Heerema Marine Contractors

Former Heerema building (Leiden)

Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is a contractor headquartered in the Netherlands, founded by the Dutch Nazi Pieter Schelte Heerema, a convicted Dutch SS Officer.[1] HMS is notable for operation of three of the largest crane vessels in the offshore industry.[2]


History

HMC Founder Pieter Schelte Heerema in his Nazi Dutch SS uniform at his wedding (1942)
Current Heerema building (Leiden)

Heerema Marine Contractors was formed by Pieter Schelte Heerema, an antisemitic convicted Dutch SS Officer, in 1948 as a small construction company providing oilfield platforms in Venezuela.[3][4] After World War II, Heerema had fled to Venezuela with his family from the Netherlands since he was a convicted member of the Nazi Waffen-SS.[5][6] In 2006, Pieter Schelte Heerema's son, Eric Heerema, sold his stakes of the company to buy the British wine company Nyetimber.[7] Eric Heerema has been involved in numerous controversies such as being known for mentally abusing and bullying his employees and for "flying into a rage, smashing glasses and insulting bar staff" at The Savoy in London, which subsequently blacklisted Nyetimber at its hotel and ceased doing business with Eric Heerema.[8][9] Pieter Schelte Heerema's other sons - Pieter, Edward, Hugo and Ruurd Heerema - still own stakes in the company.[10]

HMS is notable for operation of three of the largest crane vessels in the offshore industry.[11]

In the 1960s the company focused on the North Sea offshore developments. The company developed crane vessels to lift large offshore platforms and modules. The ship shaped crane vessel Challenger was equipped to lift 800 t.[12]

In 1988 HMC formed a joint venture with McDermott called HeereMac.[13]

"Thialf" in a Norway fjord

The DCV Balder was affected by a flooding incident in 2006 and was put out of service for a few months.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Press, Associated. "Ship named for Nazi war criminal to be rechristened after Jewish groups protest". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Heerema Marine Contractors". Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  3. ↑ Press, Associated. "Ship named for Nazi war criminal to be rechristened after Jewish groups protest". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Press, Associated. "Ship named for Nazi war criminal to be rechristened after Jewish groups protest". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  5. ↑ Press, Associated. "Ship named for Nazi war criminal to be rechristened after Jewish groups protest". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  6. ↑ Press, Associated. "Ship named for Nazi war criminal to be rechristened after Jewish groups protest". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  7. ↑ Gallagher, Ian. "Nazi millions and the Royals' favourite British fizz: His bubbly has beaten Bollinger to be named the world's best, but the man behind Nyetimber is son of an SS war criminal". Daily Mail. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  8. ↑ Smits, Henk Willem. "Ex-personeel hekelt 'driftige pestkop' en Quote 500-lid Eric Heerema". Quotenet. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  9. ↑ Shaw, Lucy. "NYETIMBER BANNED AT THE SAVOY". The Drinks Business. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  10. ↑ Gallagher, Ian. "Nazi millions and the Royals' favourite British fizz: His bubbly has beaten Bollinger to be named the world's best, but the man behind Nyetimber is son of an SS war criminal". Daily Mail. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  11. ↑ "Heerema Marine Contractors". Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  12. ↑ "History". Heerema Marine Contractors. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
  13. ↑ "J. Ray McDermott ends HeereMac joint venture". Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections. 28 January 1998. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
  14. ↑ "DCV Balder to re-start work in Gulf of Mexico in February". 12 January 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
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