Bodewes Group Takes Over Volharding Shipyards
The Bodewes Group has bought Volharding Shipyards in Harlingen. Volharding started in 1993 as Frisian Shipyard.
With this transaction, the company significantly strengthen her position in reparation and new building constructions. Bodewes already owns shipyards in Hasselt and in Meppel. Despite the current economic climate the Bodewes Group has filled her order book and receives more and more enquiries for vessels with more draught, a wider breadth or length and more tonnage. For this, the shipyard in Harlingen offers good possibilities and is able to lift vessels with a dimension of 120 x 20 m and a weight of 4.500 tons, several repair facilities and new building halls where new building vessels can be built, completely covered. The expansion fits in the company’s philosophy: to build original Dutch products at shipyards with a combination of new building and reparation.
The facilities of Volharding Shipyards are now partially rented by Shipdock Harlingen (recently acquired by the Damen Group) and Barkmeijer Stroobos for building pilot boats. The transfer will take place May, 2013.