Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Salvage companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,844 salvage companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 16,937 professional contacts across them, including 3,342 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Bhavnagar the largest hub.
This list covers salvage companies worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026. Country and city lists for salvage companies follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest salvage companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 923 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “American Iron & Metal (AIM) is a family-owned, Canada-based company founded in 1936.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 841 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MICOPERI has been active in the marine sector since 1946 when the company was incorporated as a salvage company to free the shipping routes from vessels sunk during the Second…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 627 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Boluda Towage provides tailored towage services to its customers in major ports across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 472 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 413 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About us SA Metal Group (Pty) Ltd is South Africa’s oldest metal recycling company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Global leader in online vehicle remarketing and recycling, Copart UK, was established in 2007 and handles over vehicles each year through online auctions for a variety of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “COMPANY OVERVIEW HMR Philippines Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 314 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recover er spesialister på opprydding og gjenoppbygging etter brann, vann- og miljøskader.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 296 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fenix Parts is a leading automotive recycler and reseller of original equipment automotive products in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UZMAR was founded in 1972 by Senior Harbour Pilot Captain Altay Altug, as “The First Private Pilotage & Towage Company of Turkey”, serving various private ports and harbors in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 277 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Resolve Marine, a global leader in vessel salvage, emergency response, compliance and specialized marine services, has served and supported clients and projects for 40 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 231 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Harbor Star Shipping Services, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 223 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The inception of the EDT Offshore narrative dates back to 1980 in Limassol, Cyprus.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Multraship Towage & Salvage is a division of the Muller Maritime Group, jointly owned by the Dutch Muller Family and Hamburg based Fairplay Towage.The company's core activities…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ARAS is one of the most outstanding private companies of Turkey on issues of salvage, towage, and marine construction.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MedTug SpA (formerly Rimorchiatori Mediterranei SpA, ex Rimorchiatori Riuniti Group) is now part of BOLUDA TOWAGE, owned by Boluda Corporaciòn Maritima and MSC Group, the largest…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “B&R Auto is one of the largest suppliers of recycled OEM automotive parts in the western United States, helping repair shops, dealerships, insurance partners, and vehicle owners…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 140 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our story begins in 2021, where GoBid launched as a forward-looking company, focused on disrupting the vehicle auction and salvage industries in South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ultratug is a leading provider of towage, offshore, salvage, and special operations services across South America and Mexico.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who Are We?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Il y a 40 ans, INDRA est née avec une idée simple : faire de ce que d’autres appelaient la fin… un nouveau départ.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1940, Parker Towing Company is one of the largest barge lines in the southeastern United States, operating a fleet of towboats and over 350 open and covered hopper…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 30 years, GMS has been an innovator and leader in the ship recycling industry, boldly facing challenges and finding sensible solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SMIT Salvage offers marine emergency response coverage at a moment’s notice, 24/7.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aesop is a growing family of customer-centric, leading auto recycling businesses that provide high quality recycled parts enabling repair shops and customers to lower their repair…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: salvage companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names salvage companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of salvage companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name salvage companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Salvage companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among salvage companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for salvage companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “salvage companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names salvage companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among salvage companies, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,342 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Salvage companies by location
11 lists · largest firstEvery Salvage companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Salvage companies based in the United States502
- Salvage companies based in the United Kingdom118
- Salvage companies based in France113
- Salvage companies based in Spain100
- Salvage companies based in India91
- Salvage companies based in Italy78
- Salvage companies based in Germany69
- Salvage companies based in the Netherlands69
- Salvage companies based in Canada57
- Salvage companies based in Brazil55
- Salvage companies based in Australia46
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names salvage companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many salvage companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,844 salvage companies worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
American Iron & Metal AIM, headquartered in Montreal, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most salvage companies?
The United States leads with 502 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (118) and France (113). Every salvage companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most salvage companies?
Bhavnagar leads with 25 headquartered companies, followed by Mumbai (12) and Singapore (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,342 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,844 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.