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freight transport

J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi

Headquarters: Bergen
Founded: 1898
Employees: —

Official website

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

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Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

365,011

Summed over 11 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi is

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A/S J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi is a Bergen-based shipping company that operates eight tankers with six newbuildings. The company is privately owned and has divided ownership between one foundation and the Mowinckel family through the founder's J. Ludwig Mowinckel's wife Julie Mowinckel's will and testament - still after 30 years waiting to be settled. The foundation Magda Muller Mowincels Legat was set up in 1985 by Magda Mowinckel - the daughter of the founder - and aims to protect and serve for the company's economy and existence.

The portfolio consists of product tankers, shuttle tankers, and chemical tankers. Two newbuildings are bulk carriers. These vessels are registered in the Norwegian International Ship Register, the Norwegian Ship Register, on the Bahamas and on Malta. Chaterers include ExxonMobil, Statoil and Teekay. In 2007, the company reentered the dry bulk market by purchasing two panamax newbuilding contracts of 75,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT) from Golden Ocean Group for US$45 million. One of the company's vessels, the Strinda, was struck by a missile in Bab-el-Mandeb on 11 December 2023 as part of Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: freight transport
Legal form: aksjeselskap
Country of registration: Norway
Headquarters: Bergen
Formed in: —
Founded: 1898
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 60.3925, 5.3233

Ships on record here: 11
Vessel types operated: 4
Flag states used: 4
Average vessel age: 48.7 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1957
Newest vessel on record: 2012
Largest vessel by tonnage: 75,494
Average tonnage: 33,183
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 11 vessels this registry attributes to J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft2

Bergen Mekaniske Verksted1

Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad1

Fukuoka Shipbuilding1

Hanwha Ocean Shandong1

Smiths Dock Company1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	11
2018	—	11
2019	—	11
2020	—	11
2021	—	11
2022	—	11
2023	—	11
2024	—	11
2025	—	11
2026	—	11

Vessel records

Ships on record

11 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
IMO 6704311	6704311	Unclassified	Norway	1966	75,494	—	—	Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft
Mega	7381037	Unclassified	Norway	1976	73,141	138,351	267.2 m	—
Troma	6610118	Unclassified	Norway	1966	46,121	—	249.1 m	Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft
Astra Perseus	9611814	Bulk carrier	Marshall Islands	2012	34,837	58,000	196.0 m	Hanwha Ocean Shandong
Dove	7380746	Unclassified	The Bahamas	1974	25,920	—	182.0 m	—
Hato	7380758	Unclassified	The Bahamas	1974	25,920	—	182.0 m	—
Heron	7380760	Unclassified	The Bahamas	1975	25,919	—	182.0 m	—
Hua Jin Wo	7333951	Unclassified	Norway	1974	19,653	—	171.9 m	Bergen Mekaniske Verksted
Li Ning	7022679	Bulk carrier	Panama	1970	17,372	—	167.0 m	Smiths Dock Company
Strinda	9330771	Tanker	Norway	2006	11,729	19,959	144.0 m	Fukuoka Shipbuilding
Loa	5117377	General cargo	Norway	1957	8,905	—	145.0 m	Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad

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. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi compares

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

With 11 vessels attributed to it here, J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi is the 81st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Norway is the country of registration for 150 commercial operators in this directory, among which J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi ranks 17th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 831 vessels here. See every operator registered in Norway.

Founded in 1898, J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi is 128 years old. This directory holds 41 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.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q13638722, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.