Oceanco has submitted plans for expansion at its Alblasserdam headquarters to the municipality of Alblasserdam. Among the plans are a second dock, a hall for workshops and a new office building.
Oceanco has submitted plans for expansion at its Alblasserdam headquarters to the municipality of Alblasserdam. Among the plans are a second dock, a hall for workshops and an office building.
The second dock will include outbuildings with a total floor area of 7500 m2 and a maximum height of 33 metres. The hall for workshops and storage areas has four floors with a total floor area of around 15,000 m2. This hall is directly adjacent to the shipbuilding hall and has a maximum height of 24 metres.
In addition, Oceanco wants to add a new 6-storey office building with a total floor area of around 12,500 m2 and a building height that varies between 33 and 12 metres. Finally, a parking building is to be constructed with stacked parking decks with a maximum building height of 18 metres. The parking building can accommodate up to 1000 vehicles, which corresponds to the expected parking requirement after expansion as described above.
In addition to the location in Alblasserdam, Oceanco also builds yachts in Zwijndrecht. In 2019, Oceanco acquired this yard from Heerema Fabrication Group in 2019.
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Accelerating sustainability
The planned expansions are to give Oceanco additional opportunities to further sharpen and accelerate the sustainability of both product and production process and existing facilities. Oceanco wants to further develop its sustainability vision, which focuses on greenhouse gas reduction and circularity, with the aim of combating climate change as much as possible.
Further electrification of the fleet, materials and equipment, the use of sustainable energy sources such as solar energy, wind energy and hydrogen and the reuse, recycling and repair of materials and products, waste reduction and the most efficient use of raw materials are also considered.
To realise the desired development, amendment of the zoning plan is necessary. However, both the mayor and aldermen of Alblasserdam support Oceanco’s plans and will initiate the procedure for the initiator’s draft zoning plan as soon as possible.
Picture: Oceanco’s headquarters in Alblasserdam (© S.J. de Waard/CC-BY-SA-4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)).
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