Dockwise

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Dockwise BV

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founding 1993
Seat Breda , the Netherlands
management André Goedée
Branch shipping
Website www.dockwise.com

The Dockwise BV is a company specializing in heavy goods by water. The company is based in Breda in the Netherlands .

history

The company was created in 1993 through the merger of Wijsmuller Transport and Dock Express Shipping. The new company was owned by the Norwegian Wilh group. Wilhelmsen and the Dutch Heerema Group.

In 2001 Dockwise merged with Offshore Heavy Transport ASA (OHT). With the Black Marlin and the Blue Marlin, OHT brought two ships into the company.

In 2006 it was decided to sell Dockwise to the British financial investor 3i . The sale was completed in January 2007.

In 2007 Dockwise merged with Sealift. The merger added six more ships to Dockwise's fleet, which Sealift brought into the company. This was to Suezmax - tankers , which on semi-submersible vessels have been converted. The ships form the T-Class: Transporter , Target , Treasure , Talisman , Trustee and Triumph .

In 2012 Dockwise took over the Dutch company Fairstar Heavy Transport.

In 2013, Dockwise was taken over by Royal Boskalis Westminster .

Use of the ships

Dockwise's clients are primarily the oil and gas industry as well as heavy lift companies. For example, conveyor platforms, voluminous and heavy loads, but also entire ships (e.g. military ships or luxury yachts) are transported.

Dockwise ships are also used to transport zeppelins. The Dock Express 10 transported a Zeppelin NT from Gioia Tauro to Japan at the turn of the year 2004/2005 .

In August 2005 the Enterprise transported a Zeppelin NT for De Beers from Amsterdam to South Africa, which was to be used there as part of the “Diamonds for Development” project.

In connection with the wrecked Costa Concordia, it was initially planned to ship the cruise ship to a dock for scrapping with the Dockwise Vanguard , which had been in service only a few months earlier . However, the plan was later discarded.

fleet

Super Servant 3 with yachts in San Diego, California

Dockwise operates a fleet of 18 dock ships in the variants "Open deck", "Dock type" and "Yacht carrier". Depending on the type, the ships are permanently assigned certain transport tasks: eleven ships for oil rigs , three for industrial goods and three for luxury yachts or barges . Since February 2013, the new Dockwise Vanguard , the world's largest heavy-lift ship with a length of 275 meters, a width of 70 meters and a diving depth of 16 meters, has also been part of the fleet.

The ships sail partly under the flag of the Netherlands Antilles , partly under the flag of Malta .

Overview of the ships
Ship name IMO no. Callsign Whereabouts
Black Marlin 9186326 9HA4606
Blue marlin 9186338 9HA4605
Mighty Servant 1 8130875 PJVZ
Mighty Servant 3 8130899 PJWM
Super Servant 3 8025331 sold as OK in drive
Super Servant 4 8025343 PJPO
Swan 8001000 PJYI
Swift 8113554 PJYJ Scrapped in Aliaga in 2019
talisman 8918942 9HA4613 2019 demolition in Aliaga
Target 8617938 9HA4710
Teal 8113566 PJWD
Tern 8000977 PJXY Scrapped in Aliaga in 2017
Transporter 8918930 PJWP Scrapped in Aliaga in 2019
Transshelf 8512279 PJRR
Treasure 8617940 9HA4575 Scrapped in Aliaga in 2019
triumph 8902967 9HA4709
Trustee 8902955 PJIZ
Yacht Express 9346029 PCEX
Boka Vanguard 9618783 PJWC

literature

The lightest transport ever! In: Dockwiser Magazine , Vol. 21, June 2005 ( PDF file )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message CEO , Dockwise BV. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Dutch Heavy Lift Operator Dockwise Sold for $ 700m ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Maritime Journal, January 1, 2007. Retrieved August 10, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maritimejournal.com
  3. ↑ a b c d History and Developments , Dockwise BV Accessed August 10, 2012.
  4. ↑ Maritime heavy transportation companies Dockwise and Sealift announce merger , 3i, April 27, 2007. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ Fairstar Board unanimously recommends acceptance of NOK 10 per share , Fairstar, July 15, 2012. Accessed August 10, 2012.
  6. ↑ BOSKALIS. Retrieved January 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Zeppelin will soon be made navigable , Schwäbische Zeitung , November 10, 2004. Retrieved on August 10, 2012.
  8. ↑ No Lead in this Zeppelin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.maritimejournal.com   , Maritime Journal, March 1, 2005. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
  9. ^ Overseas transport of a zeppelin by Dockwise , press release, Dockwise, August 2, 2005. Accessed August 10, 2012.
  10. ↑ Dockwise ducks heavy lift with light Zeppelin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.oilport.net   , Offshore247.com, August 2, 2005. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
  11. ↑ http://www.dockwise.com/readmore/pressrelease-boskalis-awarded-contract-removal-c.html
  12. ↑ http://www.boskalis.com/press/news-archive/news-page/boskalis-awarded-contract-for-removal-of-the-concordia-onboard-the-dockwise-vanguard.html
  13. ^ Register entry , Bureau Veritas.
  14. ↑ Dockwise Vanguard at dockwise.com

Web links

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