ZHD Stevedores

What ZHD Stevedores does

ZHD Stevedores (legal name B.V. Zeehavenbedrijf Dordrecht) is a Dutch family-owned stevedoring company that provides cargo transhipment, storage, and integrated terminal business solutions for industrial clients handling dry bulk, break bulk, steel products, and containers. Founded in 1968, with roots tracing to a 1920 sand-winning business by Jacob Cornelis Oosterwijk, ZHD is now in its fourth generation of Bornet-family ownership, currently led by Managing Director Alain Bornet (since January 2017). The company is incorporated as a Dutch private limited company (B.V.) and operates as a subsidiary of Bornet Groep Rotterdam B.V.

The company's core technology is its own fleet of cranes and terminal infrastructure: mobile harbor cranes up to 50 tons (bulk) and 100 tons (break bulk), self-propelled floating cranes up to 100 tons capable of ship-to-ship transhipment in the Port of Rotterdam, a 50-ton bridge crane, and a Mantsinen 300M hydraulic crane. ZHD operates six terminals across the Rotterdam-Rijnmond region — Dordrecht headquarters (23 hectares, 2,000m quay, 9.45m max draught), four Moerdijk sites (Vlasweg 15 hectares, Graanweg, ZHD Staal for steel coils, and Roode Vaart under development), and a Rotterdam floating terminal serving public buoys and dolphins for larger-draught carriers. Total dry storage exceeds 125,000 m². Notable investments include KoneCranes Gottwald HMK 6407B and HPK 8200B cranes (2021) and the Mantsinen 300M (late 2021).

ZHD's revenue model is a mix of transaction-fee transhipment (charged by tonnage handled and crane utilization), usage-based storage fees (open, warehouse, container, and general cargo across its terminals), and managed-services-style "Business Solutions" long-term packages that bundle location, permits, transhipment, storage, and terminal support. Customers are primarily industrial and manufacturing enterprises — exemplified by a documented 7-year relationship with Carbones Holding GmbH (metal trading/distribution) and downstream foundries and steel manufacturers in Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, France, and Belgium. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed; GTM is enterprise field sales with multiple direct phone lines for Sales/Commerce, Planning Dordrecht/Rotterdam, and Planning Moerdijk. The company advertises round-the-clock service and turnkey support for clients requiring specialized handling of bulk, break bulk, steel, and containerized cargo.

Name

ZHD Stevedores

Legal name

B.V. Zeehavenbedrijf Dordrecht

Website

https://zhd.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1968

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

ZHD Stevedores is a fourth-generation Dutch family-owned stevedoring company that provides transhipment, storage, and integrated terminal business solutions for industrial clients handling dry bulk, break bulk, steel products, and containers across six terminals in the Rotterdam-Rijnmond region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Port Stevedoring Services

NAICS

Marine Cargo Handling (48832), Port and Harbor Operations (48831), Warehousing and Storage (493)

SIC

Water Transportation (4400), Public Warehousing & Storage (4220)

akta.pro primary industry

Stevedoring & Vessel Loading/Discharging (Ship-to-Shore Operations) (TLAHALAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Terminal Cargo Handling & Yard Operations (Receiving, Staging, Delivery) (TLAHALAB), Intermodal Container Transload (Port/Drayage Support) (TLALAFAI), Project Cargo & Heavy-Lift Transload (TLALAFAL), Bulk Terminal Services & Operations (Stevedoring, Sampling, Weighing, Blending) (TLAHABAO)

Keywords

• Port stevedoring services
• Cargo transhipment
• Bulk cargo handling
• Port terminal operations
• Industrial storage services

Headquarters

HQ city

Dordrecht

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Transhipment Services: Core revenue stream from loading and unloading of ships including dry bulk, break bulk, and containers. Charges based on tonnage handled and crane utilization.
2. Storage Services: Revenue from providing open storage, warehouse storage, container storage, and general cargo storage at terminal locations in Dordrecht and Moerdijk.
3. Business Solutions: Long-term tailor-made business solutions providing locations, permits, transhipment, storage and terminal support services for customer operations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

ZHD Stevedores provides cargo transhipment services using its own fleet of mobile, floating, and bridge cranes for handling dry bulk, break bulk, and containers at terminals across the Rotterdam-Rijnmond region. The company offers open and covered storage for bulk, general cargo, and containers, plus tailor-made long-term business solutions that combine location, permits, transhipment, storage, and terminal support services for industrial customers.

