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Beluga Shipping

Dissolved 2011

Headquarters: Bremen
Founded: 1995
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Martini0814 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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

9,611

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Beluga Shipping is

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Beluga Shipping was a German heavy-lift shipping company in the Hanseatic city of Bremen. It was a world market leader in heavy-lift shipping and also highly innovative in related fields. As such, it was the first to equip ships of its fleet with SkySails that can reduce fuel consumption by up to 5%, and was the first company to send a heavy-lift ship from Europe to Asia along the Northern Sea Route through the Arctic Ocean rather than through the Suez Canal. The company was declared insolvent in March 2011, affecting 670 employees.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: shipping line
Legal form: Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Country of registration: Germany
Headquarters: Bremen
Formed in: —
Founded: 1995
Dissolved: 2011
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 53.0758, 8.8072

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 18.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 2008
Newest vessel on record: 2008
Largest vessel by tonnage: 9,611
Average tonnage: 9,611
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Beluga Shipping. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified1

By flag state

Antigua and Barbuda1

By shipbuilder

Qingshan Shipyard1

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	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record · Unclassified

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
BBC Fortune	9402067	Unclassified	Antigua and Barbuda	2008	9,611	12,692	138.9 m	Qingshan Shipyard

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 Beluga Shipping compares

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

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Beluga Shipping is the 492nd 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 Beluga Shipping ranks 61st 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 1995, Beluga Shipping is 31 years old. This directory holds 152 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 Q816230, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Beluga Shipping on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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