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freight transport

J. Lauritzen

J. Lauritzen A/S

Headquarters: Copenhagen
Founded: 1884
Employees: 150

Official website

Photo: J. Lauritzen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

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Container capacity

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Gross tonnage on record

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In brief

What J. Lauritzen is

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J. Lauritzen (JL) is a Danish shipping company with worldwide operations headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark. JL is a private company wholly owned by the Lauritzen Foundation, a Danish commercial foundation that is also the main shareholder (around 40%) of DFDS, one of Europe's largest ferry shipping and logistics company.

Quoted from J. Lauritzen A/S on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin

Who founded it

J. Lauritzen was founded in 1884 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Ditlev Lauritzen

1859–1935

Danish businessperson

Photo: Frederik Vermehren (1823-1910) · Public domain · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: J. Lauritzen A/S
Industry: freight transport
Legal form: aktieselskab
Country of registration: Denmark
Headquarters: Copenhagen
Formed in: —
Founded: 1884
Dissolved: —
Employees: 150
Listed on: —
Ticker: —
ISIN
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300RIPHN847476O42
Head office coordinates: 55.6761, 12.5689

Ships on record here: 0
Vessel types operated: —
Flag states used: —
Average vessel age: —
Oldest vessel on record: —
Newest vessel on record: —
Largest vessel by tonnage: —
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Market share: —
Parent company: Lauritzen Foundation
Alliance: —

Reported financials

Financial year 2024

All figures in SEK

Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.

Revenue

4.4bn SEK

Reported for 2024

Vessel records

Ships on record

0 vessels

No individual ships attributed to this company yet

The company is on record, but no vessel in the registry currently names it as operator or owner. Nothing is invented to fill this space.

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Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How J. Lauritzen compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

Denmark is the country of registration for 52 commercial operators in this directory, among which J. Lauritzen ranks 27th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 122 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Denmark.

Founded in 1884, J. Lauritzen is 142 years old. This directory holds 47 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.