Partner of choice

Van Oord strives to be a partner of choice by delivering solutions for the energy transition, climate adaptation and sustainable marine infrastructure. We build this position through our client focus, innovative equipment and technologies, and operational excellence. With multidisciplinary teams organised around product lines, we apply our broad marine knowledge and expertise to major client and societal challenges.

Through our Offshore Energy business unit, we contribute to the security, accessibility and affordability of energy, with a focus on offshore wind. We take a collaborative approach, working closely with developers to enable viable business cases that support the sector's growth and advance the energy transition. We strengthen our leading position in seabed intervention to protect critical offshore energy infrastructure. Our investments in 2 flexible fallpipe vessels will expand our capacity to meet growing global demand.

Our Dredging & Infra business unit targets a balanced project portfolio, delivering marine infrastructure for climate adaptation, coastal urbanisation, maritime transport and the energy transition. Our solutions protect communities and ecosystems against the impacts of climate change and deliver the infrastructure needed for a growing global economy. Beyond our modern fleet of LNG-powered trailing suction hopper dredgers, our latest investments in water injection dredgers (WIDs) and electrification of equipment reflect our focus on sustainable solutions.

Through our Ocean Health business line, we aim to become the partner of choice for enhancing marine biodiversity and protecting and restoring marine ecosystems at scale. We develop innovative concepts and pursue cross-sector partnerships in support of healthier oceans, with product solutions for coral, seaweed, mangrove, seagrass and shellfish reef restoration.

Strategic themes

Van Oord invests in fleet innovation, introducing vessels to support our strategic and sustainability ambitions. We stand for Marine ingenuity, delivered by our people and through our solutions. We invest in professional development, leadership and culture to achieve our strategic objectives.

This reflects our identity as an asset-enabled, knowledge-driven and high-performance organisation with a focus on 3 strategic themes: The Right People, Sustainability, and Digital & AI. For each theme, we have developed a strategic agenda and action plan, which we report on in the respective sections of this report.

Strategic enablers

Organisational effectiveness is essential to our position as a partner of choice. Our business process transformation programme Founding the Future and innovation platform Vox Innovation are the strategic enablers that support our 10-year strategy.

Founding the Future involves investments in our data foundation and systems to support a uniform Van Oord way of working, data-driven decision-making and collaboration. Vox Innovation initiates and streamlines innovations through a centralised programme, ensuring alignment with our strategic ambitions and increasing our competitiveness in tenders and projects.

Outlook

Looking ahead to 2026, transformation remains central to our strategy. During this time of unprecedented global uncertainty, we are building organisational resilience, pursuing operational excellence and cost discipline, and ensuring that equipment is highly available and reliable. This enables us to deliver projects to the highest standard. At the same time, we are streamlining our organisation to become more adaptable and effective.

Create a better world for future generations

Van Oord's purpose is to create a better world for future generations by delivering Marine ingenuity. As a global marine contractor with over 155 years of experience, we deliver marine infrastructure and offshore energy solutions to address global challenges and work to restore marine biodiversity at scale. Our synergistic portfolio enables integrated solutions for our clients throughout the asset lifecycle and contributes to the resilience of our company amid global uncertainty.