Louis Dreyfus Armateurs founded its development on essential values : expertise, a sense of innovation and ability to react. Having taken on the most difficult challenges during more than a century, Louis Dreyfus Armateurs has acquired tremendous expertise in maritime transport and managing ships. This expertise, backed up by fleet management ISO 9002 certification, is expressed by the capacity to attain set objectives in terms of cost, lead times and safety. Innovation is another key value of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs which has always played a leading role both technologically and in business and employment matters. Finally Louis Dreyfus Armateurs' success has been based on a vital value : the ability to react. This is demonstrated by the constant determination to respond to customer's needs.

These essential values can be summed-up under the general concept of the capacity to manage INTEGRATED MARITIME PROJECTS, which we can illustrate by the realisation of the following various projects :

• In the dry bulk area :
  • Transhipment through the use of floating cranes
  • Dock type transhipper
  • Floating grain unloading terminal
  
  
• In research vessels :
  • Salvage vessel
  • Conversion of seismic vessels ( CGG MISTRAL from a trawler hull or CGG FOHN for the doubling of the seismic capacity).
  • Conversion of cable laying vessel (Ile de Ré from a RoRo vessel).
  
  
• But also in various other fields :
  • Industrial projects such as the recent successful conclusion of various supply contracts for independent power plants (IPP's) in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand etc.
  • Oil product feedering floating terminal
  • Liquid CO² carrier
  • Specialised steel coils river / sea vessel