Smit Tak traces its origins to 1953 and its formation to the 1982 combination of Smit International Ocean Towage & Salvage and Smit-Tak Internationale Bergingsbedrijf, formerly W.A. Van der Tak. Its interests included Gerrit J. Eerland, van den Akker and Smit Tak Heavy Lift in Singapore, and it managed part of Röda Bolaget’s fleet. The Heavy Lift chronology is inconsistent: one passage gives 1985, with an earlier trading name supposedly ending in 1976, while another gives 1995. Rosanoski interprets 1985 as a name change.
Netherlands, Rotterdam.
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