

Environmental response and compliance activities reference protocols and frameworks by International Maritime Organization instruments such as MARPOL, London Convention, London Protocol, and International Convention on Salvage; coordinated actions reflect precedents like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and remediation programs by organizations such as International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation, United Nations Environment Programme, Greenpeace International, World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and regional bodies such as California Environmental Protection Agency, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Environment Agency (England), Scotland's Environment Protection Agency, and Norwegian Environment Agency.

Safety and Training

Training follows standards from institutions and frameworks such as International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, International Safety Management Code, Safety of Life at Sea Convention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, International Labour Organization, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, United States Coast Guard Academy, Maritime and Transport Training Centre, Warsash Maritime School, Australian Maritime College, Shanghai Maritime University, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, University of Southampton, World Maritime University, Cranfield University, and Doyle Shipping Academy for bridge resource management, firefighting, and confined space entry. Safety management systems and incident investigations reference standards from ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 as applied by classification societies such as Lloyd's Register.

Economic and Community Impact

Operations contribute to regional supply chains touching shipping alliances like the 2M Alliance, THE Alliance, and Ocean Alliance and link to port community systems operated by entities such as Harbour Master of Rotterdam and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Employment impacts mirror workforce dynamics in maritime clusters like Marseille-Fos Port, Hamburg Metropolitan Region, Port of Antwerp-Bruges Economic Zone, Gulf of Mexico, North Sea oil and gas fields, Persian Gulf, South China Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean Sea, Andaman Sea, and Aegean Sea, interacting with unions and associations such as International Transport Workers' Federation, Seafarers' Welfare Board, Maritime Union of Australia, Unite the Union, National Union of Seafarers of India, and All-Japan Seamen's Union.

Technology and Innovation

Coastal Marine Services integrates technologies and platforms used by industry leaders such as Autonomous Ship Technology, Remotely Operated Vehicle, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Lidar, Multibeam Echosounder, Side-scan sonar, Dynamic Positioning, Ballast Water Management Convention compliance systems, GreenShip energy-efficiency measures, and digital logistics platforms similar to those from Navis, Kongsberg Maritime, Wärtsilä, Rolls-Royce Holdings plc marine systems, ABB Marine & Ports, Siemens Maritime, GE Marine, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Oracle Corporation maritime solutions, IBM hybrid cloud, and startups incubated by Maersk Growth and Global Maritime Forum. Innovation partnerships reflect collaborations like those between Shell plc and Microsoft, Ørsted and EDP Renewables, Equinor and IBM, and research links to institutions such as Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, National Oceanography Centre, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, CSIR, TNO, Fraunhofer Society, INRIA, ETH Zurich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Technical University of Denmark.

Category:Maritime companies