Product overview

ZHD Stevedores is a family-owned Dutch stevedoring company offering three interconnected core service lines: Transhipment (cargo handling with mobile, floating, and bridge cranes), Storage (open and covered storage for bulk, general cargo, and containers), and Business Solutions (tailor-made long-term solutions combining location, permits, and terminal support). The company operates multiple terminal facilities across the Rotterdam-Rijnmond region including Dordrecht (headquarters with 23 hectares), Moerdijk Vlasweg (15 hectares), Moerdijk Graanweg, Moerdijk ZHD Staal, Moerdijk Roode Vaart, and a floating terminal in Rotterdam for ship-to-ship operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Transhipment Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully handled record 50,000-tonne pig iron shipment - first time ever achieved for pig iron cargo
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Havenbedrijf Rotterdam (Port of Rotterdam)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 October 2018ZHD Stevedores signed agreements with Port of Rotterdam for the development of a new location at the Prins Willem Alexander-kade in Dordrecht Inland Seaport. The agreement includes a 400-meter quay, 8-hectare site with 9.45m draught. Additionally, ZHD and Port of Rotterdam signed a development agreement for Wilhelminahaven, optioning approximately 10 hectares of land. This partnership supports Port of Rotterdam's strategy to revitalize existing port areas with attention to circular economy, sustainability and water-related business activities.
• Bornet Groep Rotterdam B.V.coreOthersParent company of ZHD Stevedores (B.V. Zeehavenbedrijf Dordrecht). Wick Bornet, director of Bornet Groep Rotterdam B.V., signed the agreement for the new location at Prins Willem Alexander-kade on behalf of the parent company.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Royal Wagenborg: Dutch family-owned shipping, logistics and terminal operator combining sea transport, stevedoring and warehousing. Comparable as a long-standing family business with broad dry cargo handling capabilities and similar relationship-driven customer model.
• Verbrugge International: Benelux family-owned terminal operator handling forest products, break-bulk and project cargo across multiple sites. Comparable to ZHD in multi-terminal regional operator model serving similar industrial customers with specialized cargo handling equipment.
• Broekman Logistics: Netherlands-based logistics group with terminal operations, forwarding and break-bulk handling in Rotterdam. Directly comparable to ZHD in serving industrial customers across the Rotterdam-Rijnmond port complex with multi-modal services and on-site storage.
• Den Hartogh Logistics: Dutch-headquartered bulk logistics provider operating terminals and storage facilities for dry bulk and chemical cargoes. Similar to ZHD in combining dedicated terminals with integrated storage and multi-modal transport services for industrial customers.
• Bontrup: Rotterdam-headquartered dry bulk logistics and trading group combining bulk handling, terminal operations and metals/steel trading. Closely parallels ZHD's pig-iron and dry-bulk steel-product flows through Rotterdam-Rijnmond port terminals.
• C. Steinweg (Steinweg): Dutch family-founded stevedoring, warehousing and forwarding group operating globally with major Rotterdam footprint. Closely comparable as a multi-generational Dutch-headquartered dry-bulk, break-bulk and project cargo operator running parallel storage and transhipment activities.
• Samskip: Icelandic-Dutch multimodal logistics company combining short-sea container shipping, terminal operations and warehousing across the Netherlands. Comparable to ZHD's container, bulk and break-bulk handling at Rotterdam-area terminals.
• Matrans Maritime: Dutch shipping and stevedoring company operating in the Netherlands with break-bulk and project cargo capabilities. Comparable to ZHD's multi-commodity stevedoring service mix and North-West European geographic focus.

Broad incumbents

• Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam: CK Hutchison-owned container terminal operator at Maasvlakte in Rotterdam and Europe's largest container terminal. Serves the same port ecosystem as ZHD but at vastly larger scale and focused primarily on containerized deep-sea flows rather than dry-bulk/break-bulk.
• APM Terminals: Maersk's global terminal operating subsidiary with a major Rotterdam presence (APMT II). Operates at greater scale and with ocean-carrier integration that ZHD does not have, but operates in the same Port of Rotterdam stevedoring ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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