Verstegen grabs wins 6th ‘Best Grab’ award in 10 years…

In the historic city of Ghent, at the “Night of the Year” for the Maritime Bulk Industry, Verstegen has won the prestigious IBJ Award for Best Grab. Verstegen has won the award for the sixth time at the tenth anniversary edition of the IBJ Awards.

The International Bulk Journal rewarded Verstegen with the award for Best Grab.

Peter Visser, Sales Director at Verstegen: “The winning of Verstegen is the result of years of hard work in optimizing our grab design for specific bulk materials and applications. We closely work together with our existing and new customers to optimize each grab for their specific operation”.

Verstegen grabs have a modular design, consisting of proven parts and modules, already used in hundreds of other grabs. Small improvements are made constantly, always focused on the main goal: Handling large amounts of bulk material in a fast and efficient way over a long period of time. With this concept, Verstegen is world’s leading grab manufacturer with customers in more than 110 countries worldwide.

The IBJ Awards are hosted by International Bulk Journal, the leading magazine for the worldwide Dry Bulk Handling Industry. All the winners of the awards were announced at a spectacular gala dinner on November the 19th 2018 in the historic city of Ghent. IBJ Awards salutes excellence in bulk shipping and cargo handling and there has been a high response to this year’s call for entries. There have been more entrants than ever to the IBJ Awards 2018.