History
Some history
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2003: Frank De Pauw founded DPS
With a team of 8 people DPS started with the following activities: Non Marine, Marine and Fruit (domestic and international).
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2009: Extra activities
We expanded our activities with our Recovery and Claims Handling Department
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2013: DPS obtaines the IUMI IPP Membership (IUMI Professional Partner)
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2017: Start of DPS Africa
Due to the increase of the market we opened our office in Africa (Senegal). Later that year, we expanded in Africa by opening our second office in Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
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2018: A new Managing Director
Frank De Pauw is going into a well-earned retirement and passes the torch on to Timothy Buysse
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Nov 2019 : First steps in founding DPS ASIA
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Dec 2019 : Milestone
We celebrate our 150.000th survey mission received since the start of DPS in 2003
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2020 : Start of DPS Asia
Official opening of our own branch offices in Tianjin and Shanghai
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2020 : We continue to expand
Official opening of our first office in the Americas, in Houston
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2021 : Not one but two
Opening of two brand new offices. One in France (Paris) and another one in Spain (Bilbao)
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2022 : Spain is growing
Opening of a second office in Spain, but now in Valencia
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Today
We are an international player in 156 countries