Archirodon

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 type	Private
Industry	Construction, Marine services,Oil & Gas
Founded	1959
Headquarters	Dordrecht, Netherlands & Athens, Greece
Area served	Europe, Middle East, Africa, CIS, United States
Key people	Hazem Sadek (CEO)
Revenue	€1 billion (2021)
Number of employees	16,000 (2022)
Website	http://www.archirodon.net

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

History

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

• Jorf Lasfar
• Al Hamriya Port
• Port of Jebel Ali -Terminal-2
• Port of Tripoli
• Khalifa Port
• Sheikh Zayed Bridge
• Port of Salalah
• Palm Islands
• King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries and Service
• Shura island bridge in The Red Sea Project

Offices

Archirodon maintains offices in:^[1]

• Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

  

  Arco Dubai office

• Cairo, Egypt

  

  Arco Cairo office

• Jeddah and KSA, Saudi Arabia

  

  Arco Saudi office

• Dordrecht, Netherlands
• Aktau, Kazakhstan
• Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
• Athens, Greece
• Limassol, Cyprus
• Arlington, Virginia, United States
• Casablanca, Morocco
• Muscat, Oman
• Geneva, Switzerland

Subsidiaries

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

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]