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Top 25 Shipbuilders worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,370 shipbuilders worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 134,971 professional contacts across them, including 17,346 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Istanbul the largest hub.
This list covers shipbuilders 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 shipbuilders 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 shipbuilders worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8,318 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “General Dynamics Electric Boat is a business unit of General Dynamics with headquarters in Groton, CT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 7,430 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For 137 years, the ships built at Newport News Shipbuilding, like the American shipbuilders who built them, have served our nation in peace and war, in times of adversity and in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 3,741 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), founded by the late Chung Ju-yung on March 23, 1972 wrote the first chapter of its shipbuilding history in June, 1974 by completing construction…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,451 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 1,999 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cochin Shipyard was incorporated in the year 1972 as a fully owned Government of India company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,696 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bath Built Is Best Built" Part of General Dynamics Marine Systems, Bath Iron Works is a full service shipyard specializing in the design, building and support of complex surface…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,538 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “تُعد الشركة العالمية للصناعات البحرية أكبر حوض بحري متكامل يقدم جميع الخدمات في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا، وهي مشروع مشترك بين أرامكو السعودية، والبحري، ولامبريل، وهيونداي…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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. | |||||
| 11 | 1,430 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Austal is an Australian shipbuilder and global defence prime contractor which designs, constructs and sustains some of the world’s most advanced commercial and defence vessels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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. | |||||
| 13 | 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. | |||||
| 14 | 1,007 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tersan Shipyard Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 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. | |||||
| 17 | 933 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 18 | 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. | |||||
| 19 | 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. | |||||
| 20 | 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. | |||||
| 21 | 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. | |||||
| 22 | 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. | |||||
| 23 | 716 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PaxOcean owns and operates 5 shipyards located in Singapore, China and Indonesia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 696 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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. | |||||
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: shipbuilders. 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 shipbuilders.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of shipbuilders, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name shipbuilders. 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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Shipbuilders 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 shipbuilders, 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 shipbuilders are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “shipbuilders”. 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 shipbuilders), 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 shipbuilders, 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, 17,346 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.
Shipbuilders by location
16 lists · largest firstEvery Shipbuilders list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Shipbuilders based in the United States218
- Shipbuilders based in Italy207
- Shipbuilders based in the Netherlands163
- Shipbuilders based in Türkiye146
- Shipbuilders based in France91
- Shipbuilders based in the United Kingdom88
- Shipbuilders based in India80
- Shipbuilders based in Germany78
- Shipbuilders based in Indonesia76
- Shipbuilders based in Spain66
- Shipbuilders based in Poland64
- Shipbuilders based in Australia55
- Shipbuilders based in Norway45
- Shipbuilders based in the United Arab Emirates45
- Shipbuilders based in Brazil44
- Shipbuilders based in Canada38
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 shipbuilders, 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 shipbuilders are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,370 shipbuilders 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?
General Dynamics Electric Boat, headquartered in Groton, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most shipbuilders?
The United States leads with 218 companies, followed by Italy (207) and the Netherlands (163). Every shipbuilders list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most shipbuilders?
Istanbul leads with 48 headquartered companies, followed by Mumbai (22) and Tuzla (20).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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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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About this data
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.