Damen is an international shipyard group but, at heart, they are still a family company. Whatever they do – whether it’s in their building activities or their services – they always aim to match their customers’ needs and exceed their expectations.
They operate in every market where they see an opportunity to improve, innovate or invest. How do they build better boats? They listen carefully to their customers and they invest a great deal in innovation, research and development.
At Damen, it's all about ships - it's what they do, it's who they are. They design them, they build them, they service them. They live them! They have a vision and they are on a mission. Read about them here, in their global Vision & Mission statement.
Mission
Damen is a client-focused, international and family-owned shipbuilder with Dutch roots. They design and build innovative ships of excellent quality, supported by a worldwide network of sales and services including maintenance and repair & conversion facilities.
Vision
Their aim is to become a global market leader in the niche markets of shipbuilding, shiprepair & conversion and related services, growing step by step developing quality vessels and services. They want to exceed their clients’ expectations in terms of quality, innovation and reliability. Building successful relationships with customers, partners and employees in a safe environment.
Damen’s unique shipbuilding concept is based on what their customers want: the best quality, proven designs, short delivery times, low maintenance and excellent resale value. The result is a work method with the ideal balance between standardisation and custom-built vessels. And of course They offer a broad range of customer services.
Fundamental values
They deliver well-proven and thoroughly tested design and technology in competitively priced and innovative vessels. Client feedback is vital – it’s how they can standardise their hulls for each niche market.
Customising the standard
Their standardised shipbuilding approach, known as The Damen Standard, has become one of their fundamental core values. By building a wide variety of standard hulls for stock purposes, they can substantially reduce delivery times. However, these standardised vessels can be tailor-made with a wide variety of options. They fine-tune every Damen ship down to the last detail to meet specific customer requirements.
Their unique, standardised shipbuilding concept is called The Damen Standard. It gives us the ability to offer their customers well-proven, innovative vessels for competitive prices. The standard hulls, which all have proven designs, can also be modified to meet customer wishes and equipped with various options to suit specific jobs and regulations.
Advantages of standardisation
Standard hulls finished to your requirements
Damen vessels are of the highest quality standard, built for maximum performance, low fuel consumption and designed to have low maintenance. They have years of experience in the engineering, building and testing of these standard hulls. And they keep a wide range of these proven, standard hulls in stock. That’s why they can guarantee the best result and the shortest delivery time.
