Highlights
Competence, commitment and confidence
I am proud of what Van Oord achieved in 2025. Geopolitical volatility and regional conflicts resulted in economic uncertainty that posed challenges to our work. By relying on our strengths, specifically our competence, commitment and confidence, we turned 2025 into a solid year. Both our operational performance and financial results exceeded last year’s results, and we made meaningful progress in preparing Van Oord for a successful future.
The world of Van Oord
The Dredging & Infra business unit delivers climate adaptation and sustainable marine infrastructure solutions. Our business unit maintained a stable baseload of dredging and marine infrastructure projects worldwide. The diversity of our portfolio strengthens Van Oord's financial health and resilience. In 2025, numerous small and medium-sized projects contributed as significantly to our results as our landmark projects.
The Offshore Energy business unit focuses on enhancing the energy transition and contributing to the security, accessibility and affordability of the global energy mix. The offshore wind market remained challenging in 2025. We continue to be a partner of choice in seabed intervention works and we delivered high-quality across cable installation and coastal energy engagements.
Spotlight topics
The Right People
Van Oord's The Right People strategy supports our journey towards becoming a high-performance organisation. In 2025, we strengthened the foundations by implementing a new HR system, investing in leadership capabilities at all levels of the organisation and fostering a culture that supports psychological safety and engagement.
Sustainability
Our Sustainable Earth Actions (S.E.A.) programme guides our sustainability ambitions. Sustainability became more embedded across the organisation in 2025. Our focus has now shifted to driving action and impact across our sustainability pillars.
Digital & AI
Digitalisation and AI are key to increasing operational efficiency. Our focus is on having a solid, secure and streamlined foundation of processes and data, supported by standardised and future-proof software solutions, networks, cloud and computing infrastructure. It is all grounded in our Founding the Future programme.
Investments
Van Oord continues to invest in an innovative fleet and crew training focused on future-proof skills. In 2025, we christened offshore wind installation vessel Boreas and water injection dredger Thor, and we commissioned the new build of 2 flexible fallpipe vessels. We also continued to move to zero emissions and improved data standardisation and connectivity.