Maritime companies in Belgium

Anglo Belgian Corporation with headquarters in Gent, Belgium has more than a century of engine-building expertise. The company was founded in 1912 by a group of Belgian entrepreneurs soon after building the first licenced Rudolf Diesel engine. The company designs and manufactures medium-speed, four-stroke, diesel engines for marine, traction, power generation applications, and turnkey power plants around the world.

Brabo Group has been a pioneer and frontrunner in participatory entrepreneurship since 1931. The Port of Antwerp is a world in itself. Very few outsiders know what really goes on in Europe’s second largest port. Everyone is familiar with the classic picture of ships coming and going to load and unload goods.

Brusselle Carral Marine NV”, located in Zeebrugge, is a company specialised in designing, manufacturing, and maintaining robust, medium to large winches and hydraulic steering gear tailored to the clients’ needs. Their customers including shipyards, shipowners, and port authorities, rely on their experience and expertise.

CMB.TECH builds, owns, operates and designs large marine and industrial applications that run on hydrogen and ammonia. CMB.TECH also offers hydrogen and ammonia fuel to its customers, either through own production or by sourcing it from third party producers.

Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) is a privately owned company, based in Antwerp, Belgium and with offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Brentwood and Hamburg. At present CMB is active in the marine sector areas of dry bulk shipping — Bocimar, container shipping — Delphis, chemical tankers — Bochem, innovation and development - CMB.TECH, Crew Transfer Vessels (CTWs) - Windcat Workboats, real estate - Reslea and Maritime Campus Antwerp.

DEME is a pioneering contractor in the fields of offshore energy, environmental remediation, dredging and marine infrastructure. DEME also engages in concessions activities in offshore wind, marine infrastructure, green hydrogen, and deep-sea mineral harvesting. The company can build on more than 145 years of experience and is a front runner in innovation and new technologies.

dotOcean, based in Brugge with hubs in Gent and Leuven, Belgium, is a leader in pioneering autonomous control and advanced situational awareness software technology for the maritime, civil and security industry. With its AYB (Automate Boat) technology in combination with situational awareness it is able to make new or existing vessels and vehicles autonomous and intelligent.

DEME is a world leader in the highly specialised fields of dredging, solutions for the offshore energy market, infra marine and environmental works. With more than 140 years of experience and 5,200 highly skilled professionals, we bring tailor-made solutions, innovation and new technologies to our customers’ projects, ensuring that they are performed safely, efficiently and cost-effectively.

DSV - Global Transport and Logistics provide and manage supply chain solutions for thousands of companies everyday, ranging from the small family-run businesses to the large global corporations. They want to be a leading global supplier, fulfilling customer needs for transport and logistics services, targeting extensive growth and being among the most profitable in the maritime and shipping industry.

EDR Antwerp Shipyard – Reclaiming the position as a preferred shipyard in Europe and setting new standards of excellence in ship repair, maintenance, and construction. Excelling in the shipyard industry, creating long-term partnerships with all the stakeholders, driven to increase value to their core business and reduce the environmental footprint in the shipping industry.

The eFuel Alliance is an interest group committed to promoting the political and social acceptance of eFuels and to securing their regulatory approval. It stand for fair competition and a level playing field for all relevant emission reduction solutions.

Elia is Belgium’s high-voltage transmission system operator (380 kV to 30 kV). As it is part of a Group being one of Europe’s top five TSOs, it is also a key player at the European level. The company plays a crucial role in the community by transmitting electricity from generators to distribution system operators and major industrial consumers, while also importing and exporting electricity from and to neighbouring countries.

As part of the Belgian Esco-group, Esco Power is known for solutions in transmissions for industry and marine applications.

Euronav people bring to the job a rich diversity of educational and professional qualifications, including professionals with engineering, finance, business administration, legal and humanities backgrounds, who have specialised in tanker operations, crewing, marine and technical areas and shipping corporate services. Virtually everyone speaks at least two languages fluently and half the staff speaks three or more languages.

