Fourth Feadship yard taking shape in Amsterdam

Feadship has celebrated a major milestone in the construction of its fourth shipyard, located in a prime waterside location in the heart of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

In the presence of invited guests, the first concrete was poured into the giant drydock, part of the impressive feat of engineering involved in building such a facility in a city that is several metres under sea level.

When completed at the end of 2018, the yard will also include a giant hall for building new superyachts of up to 160 metres (525 foot) in length along with refits of existing Feadships.

The Amsterdam yard will be the second facility operated by Royal Van Lent, which will also continue to operate its Kaag Island yard at full capacity. The two premises will share the same management team and corporate culture, with some 450 employees from across the spectrum of outfitting and refit activities moving between the facilities when required.

Along with the two Feadship yards run by Koninklijke De Vries in Aalsmeer and Makkum, there will now be a total of four Feadship facilities in the Netherlands.

Jan-Bart Verkuyl, director at Feadship and CEO of Royal Van Lent, explained, “This major investment illustrates our determination to be fully future-proof. The average length of the superyachts we are building continues to grow: the majority of projects currently underway are above 80 metres and there is a clear trend to go ever larger.

“The size limitations imposed by the location of the two original Feadship yards in Aalsmeer and Kaag were partly solved by the third yard opened in Makkum in 2005, and this fourth facility in the Port of Amsterdam will complete this expansion.”

For more information, visit Feadship.

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