Brunswick, United States — Back in 2019, a 656 foot-long carrier cargo ship called MV Golden Ray capsized while carrying 4,200 Hyundai vehicles, and due to a string of setbacks the vehicles are still trapped today.
While there were no casualties, the ship which is 106 feet wide and has a capacity of 20, 995 deadweight tons is a hard project to dismantle.
Preparations were made to go to the site of the ship and start to carefully scrape it for parts. This however, was put on pause due to COVID-19. The group which was in charge of dismantling the ship had 10 responders test positive for COVID-19 which then required the other 50 responders to quarantine.
The other problem the group ran into was as hurricane season approached, further setbacks quickly arose, and the project was put on hold most likely until October. The problem is that disassembling the ship can potentially expose the environment to damaging chemicals and once they have started dismantling it will be important not to delay in completing the job.
In terms of the dismantling process, the team will use a VB-10,000 twin-hull heavy-lift vessel which will then use two 225-foot-tall gantry cranes to cut the ship into eight large sections which will then be lifted onto a barge and transported to a recycling facility in Louisiana.
