'Pakhuismeesteren' is the plural of 'pakhuismeester'. A
pakhuismeester is a supervisor of a warehouse. Pakhuismeester(en) was initially
exclusively the name of an activity, a profession, which later also permeated
the company names of companies that were involved in that service and related
trade. The company ‘Pakhuismeesteren’ was founded in 1818 and started with tea
trading activities which were taken over from the Dutch East India Company
(VOC). The arrival of the first petroleum in Rotterdam in 1862 was the start
for ‘Pakhuismeesteren’ to intensively focus on the storage of petroleum and
other petroleum products.