Royal Van Oord is a Dutch maritime contracting company that specializes in

dredging Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment. Possible reasons for dredging include improving existing water features; reshaping land and water features to alter drainage, navigability, and commercial use; constructing da ...

land reclamation Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds. The land reclaimed is known as reclamati ...

and constructing man made islands. Royal Van Oord has undertaken many projects throughout the world, including land reclamation, dredging and beach nourishment. The company has one of the world's largest

fleets.

History

The company was founded by Govert van Oord in 1868.Van Oord: history
/ref> In 1990 it acquired ''Aannemers Combinatie Zinkwerken'' ('ACZ') and in 2003 it acquired Ballast HAM Dredging (formed from the merger of

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's dredging division with ''Hollandse Aanneming Maatschappij'' ('HAM') two years earlier). King

Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander (; Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born ) is King of the Netherlands, having acceded to the throne following Beatrix of the Netherlands, his mother's abdication in 2013. Willem-Alexander was born in Utrecht as the old ...

awarded Van Oord the right to use the designation ''"Koninklijk"'' (Royal) on 23 November 2018.

Major projects

Projects undertaken by the company include the

Oosterscheldekering The Oosterscheldekering ( English: Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier), between the islands Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland, is the largest of the Delta Works, a series of dams and storm surge barriers, designed to protect the Netherlands ...

between Schouwen-Duiveland and

Noord-Beveland Noord-Beveland (; "North Beveland") is a municipality and region in the southwestern Netherlands and a former island, now part of the Walcheren-Zuid-Beveland-Noord-Beveland peninsula. Noord-Beveland is enclosed by the Oosterschelde estuary to the ...

completed in 1986, the Palm Jumeirah in

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completed in 2003,Van Oord to build third palm island in Dubai
Infrasite, 14 November 2005 the

IJsselmeer The IJsselmeer (; fy, Iselmar, nds-nl, Iesselmeer), also known as Lake IJssel in English, is a closed off inland bay in the central Netherlands bordering the provinces of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland. It covers an area of with an a ...

pipeline in the Netherlands completed in 2006 and the

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completed in 2008. A US sales and support office was opened in Houston Texas in 2010. In December 2016, the company entered a consortium with partners Shell, Eneco, and Mitsubishi/DGE and was awarded the Borssele 3 and 4 project. It was obtained for the strike price of 54.50 euro cents per megawatt-hour, the Netherlands’ lowest-ever strike price at that tim

In mid-2018, Van Oord announced the acquisition of MPI Offshore from the Vroon Group. MPI Offshore has specialized in offshore wind installations since 2003 as a contractor. Van Oord also takes over the two ships and crew. The transaction is subject to antitrust clearance, but is expected to close by the end of September 2018. Van Oord is mainly strengthening its position in the British offshore wind energy market.

Subsidiaries

References

External links

Royal Van Oord
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