Van der Kamp International Dredging B.V.
Since the end of the 19th century, 5th generation, the family-owned company Van der Kamp is active as a shipping company and trader in construction materials. Later on, these activities will be extended with the winning and trade of sand and gravel. In 1926, Van der Kamp builds as one of the first companies a self-propelled sand dredger “Stad Zwolle”. In the sixties Van der Kamp moves towards the concrete market and builds several concrete plant facilities.
In the seventies, the dredging company was founded, which specializes in maintenance dredging with trailing suction hopper dredgers. Since 1980, this company enters into an agreement with the Dutch Government for combatting oil pollution at sea. The company also carries beach replenishments.
Van der Kamp has a rich history. Unchanged is the good relationship with customers, based on quality, flexibility and reliability. Our ambition is to improve efficiency constantly. On principle, our company does not work on Sundays. On this website, we offer you information about the various activities.
History
In the seventies, our company first started on inland waterways carrying out maintenance dredging with trailing suction hopper dredgers. The old bucket dredger loses more and more ground. After that, our working area extended to the coastal waters. The current dredging company has about 70 highly motivated employees and they are one big family. Because of which they stay with the company for many years. Good people are the driving force of our company.
National & international
Van der Kamp carries out maintenance dredging work in The Netherlands, German ports and waterways, including Rotterdam and Hamburg. In addition, we also execute work in other European countries. Besides maintenance dredging we are active in coastal defences, bringing sand on the beach by pumping ashore or dump sand in the foreshore. Our ships are specially designed to dump on shallow water. By development in our own company, our dredgers have the highest possible production. Of course, the motivation of the employees plays an important role.
Innovative
Innovation keeps our company in the race. We introduced the underwater plough in The Netherlands. From this plough we have developed as one of the first companies the system of the hydrodynamic plough or water injection. In addition to dump into very shallow water, we are able to reach dredging depths up to 40 meters. One of our hopper dredgers has the unique ability to load and unload barges. Three of our seagoing hopper dredgers are permanently equipped with sweeping arms for combatting oil pollution at sea. Our hopper dredgers are capable to discharge with bottom slides/doors and with shore delivery units to land. Thanks to built-in booster pumps, it is possible to discharge with pipelines over considerable distances.
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