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

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in 2007/2008.

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is performed by Fairmount Heavy Transport itself, since 1 August 2007 independently from

Fairmount Marine Fairmount Marine is a shipping company in the Koninklijke Boskalis Westminster N.V. group. The company operates 11 heavy transport vessels, including two self-propelled semi-submersible ships which are owned by Fairmount Heavy Transport. The mo ...

. 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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