heavy transport services plant turnaround shutdown management headquarters schiedam netherlands key people jan kleijn ceo owner shv holdings number of employees 3 200 2009 website www.mammoet.com mammoet is a privately held dutch company specializing in the hoisting and transporting of heavy objects . contents 1 history 2 company parts 3 logo 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit mammoet loading one of its own cars after a job in utrecht . mammoet office building in schiedam mammoet was founded in 1973 specialised in heavy transport over water and roads . in 2001 it was taken over by van seumeren transport . the name mammoet became the name for the new company . the daughter company mammoet shipping was sold to spliethoff and was renamed biglift shipping . it raised the russian submarine kursk . the company is experienced in the offshore petrochemical and construction industries the latter of which includes rapid bridge replacement 1 using self propelled modular transporter vehicles . mammoet headquarters in schiedam is located in a distinctive office building named de bolder the bollard . the building was fabricated in a factory and later shipped to the current location . this helped to save time and money . mammoet has additional offices in north america south america south africa and asia . the director of mammoet was roderik van seumeren . 75 % of the shares are owned by shv the remaining part is held by the van seumeren family . in 2011 all remaining stocks were sold to shv making shv the sole owner of mammoet . ceo roderik van seumeren left mammoet right after and was succeeded by jan kleijn . jan kleijn used to run the american part of the mammoet business . mammoet currently has approximately 3200 employees worldwide of which approximately 850 are employed in the netherlands . on october 18 2008 mammoet sponsored the nascar craftsman truck 12 of j.r. fitzpatrick at martinsville speedway . mammoet is dutch for mammoth . company parts edit mammoet consists of the following parts mammoet transport heavy lifting and transport mammoet salvage maritime operations in open sea and ocean mammoet merchandise mammoet merchandise products mammoet workwear mammoet company clothing mammoet trading mammoet equipment for sale mammoet wind logistic transport and installation of wind turbines logo edit two former daughters of mammoet use a similar logo mammoet road cargo heavy and special road transport mammoet ferry transport transport company between uk and continental europe mammoet ferry transport was a unit of mammoet until 2000 . after a management buy out it became an independent company . mammoet road cargo also used to be part of the mammoet holding but is now only 10 % owned by mammoet . see also edit kursk submarine disaster references edit cook maria august 10 2007 . a fast fix for a fast world . ottawa citizen . retrieved 2007 08 12 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to mammoet . official website shv mammoet s magazine for third parties mammoet netherlands in action retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mammoet & oldid 735840967 categories marine salvorsmultinational companies headquartered in the netherlandstransport companies of the netherlandsorganisations based in south hollandschiedamhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameterscommons category with page title same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutsch fran aisnederlands svenska edit links this page was last modified on 23 august 2016 at 12 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view