Jan De Nul Group is a family-owned company, originally from Belgium, with a financial headquarters in Luxembourg.

The focus of their new story is on the diversity of its activities and their social relevance as a solutions provider for challenges like the transition to renewable energy, soil and water pollution and coastline protection.

[5] It also has a fleet of heavy equipment, including 77 dump trucks, 191 tracked excavators, 32 tower cranes, 64 bulldozers, 71 wheel loaders, etc.

Records Largest hopper dredgers: TSHD 'Cristobal Colon' and 'Leiv Eiriksson', capacity of 46,000 m3, maximum dredging depth of 155 m[6] Largest rock installation vessels: FPV 'Simon Stevin' and 'Joseph Plateau' with a capacity of 31,500 tonnes, rock installation possible in depths of up to 2,000 m[7] Largest cable laying vessel: CLV 'Isaac Newton', - combined turn table capacity of 12,400 tonnes[8] (2 larger vessels are on order, the 'William Thompson' and 'Fleeming Jenkin', with a capacity of 29,500 tonnes, to be delivered in 2026[9]) Largest cutter dredger: CSD 'Willem Van Rubroeck' with a cutter capacity of 8,500 kW, and a total installed power of 40,975 kW, and an operational working depth of up to 45 metres[10] Major projects realised (in part or whole) by Jan De Nul include: In April 2009, the Jan De Nul vessel "Pompei" was hijacked by Somali pirates en route from Aden to Seychelles.

The ship and its crew of ten were released after 71 days on 28 June 2009, after De Nul had paid 2.8 million Euros, according to media reports.