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Top 25 North sea shipping companies based in Germany

RevenueBase identified 216 north sea shipping companies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 17,990 professional contacts across them, including 1,367 with verified work emails. Hamburg is the largest hub.

This list covers north sea shipping companies headquartered in Germany, 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 17, 2026.

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.

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216Companies
17,990Contacts tracked
1,367Verified emails
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The 25 largest north sea shipping companies based in Germany

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 216 north sea shipping companies based in Germany, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to north sea shipping companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 202610001+11,284 contacts →

Partial evidence

“With a fleet of 302 modern container ships and a total transport capacity of 2.5 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
2Partial evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,0001,676 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Hamburg Süd is successful in the international logistics service sector and is one of the world’s ten leading container liner shipping brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
3Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,000640 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Döhle Group is a family-owned group of companies and has been a trusted partner in the maritime industry since 1956.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
4Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 2026501-1,000551 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Having been in business for more than 160 years, the Bertling Group has established a high-value reputation in the ship-owning, chartering, transport logistics and IT industries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
5Indirect evidenceBremen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,000366 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“For over 30 years Harren Group has united the best thinkers and doers from ship to shore, to solve your toughest seafaring and freight forwarding challenges.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
6Indirect evidenceLeer (ostfriesland), GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,000265 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Mit rund 550 Landmitarbeitern in 30 Ländern und mehr als Mitarbeitern auf See zählt die Briese Gruppe mit über 100 eigenen Schiffen zu den weltweit führenden im Bereich…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
7Partial evidenceLeer, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 20265,001-10,000262 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Hartmann Group is an independent, family-owned shipping company, operating worldwide.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
8Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 2026501-1,000167 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“SAL Heavy Lift is part of the JSI Alliance.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
9Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-200139 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
10Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,000135 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Decades of experience.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
11Partial evidenceFlensburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,000124 contacts →

Partial evidence

“FRS is looking back on a history of over 150 years of experience and has developed from a regional passenger shipping company to an internationally active group.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
12Partial evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-200118 contacts →

Partial evidence

“MACS Maritime Carrier Shipping has been a trusted name for over 35 years by customers in Southern Africa, Europe, the UK and USA/Mexico.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
13Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,00091 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Bernhard Schulte is the ship owning business of the international, family-owned Schulte Group.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
14Partial evidenceBremen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 2026501-1,00080 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Innovation At Sea - Rooted In Tradition.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
15Partial evidenceKiel, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-50057 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Sartori & Berger offers a complete range of integrated services for the shipping and transport industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
16Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,00055 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Leonhardt & Blumberg navigates with its experienced and well-attuned team a fleet of container feeder vessels and medium-range product tankers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
17Partial evidenceEmden, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20050 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Ems Maritime Offshore GmbH (EMO) is a fully-owned subsidiary of the shipping company Aktien-Gesellschaft "EMS", and was established in 2010 to expand the offshore activities of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
18Partial evidenceBremen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20042 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The PWL Group - 360° maritime logistics The PWL group is your independent partner in shipping and transport sector with excellent worldwide connections.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
19Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-50041 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Buss was founded in 1920 as Gerd Buss Stevedoring in the Port of Hamburg.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
20Partial evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20041 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Menzell & Döhle Group is a leading, independent provider of services in shipping, transport and logistics.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
21Partial evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5041 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Bernhard Schulte is a multinational family owned shipping company with its headquarters based in Hamburg, Germany and 30 offices all over the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
22Indirect evidenceBremen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5038 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“dteq provides tailor-made transport and marine engineering solutions, as well as port captain, surveying and supervision services, and project consulting.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
23Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5037 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“dship Carriers provides cost-effective tramp services for heavy lift and project cargo.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
24Partial evidenceBremen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-50036 contacts →

Partial evidence

“A traditional shipping company with a diversified fleet of chemical and product tankers, LPG gas tankers and multipurpose vessels.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
25Partial evidenceLubeck, GermanyHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5036 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Lubeca Marine Germany is a privately owned shipping company that started operating in Hong Kong back in 1988.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026

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North sea shipping companies based in Germany at a glance

As of Sep 17, 2026
7.6%Verified-email coverage
83.3Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
35.2%Largest-city concentration · Hamburg
Sep 17, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
89
11-50
63
51-200
30
201-500
14
501-1,000
6
1,001-5,000
8
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 216 companies.

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 north sea shipping 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.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “north sea shipping 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 north sea shipping 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 north sea shipping companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
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, 1,367 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 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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North sea shipping companies by metro

  • North sea shipping companies in Hamburg76

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 north sea shipping 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 north sea shipping companies are there based in Germany?

RevenueBase identified 216 north sea shipping companies headquartered in Germany 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?

Hapag-Lloyd AG, headquartered in Hamburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most north sea shipping companies?

Hamburg leads with 76 headquartered companies, followed by Bremen (24) and Emden (6).

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 1,367 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 216 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 17, 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.