DC Dredging B.V. (GROUP DE CLOEDT)

It was Johannes De Cloedt, a Flemish civil contractor, who in 1875 took the step from shore to water and started to specialise in hydraulic works, mainly maintenance dredging works in Ostend. The De Cloedt family built up a lot of experience in aggregate and maintenance dredging as well as hydraulic and civil works during these 150 years. In 1981 the family started an aggregate company in the harbour of Nieuwpoort (Belgium). Later, new waterbound aggregate terminals were established in the maritime ports of Ostend and Bruges. Since the mid-1990s Group De Cloedt has followed with great interest the evolution and growth of inland waterway traffic in Europe, and De Cloedt's first inland terminal was operational in 1997. In 2000, Eng. Gery De Cloedt started to shape his group. Today Group De Cloedt comprises 5 divisions: dredging, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, environment and soil treatment.