European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) mission is to support stakeholders in delivering the European Green Deal through high-quality programme management. The Agency is strongly committed to fight against fraud or other serious irregularities with a potentially negative impact for EU public funds.

European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) is the primary institution and public voice of the European shipping industry. The European shipping industry is a success story and a geostrategic asset to the EU in the face of global challenges. European shipowners operate one of the largest, youngest and most innovative fleets in the world.

Dredging involves many different skills. Although essentially a civil engineering activity, the work requires knowledge of mechanical and electrical engineering, electronics, naval architecture, the marine environment and many other disciplines. Above all it is a practical subject. Many of the activities are computerised and highly automated, but there is still great reliance on the experience of those involved in both the planning .

EMODnet is a long term marine data initiative. After completing its vision targets by 2020, EMODnet is now fully operational and further developed in its fourth phase. More than 120 partner organisations are currently involved in the EMODnet programme; new contributors are always welcome via the EMODnet Associated Partnership Scheme.

EXMAR is a diversified and independent shipping group serving the international gas and oil industry. Apart from providing the ships for the transportation of these products, it also performs studies and undertakes the management of commercial, technical and administrative activities for the industry.

Headquartered in Belgium, Fluxys is a fully independent energy infrastructure group with 1,300 employees active in gas transmission & storage and liquefied natural gas terminals. They operate in Europe and are developing activities in South America and Southeast Asia.

GEOxyz has established itself as a European service provider, focusing on Marine surveys and Offshore Renewable support activities. Our expertise, people, equipment, and technology provides our clients with the information and data required to design, construct and maintain structures and infrastructures. GEOxyz carries out activities across Europe and performs specific projects all over the world.

DC INDUSTRIAL company is based in Brussels-Belgium. The company has set itself a goal to obtain all harbour and marine dredging work as well as fluvial and general waterways dredging work. France is a very atractive market for the company with many maintenance dredging contracts executed.

ICO serves an extensive network of shipping companies visiting a range of destinations all over the world from and to all continents. The terminals in Zeebrugge and Antwerp are important hubs for the handling of roll-on/roll-off goods, with smooth inland connections in Europe by truck or train, or via shortsea connection to UK, the Baltic area, and even to St. Petersburg in Russia.

IMC was founded as International Marine Consultancy in 1996 as a privately held brokerage firm that specialized in towage, sale & purchase and chartering. The headquarters of IMC are located in Antwerp, Belgium. IMC is frequently called upon by dredging contractors, construction companies and renewable energy developers to source suitable floating equipment to support a variety of maritime projects, worldwide.

Kpler is a fast-growing data and analytics firm on a mission to build one platform for global trade intelligence. Imagine a world where individuals and organisations have seamless and timely access to the most comprehensive and trustworthy data and insights on commodities, energy, containerised goods, and other crucial aspects of global trade. This world is Kpler.

MAHI is on a mission to unlock the potential of manned and unmanned vessels. It realises this ambition by delivering state-of-the-art, easy-to-integrate situational awareness, communication, and collision avoidance modules to customers. The goal is to increase operational capabilities and reduce cost and time-to-market.

Mullion is a producer of Marine Safety and Personal Floatation Devices that are designed to protect lives in some of the harshest and unforgiving environments. Their Lifejackets, Floatation and Immersion suits combine comfort and durability with technical safety and protection.

Nxtport is at the forefront of data sharing opportunities in complex ecosystems. Nxtport was created in 2016 when several leading maritime and logistic companies and industry associations joined forces to address key challenges faced by the Port of Antwerp players.

Oceanic Marine Contractors (OMC) is an international offshore contractor specialised in the installation of offshore structures, subsea pipelines, subsea structures, together with platform removal and dredging. From their headquarter in Dubai and with over 500 highly qualified staff worldwide.