Drainage Pumps Stabilize Shipwreck in South African Waters

Xylem Inc., a global water technology company focused on addressing the world’s most challenging water issues, played a key role in a recovery mission to stabilize a large cargo ship carrying 150,000 tons of coal that ran aground off the coast of South Africa.Xylem’s Flygt 2600 series pumps removed water from the ship and helped to stabilize it so that none of the 1,830 tons of heavy fuel oil onboard leaked into the sea or endangered the local environment.Heavy swells, some reaching ten meters high, outside the Port of Richard’s Bay on the Kwazulu-Natal coast caused the 230 meter-long Panamanian