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Fairmount Heavy Transport is a Dutch
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that operates two
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heavy transport vessels, Fairmount Fjord and Fairmount Fjell. Both are being converted at Malta Shipyards in 2007/2008.
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is performed by Fairmount Heavy Transport itself, since 1 August 2007 independently from Fairmount Marine. Fairmount Heavy Transport was founded in 2005 and based in
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. It is listed on the
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. In the United States and in maritime law, Fairmount Heavy Transport is known as the defendant in ''Transportes Navieros y Terrestres S.A. de C.V. v. Fairmount Heavy Transport, N.V.'', a 2009 case heard in the
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involving a dispute over liability for the wrongful arrest of a vessel.


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