BIS Services
Construction | Ship Cleaning | Debris Removal
Emergency Response | Consulting - P & I
Ship Cleaning
BIS maintains specialized equipment, including compressors, cherry pickers, hoses, pumps, hydro blasters, scrapers and ladders. We are able to increase, at short notice, our workforce and equipment, including floating cranes required to work Panamax vessels.
Our extensive equipment and labor resources enable us to work several vessels in different ports simultaneously. We are also able to provide the equipment to the ship’s crew and can assist with supervision if required.
Our supervisors are the most experienced in this field. We have undertaken work in all Gulf ports and we regularly clean holds on vessels underway between ports. Our aim is to secure the necessary USDA and NCB passes and get your vessel back “on hire” as soon as possible.
BIS has experience with all types of cargo including cement, pet coke, urea, bauxite, fertilizers, alumina, coal and iron ore.
Other services offered to our shipping customers include
- Rust scale removal
- Oil Spill Boom Placement for vessel fuel transfer
- Issuance of Water Discharge Permits
- Cargo Strap Downs
- Contaminated Cargo Removal
- Lashing of Materials, Equipment and Cargos
- Issuance of Gas Free Certificates
- Stores Gangs
- Dunnage Removal
- Slop and Bilge Water Removal
Marine Salvage & Survey Operations
M/V Nassau Pride / M/V North Princess
- Vessels damaged during cargo discharge
- Cleaned fuel tanks and ballast tanks in preparation for repair operations
M/V Neva Belle
- Vessel sunk
- Cleaned entire vessel and gas free fuel tanks, ballast tanks and bilges in preparation for repair operations
M/V Rhine Forest – International Ship holding Corporation
- Vessel damaged in collision
- Cleaned gas free fuel tanks and ballast tanks in preparation for repair operations
M/V Anangel Endeavor
- Vessel and cargo damaged in collision
- Orchestrated offloading, transportation and disposal of more that 6,000 tons of corn contaminated by sea water
Hopper Barge – Bunge Corporation
- Hopper barge and cargo damaged in fire
- Orchestrated the offloading, transportation and disposal of approximately 300 tons of furfural
- Cleaned and sweep-blasted interior of barge in preparation for shipyard work
M/V Westchester
- Vessel cargo hold breached spilling +/- 550,000 barrels of oil into the Mississippi
- Worked on deck to transfer remaining oil from the breached tank to other tanks to allow the movement of the vessel
- Worked several crews downriver in support of efforts to clean up oil spilled from the vessel