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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
13,025
Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (German: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung) is located in Bremerhaven, Germany, and a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. It conducts research in the Arctic, the Antarctic, and the high and mid latitude oceans. Additional research topics are: North Sea research, marine biological monitoring, and technical marine developments. The institute was founded in 1980 and is named after meteorologist, climatologist, and geologist Alfred Wegener.
AWI is the biggest institution for polar and ocean research and science in Germany. The annual budget is 140 Mio EUR (2018) and the institute has a staff of more than 1000 people.
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Parent company
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
Fleet on record
Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By vessel type
By flag state
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. 1 deliveries fall inside this window.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2023 | 1 | 411 | 2 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 2 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8013132 | Research / survey | Germany | 1982 | 12,614 | 4,374 | 102.2 m | Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft | |
| 9920710 | Research / survey | Germany | 2023 | 411 | — | 35.7 m | Fassmer |
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 2 vessels attributed to it here, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research is the 341st 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.
Germany is the country of registration for 147 commercial operators in this directory, among which Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research ranks 48th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 640 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Germany.
Founded in 1980, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research is 46 years old. This directory holds 82 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 Q536656, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.