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Top 25 Ship companies based in the United Arab Emirates
RevenueBase identified 123 ship companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026 and tracks 4,406 professional contacts across them, including 325 with verified work emails. Dubai is the largest hub.
This list covers ship companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, 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 19, 2026.
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The 25 largest ship companies based in the United Arab Emirates
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,210 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) is a global shipping company based in the Middle East.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 306 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tomini is a ship owning business with diversified interests in classic cars and plant machinery.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Emarat Maritime operates a modern fleet of ships, recognized worldwide as the “Dubai Series”.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The firm of RAIS HASSAN SAADI was founded in 1910 and ranks among the leading commercial enterprises in Dubai.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MUR offers shipping services covering numerous regular trade routes, with over 900 voyages per annum translating to more than 45 million tonnes of cargo shipped every year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formed as a joint venture shipping company, Gulf Energy Maritime manages modern, state-of-the-art double-hull tankers designed to carry petroleum products, chemicals, and other…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a global shipping group, providing ocean transportation services to grain houses, energy majors, commodity traders, mining companies, steel mills, utility providers and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With its shareholding roots back in 1992, GFS Ship Management has been a leading Ship Manager and Owner Representative in the Gulf.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VORTEX OFFSHORE strives to provide their clients with Maritime Services meeting the highest industry standards, prioritizing safety and aiming at total Client Satisfaction.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yacht International Co LLC, established in 2006, is an integrated maritime solutions leader, with a strong heritage spanning more than 25 years in the shipping industry, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MAG Container Lines (L.L.C)’’ is a member of “MAG Group”, a leading business group established 36 years ago in the United Arab Emirates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LINDEN SHIPPING INTERNATIONAL (L.S.I.) is a Marine Chartering and Towage Company originally based in Dubai, U.A.E, founded in July 1994.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “WaterFront Maritime Services is a global ship agency delivering local, regional, and global solutions to Traders, Charterers, Owners, Operators, and Ship Managers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Saifee Ship Spare parts and shipchandlers is a maritime company based out of United Arab Emirates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TMC is a well established multi-modal freight operating, chartering, ship management company having excellent records.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SHIP AGENCY We provide a full range of agency services, including but not limited to, full ship agency, logistics, inland transportation, customs clearance and supply services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lila Global is a leading logistics and freight services provider in the dry bulk, tanker and container shipping industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Seaspeed Marine Management is a ship chartering and vessel management company based out of Sharjah, UAE, operating since 2007.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Middle East Fuji Khimji Shipping ensures the availability of experienced and efficient teams at its offices, operating 24/7 to carry out all requested operations by shipowners…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hikaru Shipping Line was established in 2012, commercially Head Quartered in Dubai- a truly global and regional Hub.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SPMS LLC is a fully fledged Shipping company that covers all the important sectors of the Shipping Industry viz.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Standard Bulk Shipbrokers delivers the highest level of quality work to shipowners, charterers and industrial clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bigwaves International provides the entire range of Maritime and Offshore services pertaining to Agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are LEEWAY Brokers, a global shipbroking company facilitating the large-scale ocean transportation of industrial raw materials and food products worldwide, while also providing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 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 ship companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of ship companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name ship 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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Ship companies based in the United Arab Emirates at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Arab Emirates, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Arab Emirates, over 123 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 ship 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 the United Arab Emirates whose own description of what they do matches “ship 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 ship 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 ship companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Arab Emirates 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, 325 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 19, 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 companies by metro
- Ship companies in Dubai69
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 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 ship companies are there based in the United Arab Emirates?
RevenueBase identified 123 ship companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates 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?
United Arab Shipping Company LTD, headquartered in Deira, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most ship companies?
Dubai leads with 69 headquartered companies, followed by Sharjah (6) and Deira (4).
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 325 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 123 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 19, 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.