Mammoet
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| founding | 1971 |
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Utrecht , Netherlands
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| management | Paul van Gelder (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 1,700 |
| sales | EUR 300 million |
| Website | www.mammoet.com |
Mammoet ( German Mammut ) is a Dutch company that specializes in lifting and transporting heavy objects. The main areas of application are the construction of structures and rescue operations. The company has been wholly owned by SHV Holdings since 2011 .
background
With the help of self-propelled modular transporters , the company works on land and on water, on inland waters as well as offshore . When building structures, Mammoet is able to place large objects in the petrochemical industry and bridges in a short time.
The company was founded in 1971 by the three companies Goedkoop from Amsterdam (bulk transport, towing and inland waterway shipping), Van Wezel from Hengelo (international heavy transport over land) and Stoof from Breda (heavy transport over land). Since 2001 Mammoet maintains in Schiedam an office building that bears the name De Bolder (dt. Bollards ) bears. The company also has offices in North and South America, South Africa, the Middle East, Australia and East Asia.
On May 1, 1973, Mammoet Transport (65%) and the shipping company Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (35%) founded the heavy lift shipping company Mammoet Shipping . This was sold to the Spliethoff shipping group in Amsterdam in 2000 and operates under the name BigLift .
On January 8, 2020, Mammoet took over the Belgian company ALE.
Known missions
- 2000, Barents Sea , salvage of the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk
- October 31, 2007, Borna (Germany), Transfer of the Emmaus Church from Heuersdorf to Borna
- 2009, Strait of Magellan (Argentina), salvage of the 9.5 ton gold and silver treasure from the sunken Polar Mist
- February 2011, Rhine near St. Goarshausen , salvage of the damaged inland tanker Waldhof
- 2012, Ukraine, construction of the new “ New Safe Confinement ” protective cover for the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant
literature
- Michael Meyer: "The more complex, the better" for Mammoet . In: Hansa , issue 8/2019, pp. 74/75, ISSN 0017-7504
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Us
- ↑ a b US Federal Highway Administration: Office of International Programs , April 2019
- ↑ Van Seumeren family sells Mammoet shares
- ↑ Maria Cook: A fast fix for a nearly world (Engl.) . In: Ottawa Citizen , August 10, 2007. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012 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. . Retrieved November 4, 2007.
- ^ A b G. J. de Boer: Mammoet Shipping Co., Amsterdam . In: Maritiem Jaarboek , Uitgeverij De Alk, Alkmaar 1985.
- ↑ Mammoet completes ALE takeover. Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International Magazine, January 8, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Christoph Seidler: diving robot locates gold and silver in treasure ship. Der Spiegel, June 24, 2009, accessed January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Acid tanker lifted from the bottom - helpers recover corpse. Badische Zeitung, February 14, 2011, accessed on January 8, 2020 .
