Our drive for creativity and technological innovation to supply energy to the world in an ever faster, safer, more efficient and sustainable way.
This is what has taken EXMAR to where it is now: a respected, specialised maritime shipping company offering tailor-made and innovative energy solutions to the oil and gas industry.
Under the guidance of Georges Van Damme, the postwar period saw the rapid expansion of the Boelwerf yard, with 27 ships built for Russia and new investments in infrastructure to build larger, sophisticated seagoing vessels. Milestones included the delivery of LNG carrier METHANIA in 1978 and EXMAR's first LPG gas carrier CORAL TEMSE in 1981, which coincided with the appointment of Van Damme's son-in-law Philippe Saverys as Chairman.
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EXMAR's origins emanate from the banks of the river Scheldt, with the emergence of a humble yard for building wooden river craft in 1829 into a major industrial wharf which constructed the largest inland waterway vessel of its kind in Europe in 1911 - the 112 metre GRAAF DE SMET-DE NAYER.
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