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In 2018 JD-Contractors A/S’s sister company JD Crafts A/S acquired the vessel Maersk Boulder from Maersk Supply Services. The vessel was initially bareboat chartered to a third party. In the summer, of 2019 the vessel was returned to JD Crafts, and the vessel has subsequently been overhauled and renamed “Boulder” and she will now be operated commercially by JD-Contractor A/S.

Following Maersk Drilling’s sale of the jack-up rig Giant (formerly named Mærsk Giant) to the LOTOS Petrobaltic Group, JD-Contractor carried out the Rig move of the “Giant” in September, from Esbjerg to Gdańsk for the new owners.

From the 25^th of August to September 10^th 2019, JD-Contractor successfully salvaged all the remaining oil and “Ghost nets” from the old tanker wreck Lindenäs off the East coast of Sweden in the Baltic Sea. The operation was carried out in 70-metre water depths by means of both divers and ROV’s. The goal was to do this salvage operation in the most environmentally friendly, safe and efficient way as possible.

In the spring of 2019 Sea War Museum (SWM) together with JD-Contractor and US-based Global Expeditions Group (GXG) performed its first large joined wreck survey expedition to the Baltic Sea. Over a period of little more than two weeks, M/S Cable One covered more than 600 nautical miles in the Baltic Sea, documenting, 33 wrecks.