Building vessels outside The Netherlands

IHC Global Production holds responsibility for building vessels outside The Netherlands. It selects the shipyards, sets up the partnerships and conducts the project management work for the complete delivery of vessels.

Therefore, the business unit’s main tasks include:

• international supply chain management (purchasing in other countries, such as China)
• international logistics (transporting a large proportion of equipment from Europe to the shipyard, if a vessel is being built abroad)
• interface management – or engineering (connecting IHC Merwede’s technicians to their counterparts at the shipyard by channeling all of the relevant information and questions)
• organizing all of the local work (including supervision and commissioning tasks, and human-resource elements, such as housing, schools etc).