With the Maritime Innovation Award and a nomination for the DAME Award in the bag, METS could not have got off to a better start for DMS Holland.
This promising start was paired with a fitting sequel having received a Special Mention for the AntiRoll stabilization system during the presentation of the Dame Award.
Co-owner and commercial director of DMS Holland, Patrick Noor: “Naturally, we had hoped to win the Dame Award 2014, especially having already recently been awarded the Maritime Innovation Award. However, this Special Mention also carries distinctive value and, together with winning the Maritime Innovation Award, certainly contributed to the large numbers of visitors at our stand. We can look back on a very successful METS.”
Arnold van Aken, engineering director of DMS Holland: “What really struck me about the visitors to our stand was the purpose with which they visited the booth. Practically every visitor proved to be well informed about our company and products. The questions they put forward were also technical and very detailed. It just goes to show how our innovative stabilization systems are recognized and acknowledged by the industry.”
In practise, Van Aken’s conclusion is indeed supported. Just before the exhibition, DSM Holland received an order for an AntiRoll system for the 50 meter Feadship ‘Endless Summer’, which will set sail in the summer of 2015. During METS, DMS Holland was blessed, quite literally, with ‘a gift from God’ in the form of an order for the 33m motor yacht Kuriakos, whose name means just that. Whilst its name may suggest it was built by Noah, this ‘gift from God’ is in fact being built by Koninklijke De Vries Scheepsbouw (Feadship). As the owners are fully aware that forces from above can certainly ‘shake up those waters’, they have appointed DMS to equip their yacht with one of their stabilization systems.
In addition to these orders for AntiRoll, there were also a dozen orders for the RotorSwing stabilization system which can be added to the list.
Patrick Noor: “These results are of course better than expected. We are fortunate enough to find ourselves in such a ‘blessed’ situation, so to speak. It is clear: the market is open to innovation. It started, incidentally, with the shipyard Wim van der Valk. They were absolutely the ‘innovator’ and catalyst for AntiRoll. Van der Valk is committed to technology and innovation and had confidence in AntiRoll from the very beginning. The first AntiRoll system is currently being installed by them in a 37 meter trawler that will be launched next spring.
