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Smit Internationale N.V.

Photo: Frederic Logghe 1996-2005 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
3,751
Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Smit Internationale N.V. (or Smit International) is a Dutch company operating in the maritime sector.
Founded in 1842 by Fop Smit, it provided towing services in the Port of Rotterdam. Within its first decades, it branched into shipbuilding and, just after the start of the twentieth century, salvage services. The firm developed an international presence, such as its Singapore-based subsidiary in 1975, and its acquisition of Costain Group's Land & Marine business in 1996.
By 2009, inclusive of its subsidiaries and the joint ventures with controlling stakes, Smit International operated a fleet of 408 ships. Smit International has undertaken the salvage of various vessels, including Costa Concordia, Full City, FSO Safer, MOL Comfort and Kursk.
In 2010, it was acquired by Boskalis and delisted from the Euronext Amsterdam.
Origin
Smit Internationale was founded in 1842 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder
Fop Smit
1777–1866
Dutch businessman (1777-1866)
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · file
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to Smit Internationale. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 3 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5423128 | Unclassified | Netherlands | 1963 | 1,539 | — | 77.5 m | J. & K. Smit |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 3 vessels attributed to it here, Smit Internationale is the 262nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
Netherlands is the country of registration for 78 commercial operators in this directory, among which Smit Internationale ranks 13th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 151 vessels here. See every operator registered in Netherlands.
Founded in 1842, Smit Internationale is 184 years old. This directory holds 18 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 2 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
Same country
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q1684922, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Smit International on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.