Damen Shiprepair Oranjewerf is commemorating 70 years of providing repair work, upkeep, conversion, and also renovate solutions to the maritime sector.

Short turn-around times, a riches of understanding from its employees and also a specialized concentrate on customers’ requirements have actually been the essential features of the backyard’s method operandi over the last 7 years.

Oranjewerf’s place– simply north of Amsterdam and also near the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal and also the North Sea Canal– is likewise a considerable consider its success; this has actually gained it a reputable setting offering both the inland and also seagoing delivery fields.

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Throughout Damen Shiprepair Oranjewerf’s lengthy background, the backyard’s solutions have actually stayed significantly the same. Founded in 1949 by a consortium of neighborhood delivery business and also shipyards, the backyard’s significant goal was to provide repair work solutions to inland and also seaside vessels.

Now, 70 years later on and also component of the Damen Shipyards Group considering that 1989, Damen Shiprepair Oranjewerf is able bring into play that large quantity of experience to proceed its benefit various maritime markets.

A check out the backyard’s present labor force highlights this connection of abilities; a few of the group have actually functioned there for greater than two decades, among them for 40 years.

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6-hour turn-arounds

The inland cruise ship field is specifically vital forDamen Shiprepair Oranjewerf Every year, as an example, some 2,400 inland cruise ship vessels see the city ofAmsterdam “About 25 to 30 of these come to us and Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam for some sort of docking,” claims Jeen van der Werf, sales supervisor at the backyard.

The typical element called for by these customers is a fast turn-around, something that Damen Shiprepair Oranjewerf can minimize to much less than 6 hrs.

“This is our specialty – inland cruise vessel operators can drop passengers off at nine in the morning for a nice day exploring Amsterdam, and then be in our drydock at ten o’clock. We make sure that the work is done in time so that the vessel can pick up the passengers at three in the afternoon.”

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Damen Shiprepair Oranjewerf still deals with inland cruise ship vessels in the off-peak period, yet after that this is commonly for even more extensive tasks such as unique studies or even more extreme upkeep jobs. For all its job, the backyard makes use of one dry-dock (135 x 23 metres, with a 6,000 tonne ability) and also one slipway (100 x 11 metres, 1,500 tonne ability). These are inhabited 95% of the moment.

Efficient interaction

Joining the Damen Shipyards Group thirty years ago saw Damen Shiprepair Oranjewerf boost its protection to even more maritime fields. Today, this most especially consists of customers from the overseas sector, with ships running out of IJmuiden and also Den Helder, along with vessels operating in the dredging and also freight fields.

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Mr Van der Werf proceeds by mentioning that the backyard’s place is not the only factor that customers continuously concernedDamen Shiprepair Oranjewerf “They also love how we work – we have just four people in management so our lines of communication are inherently short.”

“While it is possible to offer clients a docking position at another yard in the Damen Shipyards Group, they are mostly happy wait until the dock is available again. This is because we have excellent relationships with our clients. They know we work, and they want to come here. Each client has their own approach. We serve our customers 24 hours a day.”

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