Fairmount Marine is a
shipping company
A shipping line or shipping company is a company whose line of business is ownership and operation of ships.
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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 mother group operates six
anchor handling tug supply vessel
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s and three
semi-submerisible barges. The main operations involves transport of
offshore installations such as
Floating production storage and offloading vessels
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The company was founded in 1980. In 2007, Fairmount Marine was acquired by Paris-based Louis Dreyfus Armateurs. In 2014, Dreyfus sold Fairmount to the Dutch Royal Boskalis, so that the Fairmount brand was abandoned in favor of Boskalis.
References
Shipping companies of the Netherlands
Supply shipping companies
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