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freight transport

Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping AS

Headquarters: Haugesund Municipality
Founded: 1895
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

550,218

Summed over 8 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping AS is

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Knutsen OAS Shipping is a privately owned shipping company located in Haugesund, Norway. The company has a fleet of purpose-built shuttle tankers, chemical carriers and product tankers internationally. The fleet consists of 41 shuttle tankers, chemical carriers and product tankers. In 2009 the company had an onshore staff of 64 to handle projects and operation of the fleet, 430 administrative employees offshore and about 800 foreign employees.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: freight transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: Norway
Headquarters: Haugesund Municipality
Formed in: —
Founded: 1895
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 59.4102, 5.2755

Ships on record here: 8
Vessel types operated: 3
Flag states used: 4
Average vessel age: 23.3 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1993
Newest vessel on record: 2013
Largest vessel by tonnage: 90,835
Average tonnage: 68,777
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 8 vessels this registry attributes to Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping AS. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries2

La Naval (Sestao)2

Astilleros Españoles1

Bijlsma Wartena1

Harland and Wolff1

Samsung Heavy Industries1

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	—	8
2018	—	8
2019	—	8
2020	—	8
2021	—	8
2022	—	8
2023	—	8
2024	—	8
2025	—	8
2026	—	8

Vessel records

Ships on record

8 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
«Bilbao Knutsen»	9236432	LNG carrier	Norway	2004	90,835	138,000	284.4 m	La Naval (Sestao)
Sestao Knutsen	9338797	LNG carrier	Spain	2007	90,478	138,000	226.0 m	La Naval (Sestao)
Heather Knutsen	9273064	Unclassified	Canada	2005	80,918	—	277.0 m	Samsung Heavy Industries
Gerd Knutsen	9041057	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1996	79,592	—	277.0 m	Harland and Wolff
Hanne Knutsen	9190638	Tanker	Norway	2000	73,999	123,581	265.0 m	Astilleros Españoles
Vigdis Knutsen	9052989	Tanker	United Kingdom	1993	66,671	123,423	264.4 m	HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
Ingrid Knutsen	9649225	Unclassified	United Kingdom	2013	66,038	—	257.0 m	HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
Pioneer Knutsen	9275074	Unclassified	Norway	2004	1,687	—	69.0 m	Bijlsma Wartena

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 Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping AS compares

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

With 8 vessels attributed to it here, Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping AS is the 110th 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 Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping AS ranks 23rd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 831 vessels here. See every operator registered in Norway.

Founded in 1895, Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping AS is 131 years old. This directory holds 36 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 Q11981385, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping AS on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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