Meet Eurodam’s Project Manager

Henry Veringa, Newbuild Project Manager

Eurodam News Blog readers know him as the shipyard photographer, but Henry Veringa has much more responsibility than ensuring we have the latest photos. As the newbuild project manager for Holland America Line, Veringa has been based at the Fincantieri shipyard since June 2006. In his role, he provides local support for the newbuild projects and is the liaison between the newbuild team (deck, engine and hotel operations) and the shipyard.

Additionally, he checks the ship’s drawings and reports back to the various Holland America Line departments in Seattle and to Carnival Corporate Shipbuilding (CCS) in Southampton, England. Together with the newbuild team, he guides the comments on the construction to ensure that the new ship meets HAL standards. Veringa reports directly to Pieter Rijkaart, Blog Board member and Holland America Line director of newbuilds.

Hailing from the town of Swifterbant in Oostelijk Flevoland, the Netherlands, Veringa graduated from maritime college. He fulfilled his apprenticeship with P&O North Sea Ferries until he received his engineer’s license in 1995. Although he then went to work for a power plant in Amsterdam, he longed to return to sea. The encouraging words of current ms Statendam Captain Henrik Krombeen, whom he met while sailing with P&O, led him to apply for a job with Holland America Line, and in 2000 he joined ms Rotterdam in the engineering department. Veringa was then assigned to the construction of ms Oosterdam in 2002, as well as the newbuilds ms Westerdam and ms Noordam.

After Noordam launched, Rijkaart approached Veringa and asked him if he was interested in the position of newbuild project manager, which he gladly accepted.

To be close to the yard, Veringa lives in Mestre, near Venice. When he’s not taking photos for ENB, he enjoys the sun and snow, and can be found at the beach, skiing in the Italian Dolomites or at his brother’s in St. Moritz, Switzerland.