The Belgian company Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME), based in Antwerp, believes that the key to success is to make a difference in your market. Its philosophy of offering innovative solutions, together with more than a century of specialist industrial know-how, has led it to achieve global success.
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EME’s ability to read the dredging industry and commit substantial capital investment to further strengthen its position and allow for diversification means that it can provide an unrivalled service to its customers, and be a major player across five continents of the world. Dredging is the Antwerp-based company’s core business and it represents 70 per cent of its global activities. And it seems DEME is making all the difference in a booming and highly competitive industry. The company recorded an annual turnover of €1.766 billion in 2011. Its invest-
ment programme up to 2013 has included the construction of 17 major dredgers and hydraulic engineering vessels.
Operating on the world stage The recent additions to the fleet constitute quite a sizeable investment in what has become a huge flotilla, but it’s also a necessary move if DEME is to continue playing such an active role in the global dredging market. The company is permanently present in every region of the world, which is precisely why it needs to maintain such an extensive fleet.
DEME is present on every continent because it has an extensive fleet of dredgers, totalling 90 main vessels backed by a broad range of auxiliary equipment. In November last year (2012) the company named its latest self-propelled rock dredge ‘Amazone’. This new seagoing dredger is self-propelled and features 12,860 kW of total installed power. It is specially equipped for dredging hard rock formations with a rock cutter head designed for great production rates with low down-time. This latest ‘green’ vessel from DEME reflects its commitment to acting in a sustainable way.
