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Top 25 Ship design firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 3,238 ship design firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 97,735 professional contacts across them, including 16,957 with verified work emails. Italy is the largest market and Istanbul the largest hub.
This list covers ship design firms worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026. Country and city lists for ship design firms follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest ship design firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,210 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oceans, seas, lakes and rivers offer growing possibilities in the areas of trade, food, energy and recreation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,451 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “VARD is one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of specialized vessels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,004 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Installée sur la façade Atlantique, Chantiers de l’Atlantique est une entreprise de construction maritime (paquebots, sous-stations…) et de services aux flottes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,484 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “General Dynamics NASSCO traces its beginnings to the working waterfront of beautiful and historic San Diego Bay.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos o EBR – Estaleiros do Brasil Ltda.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,019 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O MAIS EXPERIENTE ESTALEIRO DO BRASIL O Mauá é o mais experiente e tradicional estaleiro em operação no Brasil com atividades desde 1845.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,007 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tersan Shipyard Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 976 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NAPA is a leading provider of software and digital services for the global maritime industry, harnessing data science to enable safer, more sustainable and future-proof shipping.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 976 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Global Ocean Solution Provider Hanwha Ocean Hanwha Ocean provides sustainable global ocean solutions, backed by over 40 years of accumulated expertise in world-class shipbuilding…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 955 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Qatar Shipyard Technology Solutions, an award-winning shipyard was inaugurated on 23 November 2010 as part of the Erhama Bin Jaber Al Jalahma Shipyard complex.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 933 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Meyer Turku Oy shipyard is specialized in the construction of very demanding, innovative, and environmentally efficient cruise ships, car ferries, and special vessels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 932 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Biggest and most modern greenfield ship yard in INDIA Engaged in Ship Building and Ship Repairs of any type of vessels Wide customer base both in India and abroad IMS accredited…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 856 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innovation and Technology MEYER WERFT GmbH based in Papenburg was founded in 1795.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 853 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bollinger Shipyards is the leading provider of quality new construction, repair and conversion products and services to both the military and commercial marine industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 848 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “On this page Distinction in Detail We established our home in Plymouth, on the edge of the English Channel, in 1965.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 814 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2007, Sefine Shipyard swiftly rose to prominence, becoming a leading force in the maritime sector in a remarkably short time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 716 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Asyad Drydock (Oman Drydock Company L.L.C )(ODC), a member of Asyad Group, based at the Port of Duqm and strategically located close to global shipping routes benefitting…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 696 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 660 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ADSB is the regional leader in the new build, repair, maintenance, refit and conversion of naval and commercial vessels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 647 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Colombo Dockyard PLC is Sri Lanka’s leading Ship Repair, Shipbuilding, Heavy Engineering and Offshore Engineering facility.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 605 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gemak Group is proud of being in service to over ship owners and managers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 546 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headquartered in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, Dixstone is an affiliate of the Perenco Group, specialized in integrated solutions for the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 520 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Besiktas Shipyard was established in 2007 in Yalova Turkey as an investment of Besiktas Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 486 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trusted U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 486 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Sunreef Yachts shipyard, established in Gdansk – Poland in 2002 by French Businessman- Francis Lapp, has the knowledge, experience and technical background necessary to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: ship design firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names ship design firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of ship design firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name ship design firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Ship design firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among ship design firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for ship design firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “ship design firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names ship design firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among ship design firms, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 16,957 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Ship design firms by location
21 lists · largest firstEvery Ship design firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Ship design firms based in Italy276
- Ship design firms based in the United States257
- Ship design firms based in the Netherlands226
- Ship design firms based in Türkiye225
- Ship design firms based in the United Kingdom156
- Ship design firms based in India132
- Ship design firms based in France121
- Ship design firms based in Germany108
- Ship design firms based in Spain80
- Ship design firms based in Norway79
- Ship design firms based in Poland79
- Ship design firms based in Greece71
- Ship design firms based in Australia70
- Ship design firms based in Indonesia62
- Ship design firms based in the United Arab Emirates58
- Ship design firms based in Brazil53
- Ship design firms based in Canada46
- Ship design firms based in Finland45
- Ship design firms based in Croatia38
- Ship design firms based in Denmark29
- Ship design firms based in Sweden27
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names ship design firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many ship design firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 3,238 ship design firms worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
DAMEN, headquartered in Vlissingen, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most ship design firms?
Italy leads with 276 companies, followed by the United States (257) and the Netherlands (226). Every ship design firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most ship design firms?
Istanbul leads with 81 headquartered companies, followed by Singapore (40) and Tuzla (36).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 16,957 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,238 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.