subsidiary industry maritime services founded 1842 founder fop smit headquarters rotterdam netherlands key people frank verhoeven chairman services towage salvage transportation heavy lifting vessels revenue 589.0 million 2009 1 operating income 104.6 million 2009 1 profit 102.4 million 2009 1 owner royal boskalis westminster number of employees 3 620 2009 1 website www.smit.com taklift 7 with a lifting capacity of 1600 tons 2 owned by smit internationale one of smit s ocean going tugs smit internationale n.v. or smit international is a dutch company operating in the maritime sector . the company was founded in 1842 by fop smit as a towage company with only the 140 horsepower paddle steamer tug kinderdijk . fop s sons jan and leendert continued the company under the name l.smit & co and expanded the fleet . in 1870 they began using tugs with propellers . after a merger in 1923 with internationale sleepdienst the name was changed to l. smit & co. s internationale sleepdienst . formerly listed at the nyse euronext stock exchange in amsterdam the company was fully acquired by royal boskalis westminster in 2010 . 3 contents 1 takeover 2 corporate structure 3 fleet list 4 high profile operations 5 references 6 external links takeover edit dutch marine engineer boskalis made an indicative 1.11 billion takeover offer for smit on 15 september 2008 . 4 despite the offer being promptly rejected by smit s board boskalis subsequently built a stake of over 25 % in the firm 5 and expressed a continuing desire to buy a number of its business units . 6 a revised offer from boskalis of 1.35 billion coupled with a pledge to retain the smit name and its distinct operations was accepted by the firm s board in january 2010 with boskalis declaring its offer unconditional that march having reached share ownership of 90 % . 7 smit s shares were delisted from the amsterdam stock exchange on 4 may 2010 . 8 corporate structure edit the company consist of four divisions in order of revenue transport & heavy lift 33.5 % of total revenues salvage 23.9 % harbour towage 22.8 % terminals 19.8 % for larger salvaging projects the company often uses joint ventures or combinations for such a specific project . an example of this is combinatie berging tricolor dutch for combination salvaging tricolor which was created solely for the lifting of the mv tricolor . a similar multi firm arrangement was made for the 2013 2014 salvage of the costa concordia passenger cruise ship . fleet list edit for these three businesses smit together with its daughter companies and the joint ventures that are controlled by smit has an extensive fleet of 408 ships as per 1 march 2009 9 type of vessel details on power tonnage etc. harbour towage terminals transport & heavy lift total 9 ocean going tug 14000 26000 hp 3 3 ocean going tug 6140 hp 1 1 anchor handling tugs 10000 15000 hp 2 2 4 anchor handling tugs 8000 hp 2 4 6 anchor handling tugs 3000 8000 hp 1 20 21 diving support vessel 2 2 utility vessels 5 5 floating sheerlegs seagoing 3200 tonnes 1 1 floating sheerlegs seagoing 3200 tonnes 8 8 pulling barges 2 2 seagoing barges 24000 tonnes 3 3 seagoing barges 1000 14000 tonnes 2 1 3 seagoing barges 1000 8000 tonnes 10 19 29 inland barges 100 2000 tonnes 28 26 54 coastal harbour tugs 3000 6000 hp 109 31 2 142 coastal harbour tugs 1000 3000 hp 37 4 2 43 harbour river tugs 100 1000 hp 9 2 1 12 harbour river pusher tugs 480 2800 hp 5 5 various vessels work vessels oil containment vessels etc. 17 18 29 38 total fleet 213 60 135 480 high profile operations edit its marine salvage division was involved in several high profile salvage operations including 10 ss london valour 11 1971 72 mt betelgeuse 1979 80 ms herald of free enterprise 1987 the russian submarine kursk lifting vessel 2000 ehime maru 2001 mv prestige 2002 mv tricolor lifting vessel 2002 2003 mv rocknes 2004 mv mighty servant 3 2006 ms und adriyatik 2008 ms costa concordia oil containment 2012 uss guardian grounded in philippines 2013 mol comfort mysteriously sunk in june of 2013 . internationally smit international is known mostly for its expertise in salvage operations . often unrealized is the environmental importance of oil removal in many salvage operations . smit international has dedicated much research into their modern equipment used to extract remaining oil of sunken vessels . they have also partnered with the french firm jlmd system to support preinstalled fast oil recovery systems which assure quick reliable oil removal in the event of a shipping accident . references edit a b c d annual report 2009 pdf . smit international . retrieved 2010 05 07 . http www.boskalis.com uploads media taklift 7 01.pdf smit s world history . retrieved 4 october 2011 . kreijger gilbert ; ten wolde harro 15 september 2008 . boskalis plans 1.1 bln euro bid for smit . reuters . retrieved 1 october 2010 . gray block aaron 2 february 2009 . boskalis ups stake in smit could buy more shares . reuters . retrieved 2009 05 30 . van tartwijk maarten 14 may 2009 . boskalis ceo ambition to buy several smit units . dow jones newswires . the wall street journal . retrieved 2009 05 30 . dead link roumeliotis greg 27 march 2010 . boskalis clears smit takeover milestone . reuters . retrieved 29 march 2010 . application made for delisting smit press release . boskalis . 7 april 2010 . retrieved 7 may 2010 . a b official fleetlist per 1 march 2009 as published on companies website retrieved 12 february 2012 smit s website on salvage projects visited 12 february 2012 gatti carlo april 2010 . the running aground and the shipwreck of the british cargo ship london valour . societa capitani e macchinisti navali camogli . retrieved 11 april 2013 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title smit international & oldid 702722128 categories companies of the netherlandsmarine salvagehidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from september 2010 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 aisitalianonederlands edit links this page was last modified on 1 february 2016 at 08 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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