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Top 25 Tanker operators based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 111 tanker operators headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 3,769 professional contacts across them, including 818 with verified work emails. Hamburg is the largest hub.
This list covers tanker operators 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 22, 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 tanker operators based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 262 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Hartmann Group is an independent, family-owned shipping company, operating worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Decades of experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in Hamburg in 1995, Pronav Ship Management is a highly specialized third-party Ship & Crew Manager operating large LNG Carriers for Ship Owners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innovation At Sea - Rooted In Tradition.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marlow Ship Management Deutschland (MSD) is the German technical management arm of the Marlow Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HAMMONIA Reederei GmbH & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A full-service tanker owner and manager with excellent customer relations and the highest levels of safety in all areas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HES Wilhelmshaven is Germany’s largest independent liquid bulk terminal, located at Germany’s single deepest draft port.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “cotac stands for "complete tank care", and we take this seriously.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 36 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Die TanQuid GmbH & Co.KG mit Sitz in Duisburg ist der größte unabhängige Betreiber von Tanklagern in Deutschland mit rund 300 Mitarbeitern.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wir transportieren verschiedenartige Transportgüter auf aktuell 38 modernen Tank, Fracht- und Containerschiffen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Die Köppen GmbH ist der regional führende Tankcontainer-Dienstleister in Nordrhein-Westfalen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1930, the logistics company Kube & Kubenz is now in its third generation of family management and operates throughout Europe from its locations in Hamburg…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rent tank containers from TWS for liquid products in the chemical and food industries TWS provides tank containers that fulfil every customer need and every product requirement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We have come to regard ourselves as specialists for hazardous goods!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your Partner in Transport & Logistics Industry experience, modern equipment, and skilled employees form the basis of our dynamic growth over the past 20 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a technical ship management company located in Hamburg, Germany, owned by Wilhelmsen Ship Management and MPC Capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MLB is your reliable, dedicated & truly diversified & flexible partner in the global shipping community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BITUNAMEL FELDMANN GmbH is an internationally operating company providing maritime services, headquartered in Heiligenhafen, Germany.” 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: tanker operators. 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 tanker operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of tanker operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name tanker operators. 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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Tanker operators based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 111 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 tanker operators, 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 “tanker operators”. 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 tanker operators), 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 tanker operators, 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, 818 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.
Tanker operators by metro
- Tanker operators in Hamburg35
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 tanker operators, 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 tanker operators are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 111 tanker operators 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?
Hoyer Group, headquartered in Hamburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most tanker operators?
Hamburg leads with 35 headquartered companies, followed by Bremen (6) and Duisburg (3).
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 818 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 111 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 22, 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.