Richard Soest

Shipyard Ferus Smit - Improvement as tradition

Welcome to Shipyard Ferus Smit! Our products are general cargo ships, bulkers, tankers and dedicated purpose vessels, sized up to approximately 30.000 deadweight tons. Our company has been active in shipbuilding for over 100 years. Its history is one about hard work and includes a good deal of rowing upstream if neccessary. This past reflects in what we are now. A solid family-owned company, focussing on long term continuity and relationships. Costantly in search for the smallest steps forward in improving its own processes and products. A lot of those steps over the years bring an important advantage in the end. Our improvements are driven by knowledge and craftmanship. Therefore we keep both design & engineering and production of our ships for 100% in-house. Only then we can overview and control the complete chain, assuring quality as a standard for our clients. With our workforce of 200 people we build of 6 to 8 vessels anually. The company has two building sites: at Westerbroek, Groningen (also Offices), and Leer, Germany.