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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
178,570
Summed over 6 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Westfal-Larsen is a group of shipping companies based in Bergen, Norway, owning 20 open hatch ships and 12 chemical tankers.
The group's main activities also include investment as well as ship technical and commercial management. Among the subsidiaries are Masterbulk which owns and manages the fleet of open-hatch ships, and its wholly owned subsidiary Westfal-Larsen Shipping AS commercial management. The main company in the group is Skibsaktieselskapet Navigation Co Ltd while most of the shipping activities is performed by Westfal-Larsen & Co. AS. The group was founded by Hans Westfal-Larsen in 1905.
In 1939, Cosmopolitan Shipping Company lost the Southern Cross Line to Westfal-Larsen & Company. Westfal-Larsen & Company also operated the Interocean Line and County Line. The lines were closed in the 1960s.
During World War II Westfal-Larsen operated a fleet of 36 ships, 22 ships were lost during the war.
People
Officers and directors as recorded in open reference data. This reflects the most recent statement in the source, not a filing date — check the company's own disclosures before relying on it.
Chief executive
Rolf Westfal-Larsen
1943
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 6 vessels this registry attributes to Westfal-Larsen. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By vessel type
By shipbuilder
Delivery history
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 | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 6 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9401790 | Unclassified | Singapore | 2009 | 39,258 | — | 213.0 m | Oshima Shipbuilding | |
| 9387695 | Unclassified | Norway | 2009 | 29,644 | — | 183.0 m | HD Hyundai Mipo | |
| 9387700 | Unclassified | Norway | 2009 | 29,644 | — | 183.0 m | HD Hyundai Mipo | |
| 9387724 | Unclassified | Norway | 2010 | 29,644 | — | 183.0 m | HD Hyundai Mipo | |
| 7620615 | Unclassified | Norway | 1978 | 27,743 | — | 182.9 m | — | |
| 8619417 | Unclassified | Norway | 1988 | 22,637 | — | 170.7 m | — |
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
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 6 vessels attributed to it here, Westfal-Larsen is the 148th 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 Westfal-Larsen ranks 30th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 831 vessels here. See every operator registered in Norway.
Founded in 1918, Westfal-Larsen is 108 years old. This directory holds 58 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.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q7988604, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Westfal-Larsen on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.