De Gerlien van Tiem

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De Gerlien van Tiem
legal form Besloten Vennootschap
founding 1967
Seat Druten , Netherlands
management Frans van Tiem
Marijke van Tiem
Number of employees at least 40
Branch Shipbuilding , ship engineering
Website www.gerlienvantiem.com

Aquapolis cargo ship built by De Gerlien van Tiem in 2006

De Gerlien van Tiem is a shipyard founded in 1967 in Druten on the Waal in the Netherlands . It began with the repair of barges , has also been producing ship technology since 1985 and has also been manufacturing new ships for inland shipping since 1995 .

Location and facilities

In 1967, company founder Frans van Tiem chose a site in Beneden-Leeuwen - a district of the municipality of West Maas en Waal in the province of Gelderland - as the location for the shipyard, which initially focused on the maintenance and repair of barges. The family business stayed in Beneden-Leeuwen for the next 15 years and moved to its current location in Druten in 1993. There the company built its own port and a production hall for the manufacture of ship technology, which had already started in Beneden-Leeuwen.

The shipyard's equipment includes a dry dock that can accommodate ships with a length of up to 110 meters and a weight of 1150 tons. The dry dock is complemented by three stave docks to lift the bow or stern section of a ship out of the water. They are 28 to 35 meters long and have a lifting capacity of 350, 750 and 1100 tons. There are two gantry cranes on the dry dock and seven more tower cranes on the shipyard site . There are also two work pontoons , a berth for ships with a length of up to 154 meters and two production halls .

Start as a repair and conversion yard

At the beginning, the shipyard initially offered maintenance, repair and maintenance work. They can range from simple damage repairs to complete ship overhauls. The shipyard has expanded its range of services by offering all kinds of conversion work. For example, single-hull tankers are converted to dry cargo ships , oil tankers to acid tankers and passenger ships are extensively modernized.

Shipyard as a ship technology manufacturer

The shipyard had already developed its own bow thrusters in Beneden-Leeuwen , which it offered on the market from 1985 in addition to the shipyard services. Today there are models for coasters and inland vessels that range from small 60 hp engines to 1000 hp units and in sizes of 400, 580, 680, 850, 1000, 1200 and 1400 millimeters with a steering radius of 360 degrees. The shipyard produces the bow thrusters in its own production hall and offers installation and shipping of the rudders. According to De Gerlien van Tiem, between 1985 and 2020 he sold around 1200 bow thrusters. The manufacturer also offers square anchor posts that it has developed itself .

Business field new buildings

River cruise ship Serenade 1 built by De Gerlien van Tiem in 2005

As an extension of ship conversions, De Gerlien van Tiem has also been offering new builds of dry cargo ships, tankers, dredgers , push boats and passenger ships for river cruises and day trips since 1995 . The shipyard is designed for new builds of ships up to 135 meters in length; customers include individual clients as well as shipping companies .

The shipyard obtains the hull insurance from subcontractors for the newly built cargo ships : Many of the hulls come from China , others come from Romanian shipyards and only a few from Western Europe. The passenger ships are largely produced on site; here, too, the shipyard involves external shipyards if necessary, as was the case with the day trip ship Maria Sibylla Merian in 2011 . In Druten, De Gerlien van Tiem produced the aft part of the ship, including the engine, while the bow section was supplied by the Helldörfer shipyard in Arnhem . Motors are purchased at the client's request and obtained from different manufacturers.

Construction list (selection)

The build list contains a selection of ship conversions and new builds by the shipyard.

Surname year Ship type Surveying or passengers Client Remarks
Ina 1996 (new building) Motor ship 2327 tons Teekman - Kruisinga Vof, Kampen ENI 02322824: Hull from Santierul Naval in Orșova , expansion in Druten; 1996 Ina , 2002 Celeste , 2007 Nocht , 2009 Torenvalk , 2015 Euodia , 2018 Adriaan-J ;
bolero 2003 (new building) Container Ship 5327 tons, 500 TEU Vof. Millennium 2000, Zwijndrecht ENI 02325839: Kasko from Nantong Shipyard in Nantong ( China ); Expansion at De Gerlien van Tiem;
Excellence Royal 2010 (new building) River cruise ship 144 passengers Swiss Excellence River Cruise, Basel ENI 02332815; Sister ship of the Excellence Queen ; travels the Seine between Paris and Caudebec-en-Caux ;
Excellence Queen 2011 (new building) River cruise ship 172 passengers Swiss Excellence River Cruise, Basel ENI 02333623; Sister ship of the Excellence Royal ; travels the Rhine and Moselle as well as waterways in Flanders and Holland to the IJsselmeer ;
Maria Sibylla Merian 2011 (new building) Day trip boat 480 passengers Primus Line , Frankfurt am Main ENI 04810040; Round trips, day trips and event trips on the Main , Rhine and Neckar ;
Piz la Margna 2019 (new building) Motor tanker Fluvia BV, Rotterdam ENI 2338476; first of five tankers for Fluvia BV to use mineral oil products on the Rhine;
Hardi 2019 (renovation) Motor tanker 2866 tons Duchesse Vof, Zwijndrecht ENI 02325891: 2003 at De Kaap in Meppel as ndl. Mineral oil tanker Hazard built, converted to acid tanker in 2019;

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c company brochure of the shipyard
  2. ↑ a b c De Gerlien van Tiem Shipyard at landseaairmagazine.com
  3. ↑ INA (02322824) at binnenvaart.eu
  4. ↑ Bolero - CMS - 02325839 at binnenschifferforum.de
  5. ↑ Excellence Royal at donau-schiffahrt.at
  6. ↑ Excellence Queen (02333623) at binnenvaart.eu
  7. ^ New building “Maria Sibylla Merian” for the Frankfurt Primus Line , In: Schifffahrts-Magazin. Trade journal for inland navigation, waterways, ports and ship technology No. 5/2012, ISSN 1867-8831, p. 26, ( online version as PDF )
  8. ↑ Christening MTS Piz la Margna at gerlienvantiem.com
  9. ↑ Hazard (02325891) at binnenvaart.eu