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Top 25 Shipbuilding companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 3,332 shipbuilding companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 130,427 professional contacts across them, including 21,830 with verified work emails and 12,905 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Istanbul the largest hub.
This list covers shipbuilding companies 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 6, 2026. Country and city lists for shipbuilding companies 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 shipbuilding companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,979 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Impulsamos la autonomía estratégica de España con tecnología naval y de defensa de vanguardia, combinando innovación, digitalización y sostenibilidad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,451 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VARD is one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of specialized vessels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,370 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empresa multinacional na área de construção e reparos de navios e plataformas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,775 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2005, Atlântico Sul (EAS) is currently the premier benchmark for the construction of Suezmax and Aframax oil tankers in the Americas, as well as a major ship repair hub…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 6, 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,430 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,352 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Civmec is a multidisciplinary construction, heavy engineering, naval shipbuilding and maintenance services provider, with facilities in Western Australia, New South Wales and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,338 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Um Acordo Estratégico firmado entre Brasil e França no final do ano de 2008 originou o Programa de Desenvolvimento de Submarinos – PROSUB O PROSUB é de coordenação da Marinha do…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos o EBR – Estaleiros do Brasil Ltda.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,007 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tersan Shipyard Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 696 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 627 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Fleet Support Group has more than 2,500 employees in over 35 locations across the globe, providing maintenance, modernization, unmanned systems development, engineering…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 605 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gemak Group is proud of being in service to over ship owners and managers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 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: shipbuilding companies. 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 shipbuilding companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of shipbuilding companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name shipbuilding companies. 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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Shipbuilding companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 6, 2026Companies by employee count
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 shipbuilding companies, 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
- 25 countries, largest first: the United States, Italy, Türkiye, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, India, Spain, Germany, Indonesia and 15 more. Country and city lists for shipbuilding companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “shipbuilding companies”. 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 shipbuilding companies), 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 shipbuilding companies, 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, 21,830 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 between September 6, 2026 and September 15, 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.
Shipbuilding companies by location
26 lists · largest firstEvery Shipbuilding companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Shipbuilding companies based in the United States431
- Shipbuilding companies based in Italy429
- Shipbuilding companies based in Türkiye290
- Shipbuilding companies based in the Netherlands284
- Shipbuilding companies based in the United Kingdom197
- Shipbuilding companies based in France171
- Shipbuilding companies based in India157
- Shipbuilding companies based in Spain155
- Shipbuilding companies based in Germany135
- Shipbuilding companies based in Indonesia111
- Shipbuilding companies based in Poland108
- Shipbuilding companies based in Brazil105
- Shipbuilding companies based in the United Arab Emirates99
- Shipbuilding companies based in Australia93
- Shipbuilding companies based in Norway86
- Shipbuilding companies based in Greece71
- Shipbuilding companies based in Canada70
- Shipbuilding companies based in Sweden64
- Shipbuilding companies based in Finland58
- Shipbuilding companies based in Lithuania49
- Shipbuilding companies based in Croatia42
- Shipbuilding companies based in Portugal36
- Shipbuilding companies based in Denmark32
- Shipbuilding companies based in Romania30
- Shipbuilding companies based in New Zealand29
Cities
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 shipbuilding companies, 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 shipbuilding companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 3,332 shipbuilding companies 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?
Newport News Shipbuilding, A Division Of HII, headquartered in Newport News, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most shipbuilding companies?
The United States leads with 431 companies, followed by Italy (429) and Türkiye (290). Every shipbuilding companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most shipbuilding companies?
Istanbul leads with 100 headquartered companies, followed by Tuzla (47) and Klaipeda (41).
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 21,830 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,332 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 6, 2026 and September 15, 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.