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Baars BV at Sliedrecht was a Dutch shipyard on the Nieuwe Merwede
River to the SE of Rotterdam. Website,
English version: Founded in 1920 by Arie Baars, the shipyard specialized
in barges many of which served the dredging industry: Baars Charter, formerly
named ‘A.Baars Exploitatie van Baggermaterieel BV’ (i.e. A.Baars Exploitation
of Dredging Equipment) was established to help market these vessels (1925).
1996 however saw the end of shipbuilding when the owners decided to
concentrate on leasing and selling whereas Baars Confloat BV was founded
to exploit coupling pontoons and other equipment. More on them is found
via left menu.
Original image was found in a Marktplaats (Dutch auction site) offer:
no. 176391071 by “skipvlag” of Maastricht, accessed 19 Jun 2008, dimensions
given as 0.45 [cm] x 0.70 [cm]: White, bearing the logo next to the hoist
accompanied by dark blue company name “baars” (lower case letters, no serifs)
above light blue place name “SLIEDRECHT” (left aligned, smaller and shorter
but upper case, no serifs either).
This logo is a highly stylized anchor, placed diagonally, stock at
upper left - relief is suggested by dark blue and light blue design elements.
It looms large on this
Confloat page (in Dutch – the “flags” on the pontoon at end of page
are really panels).
No rectangular flag spotted yet. Above company must not be confused
with Baars Engineering, also at Sliedrecht.
Jan Mertens, 8 Jun 2009
Baars was established in 1832. Baars Charter B.V. (Besloten vennootschap)
(English: Private company or Limited) specializes in the rental and sale of
modular pontoons, dredging containers, such as elevator containers, split barges
and hopper barges specially for (contaminated) sludge.
Baars Confloat
B.V. (Besloten vennootschap) (English: Private company or Limited) is market
leader of modular “containerized” pontoons for many years. The unique modular
Confloat system (nut-bolt connection) guarantees absorption of high dynamic and
static forces. We have a large number of units available for rental and sale,
new and young used. Next to it you can choose for a wide range of mono “hull”
pontoons' and offshore Jack-ups consisting of container pontoons for all your
heavy equipment.
Sources: https://www.baarsbv.com/ and
https://www.baarsbv.com/historie/
For additional information go to Baars BV (official website): https://www.baarsbv.com/
Esteban Rivera, 10 April 2023
images located by Esteban Rivera, 10 April 2023
Sources:
https://www.baarsbv.com/,
https://www.pla.co.uk/
Although Jan Mertens mentioned on June 8, 2009 in the already mentioned
section the following: "No rectangular flag spotted yet. Above company must not
be confused with Baars Engineering, also at Sliedrecht" in the end a horizontal
(rectangular) flag does exist and also it is most likely that the shipyard is
either a business unit of the main company or it is at least operated by it, so
it is related.
The flag is a horizontal white
background with the logo in the middle.
Logo
image located by Esteban Rivera, 10 April 2023
Source:
https://dva-engineering.nl