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The Boelwerf, initially called J. Boel & Zonen, was a Belgian shipyard, located in Temse by the river Scheldt. It produced ships from 1829 until 1994. ==History== The Boelwerf was founded in 1829 by Bernard Boel (1798-1872), who had worked as a carpenter at the Antwerpen South shipyards. He was succeeded by his son Jozef Boel. During the first fifty years of its existence, the shipyard built wooden ships and employed a limited number of workers. The company built only one ship a year, mainly tjalks. Starting from 1900, the number of ships built, and with it the number of employees, grew steadily. After World War II, ''J. Boel & Zonen'' flourished after breaking through internationally. At the company's 150th birthday, the ''Zaat'', as the shipyard was known in the local dialect, counted 3,000 employees. A considerable part of them were locals from Temse. The anniversary coincided with the construction of a 57,000 m³ LPG carrier with the symbolic construction number 1500: the ''Petrogas II'', which still sails under the Singapore flag and is now called ''Hariette N''. During the same period, the Boelwerf's trade union delegation became a model of ''strijdsyndicalisme'' ("battle unionism") in Belgium. The leaders of this delegation, Jan Cap (ACV) and Karel Heirbaut (ABVV) often got national attention for their actions. On 19 December 1980, ''J. Boel & Zonen'' underwent a series of demergers. Several holding and shipping companies, such as the Almabo holding and its gas carrier division Exmar, were sliced off, leaving only the actual shipyard, now called ''Boelwerf''. After Cockerill Yards, a shipyard in Hoboken, across the river Scheldt, had gone bankrupt, the Boelwerf acquired Cockerill's shipyard. Following this merger, the company employed 3,500 workers in two large shipyards. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boelwerf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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