Haven Den Helder

A&S Engineering set up shop in Den Helder some twenty years ago. It has a modern operations centre and is specialised in hydraulics, pneumatics, and diesel technology. In this connection, A&S Engineering inspects, repairs and maintains technical systems for onshore businesses as well as for the maritime, fishing and offshore industries. A&S Engineering regularly carries out IRM work aboard supply vessels and seismic craft in the Den Helder harbour. Furthermore the company is specialised in engine overhauls.

A. van Veen Transport, set up in 1985, works in the area of national and international freight transport. The company has a fleet of trucks, including special equipment for transporting products that are unusually wide and long. A great deal of transport work is carried out for the offshore industry. The company also has refrigerated truck for the transport of fish, flowers and fruit.

Den Helder-based Acta Marine can offer customers access to an unrivalled large and versatile fleet of more than sixty workboats, that can be deployed everywhere in the world. One of the special features is working in very shallow waters. The company has always workboats at the ready in Den Helder.

AdviSafe Risk Management is a private company, based in Den Helder, and at Balzan, Malta. The company is specialised in all disciplines related to risk management. Risks in terms of incidents, accidents, financial loss, quality, or loss of reputation. The main objective of AdviSafe Risk Management is to assist its clients in their activities in the identification, evaluation and control of risks and minimizing the consequences of incidents and other business disturbances. AdviSafe Risk Management has had extensive experience with blue chip clients in major hazard and high asset value sectors, such as the international oil and gas, petrochemical, rail, marine and paper fabrication, as well as the public sector.

AJS is a joint venture organisation, set up by AMEC Oil and Gas, Jacobs Engineering Netherlands BV and Stork Industry Services Netherlands BV to deliver integrated services to ONEgas (Shell Expro/NAM). AJS offers management, engineering, maintenance and operational support services for all the offshore production facilities of Shell Expro and NAM in the UK and the Dutch sector of the southern part of the North Sea, which includes 51 offshore assets and the gas plants in Den Helder and Bacton (UK).

AJS has offices at Assen, Amsterdam, Den Helder Airport in the Netherlands and at Great Yarmouth and Norwich in the United Kingdom.

Located at Den Helder Airport

Allseas Maritime Personnel (AMP) is actively involved in the recruitment of maritime personnel for vessels operating for the merchant navy and on supporting vessels for the oil and gas industry. The manning agency is located in the port of Den Helder. For a vast number of Dutch and foreign shipping companies AMP provides part or complete crew management. For shipping companies it means an enormous reduction in their daily operational crewing activities. In 2003 the company introduced a new Personnel Data System, specifically designed to recruit and administer seafarers, including wages administration, visa application, crew''s insurances and owner''s related employment specifications.

Amafiltergroup Alkmaar, with branches in the Netherlands, England, France, Italy and the United States, is a leading, worldwide-operating group of companies with more than fifty years experience in filtration technology. In the Netherlands, the group has offices in Alkmaar and Lochem. The group’s products and systems are used in the oil and gas industry, chemical and petrochemical sector, power generation, pharmaceuticals, the food and drinks industry, and water purification. As well as its own branches, the group also operates an extensive network of agencies, worldwide.

Den Helder-based Andritz BV is a subsidiary of Andritz AG, Graz, Austria. This company is a global leader in design and manufacture of decanter centrifuges for the treatment of drilling mud and oil-containing mud. Andritz BV provides maintenance and repair services for Bird, KHD and Guinard industrial centrifuges.

The Offshore Medical Centre at Den Helder Airport focuses on safety, health and welfare services in the medical field. The services include the compulsory medical examination for oil companies, offshore companies and shipping companies. Two doctors work at the centre who also focus on absenteeism guidance.

Located at Den Helder Airport.

Accidental Spill Control Consultancy (ASCC) is an independent consultancy agency specialised in the field of oil and chemical spill response on inland waters, coastline and sea. Since 1989 ACSS has been working in the field of emergency management issues for the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works, the European Commission, and many other national and international organisations.

ASCC provides both research, development and consultancy in the field of modelling, training, impact assessment and spill response technologies. In this way, ASCC has contributed significantly to the knowledge and methodologies regarding the whole area of spill control at sea, coastline and inland waters. ASCC also focuses on training development. Oil spill response courses and chemical spill control courses on various levels are given by the agency.

Atlas Tristar, with offices in Den Helder and Hoofddorp, places temporary specialist personnel in the oil and gas industry for short, medium and long-term assignments everywhere in the world. The company is in the onshore and offshore oil and gas industry active in the field of production, maintenance, well services, drilling and engineering. In addition to recruitment and selection, Altas Tristar is also specialized in career planning, interim management and pay-rolling.

Atlas Tristar has a ''well service pool''. This is a group of over 30 technical specialists who can be deployed quickly and flexibly if an oil company or service company has a specific problem. Atlas Tristar is a member of the Atlas Services Group, which has offices in the UK, Canada, Latvia, Ukraine, Cyprus, Brazil and Malaysia. Atlas Employability Services, also a member of Atlas Services Group, is specialized in reintegration and outplacement.

Located at Den Helder Airport.

The Associatie voor Technologie Overdracht Noord-Holland (Association for Technology Transfer, ATO-NH) is the knowledge intermediary for sustainable energy for businesses and the SME. ATO N-H works together with knowledge institutes, educational institutes and governmental organisations and initiates, simulates and coordinates broad, industrial innovations based on high-quality knowledge networks. The purpose is sustainable employment in the region. ATO N-H carries out the sustainable energy policy of the Province of North Holland. ATO N-H has for example worked on large and small-scale applications of wind energy, solar energy and biomass. ATO N-H works on product developments in the area of system integration, for example composite materials, fuel cells and electrical power, biomass, transport fuels and CO2 neutral production systems. ATO N-H links practical, innovative solutions to successful operations through carrying out and supporting projects.