Archirodon Group NV is a Greek company with headquarters in Dordrecht, Netherlands and Athens, Greece, that provides services relating to the construction and maintenance of maritime infrastructure and other construction works on an international basis. The main fields of construction work are marine, dredging and land reclamation contractors; heavy contractors for the oil and gas, power and water industries; electromechanical and infrastructure contractors; geotechnical and foundation engineering services.

Archirodon Group NV
Company typePrivate
IndustryConstruction, Marine services,Oil & Gas
Founded1959
HeadquartersDordrecht, Netherlands & Athens, Greece
Area served
Europe, Middle East, Africa, CIS, United States
Key people
Dennis Karapiperis (CEO)
Revenue€1 billion (2021)
Number of employees
16,000 (2022)
Websitehttp://www.archirodon.net

Archirodon owns and operates a fleet of 155 vessels which are used for transportation, dredging, towing and docking. [citation needed]

History

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Archirodon Construction company was established in 1959 in the form of a J.V. of the Greek firms ARCHIMIDIS, Greece's foremost marine contractor at that time, and ODON & ODOSTROMATON, a road and bridge construction specialist group.

The J.V. started its professional life by building the Port of Benghazi in Libya (1961) and subsequently the Port of Beirut in Lebanon (1962). Its success soon led it to develop into a major contractor in its own merit, establishing itself in 1971 as ARCHIRODON CONSTRUCTION (OVERSEAS) CO.S.A...

Major Projects

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Offices

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Archirodon maintains offices in:[1]

Subsidiaries

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Subsidiary Country Area
Archirodon Construction (Overseas) Company Limited Cyprus Europe
Archirodon N.V Greece
Archipetrol S.A Greece
Archirodon Group N.V Netherlands
Overseas Dredging Rental B.V Netherlands
Archirodon Construction (Overseas) Co. S.A. Switzerland
SemArco LLP Kazakhstan
ARCHIRODON CONSTRUCTION (OVERSEAS) CO. S.A. KUWAIT Kuwait Middle East
HANI ARCHIRODON LLC Oman
ARCHIRODON CONSTRUCTION (OVERSEAS) CO. S.A Qatar
SAUDI ARCHIRODON LTD Saudi Arabia
SAUDI CONDRECO LTD. Saudi Arabia
ARCHIRODON CONSTRUCTION (OVERSEAS) CO. LTD. United Arab Emirates
ARCOMET FZC United Arab Emirates
ARCHIRODON CONSTRUCTION (OVERSEAS) CO. S.A. Egypt Egypt Africa
ARCHIRODON CONSTRUCTION (OVERSEAS) CO. S.A. Libya
Archirodon Group N.V Morocco
American International Contractors, Inc United States America

Criticism

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In 2001, Archirodon was involved in corruption and bid-rigging with construction bids for Egyptian water projects as discussed in the Camp David peace accord.[2]

In 2022, Archirodon drew criticism on its involvement in the port of El Aaiún, in the disputed territory of the Western Sahara, from where OCP currently only exports phosphate rock.[3]

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