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Royal Vopak N.V. ((オランダ語:Koninklijke Vopak)) is a Dutch company that stores and handles various oil and natural gas-related products. The company was created by the merger of Van Ommeren and Pakhoed in 1999. In 2002, the distribution of oil and natural gas related products was split off; a new company Univar was created for that purpose. The head office is located in Rotterdam. Vopak is listed on the AMX index of Euronext Amsterdam. ==Merger== In 1998 the companies Royal Pakhoed nv and Royal van Ommeren nv decided to merge. Both companies were offering storage services for oil-, (petro)chemical products, vegetable oils etc. Both companies were also active on the market of shipping (tankers) and other logistical services. Besides their overlapping activities Van Ommeren offered heavy-goods transport via Dockwise and Pakhoed offered distribution services for chemical products via the company Univar. The European Commission ruled that the merger would give the combined company too much market power in storage services in the Antwerp-Rotterdam-Amsterdam (ARA)-area, on which made the offer to sell parts of their storage-tank capacity. The EC ruled this as insufficient and the merger was canceled.〔EC gives green light for merger after selling part of the storage services, 10 September 1999 (link to press-release, Visited 2 September, 2013 )〕 Renewed negotiations resulted in the combination selling the Pakhoed terminals in Pernis and Botlek as well as van Ommeren selling their stake in Gamatext in the Port of Antwerp. This new offer convinced the EC to approve the merger and in 1999 it was publically announced〔 On 15 April 2000 Vopak announced that they sold their 1,5 million m³ Botlek terminal to Norwegian competitor Odfjell.〔(Nieuwsblad Transport'', Botlek-terminal Vopak sold to Odfjell, 15 April, 2000 ) (Dutch), visited: 2 September 2013〕 Odfjell had already terminals in Houston, China and South-America. The entire workforce of 260 people also moved to Odfjell.〔 Eerder dat jaar deed Vopak al zijn belang in de Antwerpse terminal Gamatex over aan de Amerikaanse partner GATX.〔 Early in 2002 the CEO Ton Spoor left with immediate effect, officially because of 'personal reasons', but it was rumoured that the break of trust between him and the company was caused by the €150 million write-off in 2001 caused by a failed attempt to introduce a pan-European IT system.〔Nieuwsblad Transport:(Bestuurvoorzitter Ton Spoor weg bij Vopak ), 29 January 2002. visited 2 September 2013〕 Spoor was succeeded by Gary Pruitt. The new combined company Vopak has a difficult start: there is only very limited synergy to be found in the storage services and the chemical distribution services and the company lacks the funds to realize her growth strategy. Because of that Vopak decides to split off and then sell the distribution services as Univar. This results in Vopak losing approx. 80% of her turnover. CEO Pruitt also moves to Univar and former van Ommeren CEO Carel van der Driest returns, now as CEO of Vopak. 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「Vopak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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