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Top 25 Shipping and maritime companies based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 1,012 shipping and maritime companies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 182,378 professional contacts across them, including 47,062 with verified work emails. Hamburg is the largest hub.
This list covers shipping and maritime 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.
The 25 largest shipping and maritime companies based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 51,193 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DHL is the leading global brand in the logistics industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 36,350 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At DB Schenker, we're not just about logistics; we're about understanding what truly matters to you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 19,483 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Freight Forwarding experts since 1815.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 11,843 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DACHSER is one of the global leaders in the field of system logistics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 11,393 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Rhenus Group is one of the leading logistics specialists with global business operations and annual turnover amounting to EUR 8.2 billion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,676 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,412 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The international logistics company HOYER is one of the worldwide market leaders in moving liquids by road, rail and sea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,072 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BLG LOGISTICS stands for international networks in the business areas of automobile, contract and container logistics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 640 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 570 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “a.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 394 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The origin of NSB GROUP is the German REEDEREI NSB, which was founded in 1982 and currently manages about 40 ships at its Buxtehude site.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 336 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zeaborn Ship Management is a globally acting dedicated ship manager offering a comprehensive and state-of-the-art ship management product portfolio with particular focus on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 265 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 262 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Hartmann Group is an independent, family-owned shipping company, operating worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die ZUFALL logistics group ist ein familiengeführter Logistikdienstleister mit über Mitarbeiter:innen und Auszubildenden.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Port of Duisburg (duisport) operates the world’s largest inland port – connecting global logistics with the heart of Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SKF Marine is a global family with more than 70 years’ experience in the maritime industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We do ship management hand in hand, on board and ashore" The company manages a fleet both of its own tonnage and on behalf of third parties.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SAL Heavy Lift is part of the JSI Alliance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GROUP7 is your ideal partner for worldwide, comprehensive, end-to-end supply chain management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The history of the privately owned Deutsche Afrika-Linien/John T.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Decades of experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since more than 50 years Chemikalien Seetransport has been providing technical and commercial ship management as well as crew management for crude oil tankers, product tankers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 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: shipping and maritime 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 shipping and maritime companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of shipping and maritime companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name shipping and maritime 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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Shipping and maritime companies based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
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 1,012 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 shipping and maritime 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 “shipping and maritime 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 shipping and maritime 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 shipping and maritime 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, 47,062 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
- 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.
Shipping and maritime companies by metro
- Shipping and maritime companies in Hamburg272
- Shipping and maritime companies in Bremen76
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 shipping and maritime 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 shipping and maritime companies are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 1,012 shipping and maritime 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?
DHL, headquartered in Bonn, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most shipping and maritime companies?
Hamburg leads with 272 headquartered companies, followed by Bremen (76) and Duisburg (16).
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 47,062 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,012 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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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.
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