Company Profile
Resolve Marine
Company Overview
Resolve Marine provides innovative and reliable maritime solutions across the globe through our dedicated salvage and emergency response resources. We are a family-owned company with international reach and our core businesses are Maritime Emergency Response, Salvage and Wreck Removal, and Maritime Training.
Company History
In 1984, only 4 years after purchasing his first tug – THE RESOLVE, Joe Farrell Jr. formally opened Resolve Towing & Salvage developing a global leader in Maritime Emergency Response, Wreck Removal, Marine Services, Regulatory Compliance, and Maritime Training.
Growing from a one-tug operation, Resolve’s capabilities expanded as teams oversaw jobs in the Caribbean working on small freighters and island vessels to larger, high-profile response projects. Following the 1989 EXXON VALDEZ oil spill in Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard established regulations for OPA-90. Resolve identified the need to offer services that met those regulations in order to provide its clients effective responses in the case of maritime incidents within US waters.
In order to comply with OPA-90 rules, Resolve needed the expertise and capabilities to fight tank vessel fires – in short, it needed a firefighting team. In establishing the team, Resolve built its own training facility. Resolve became the only salvage company with an in-house firefighting team of experts, who also served as professional instructors.
While the organization realized the OPA-90 model had worldwide ramifications, Resolve dedicated its resources to the North American market initially. At the time, Resolve was the only Salvage and Marine Firefighting provider focused on offering the best maritime response services within the United States. Resolve’s dedication to refining its OPA-90 emergency response model paid off as Resolve now maintains a strong network of 23 depots nationwide, stocked with company-owned equipment around the clock.
Once the organization established its U.S. capabilities, Resolve applied the OPA-90 emergency response model worldwide. The company now has offices and response bases in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, Singapore, The Netherlands, India, China, and South Africa.