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Top 25 Vessel operators and fleet managers based in Germany

Name: Vessel operators and fleet managers based in Germany
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026 142 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 142 vessel operators and fleet managers headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 11,966 professional contacts across them, including 1,388 with verified work emails. Hamburg is the largest hub.

This list covers vessel operators and fleet managers 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 22, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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11,966Contacts tracked

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The 25 largest vessel operators and fleet managers based in Germany

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 142 vessel operators and fleet managers based in Germany, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to vessel operators and fleet managers: 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement	Partial evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	10001+	5,732 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) is an integrated maritime solutions provider and one of the world’s top-ranking ship managers in the gas, tanker, offshore, container, bulk…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
2	Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-Kg	Indirect evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	640 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 22, 2026
3	BSM Cruise Services	Indirect evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	447 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Bernhard Schulte is a leading, independent, family-owned shipping company with a proud 135 year history in the shipping industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
4	NSB Group	Partial evidence	Buxtehude, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	394 contacts →
	Partial 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 22, 2026
5	Nordic Hamburg Shipmanagement	Indirect evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	374 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded 2006 in Hamburg, Nordic Hamburg is your dynamic partner in the maritime industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6	Zeaborn Ship Management	Partial evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	336 contacts →
	Partial 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 22, 2026
7	Briese Schiffahrts Gmbh & Co. KG	Indirect evidence	Leer (ostfriesland), GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	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, 2026
8	United Offshore Support Gmbh	Indirect evidence	Leer, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	264 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “UOS is a Leer based service provider to the offshore industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9	Hartmann Group	Indirect evidence	Leer, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	5,001-10,000	262 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Hartmann Group is an independent, family-owned shipping company, operating worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
10	BSM Offshore Services	Indirect evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	10001+	225 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Dedicated people to support your offshore business with the power of Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
11	Columbia Cruise Services	Partial evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	216 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Your partner in the maritime leisure industry COLUMBIA Cruise Services is an internationally recognized ship manager with more than 35 years of experience in world-class cruise…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12	Wilhelmsen Ahrenkiel Ship Management	Partial evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	172 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Wilhelmsen Ahrenkiel Ship Management is a technical ship manager based in Hamburg, Germany, in Rhoon, the Netherlands, and in Singapore.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
13	TB Marine Shipmanagement Gmbh & Co. KG TB Marine Cont Shipmanagement Gmbh & Co. KG	Strong evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	170 contacts →
	Strong 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, 2026
14	John T. Essberger Gmbh & CO KG	Indirect evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	141 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The history of the privately owned Deutsche Afrika-Linien/John T.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15	Chemikalien Seetransport Gmbh	Partial evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	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, 2026
16	Pronav Ship Management	Partial evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	125 contacts →
	Partial 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, 2026
17	FRS	Indirect evidence	Flensburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	124 contacts →
	Indirect 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 22, 2026
18	Hammonia Reederei Gmbh & Co. KG	Partial evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	98 contacts →
	Partial evidence “HAMMONIA Reederei is a ship management company and a competent project developer in international shipping.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
19	Bernhard Schulte	Indirect evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	91 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Bernhard Schulte is the ship owning business of the international, family-owned Schulte Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
20	Marlow Ship Management	Partial evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	73 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Marlow Ship Management Deutschland (MSD) is the German technical management arm of the Marlow Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
21	Marlow Offshore	Indirect evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	70 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Marlow provides one-stop solutions for the international offshore industry, backed by a worldwide network of offices, agencies & training centres.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
22	Leonhardt & Blumberg	Strong evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	55 contacts →
	Strong 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, 2026
23	Sunship Schiffahrtskontor KG Reederei M. Lauterjung	Indirect evidence	Emden Stadt-stadtzentrum, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	50 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Sunship Schiffahrtskontor KG was founded in 1979 by Manfred Lauterjung.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
24	Frachtcontor Junge & Co. Gmbh	Indirect evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	47 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in Hamburg in 1905, Frachtcontor Junge & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
25	Minship Shipmanagement Gmbh & Co. KG	Indirect evidence	Schnaittenbach, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	45 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “MINSHIP Shipmanagement GmbH & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026

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: vessel operators and fleet managers. 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 vessel operators and fleet managers.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of vessel operators and fleet managers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name vessel operators and fleet managers. 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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Vessel operators and fleet managers based in Germany at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026

11.6%Verified-email coverage

84.3Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

47.2%Largest-city concentration · Hamburg

Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

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 142 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 vessel operators and fleet managers, 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 “vessel operators and fleet managers”. 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 vessel operators and fleet managers), 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 vessel operators and fleet managers, 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, 1,388 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.

Vessel operators and fleet managers by metro

Vessel operators and fleet managers in Hamburg67

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 vessel operators and fleet managers, 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 vessel operators and fleet managers are there based in Germany?

RevenueBase identified 142 vessel operators and fleet managers 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?

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, headquartered in Hamburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most vessel operators and fleet managers?

Hamburg leads with 67 headquartered companies, followed by Bremen (9) and Leer Ostfriesland (5).

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 1,388 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 142 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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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.