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iron and steel industry

Cleveland-Cliffs

Headquarters: Cleveland
Founded: 1846
Employees: 30,000

Official website

Photo: Cards84664 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

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

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Summed over 0 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Cleveland-Cliffs is

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Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (CCI, formerly Cliffs Natural Resources) is an American steel manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio. It specializes in the mining, beneficiation, and pelletizing of iron ore, as well as steelmaking, including stamping and tooling. The company is ranked 23rd on the list of steel producers and is the second-largest steel producer in the United States after Nucor. It is the largest flat-rolled steel producer in North America. The company is ranked 221st on the Fortune 500 and 1511th on the Forbes Global 2000.

Origin

Who founded it

Cleveland-Cliffs was founded in 1846 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Samuel Mather

1851–1931

American businessman and philanthropist 1851-1931

Photo: "'Samuel Mather." Iron Trade Review. June 9, 1908, p. 72. · Public domain · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: iron and steel industry
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Cleveland
Formed in: —
Founded: 1846
Dissolved: —
Employees: 30,000
Listed on: New York Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: US18683K1016
Legal Entity Identifier
Head office coordinates: 41.4992, -81.6947

Ships on record here: 2
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 98.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1911
Newest vessel on record: 1945
Largest vessel by tonnage: —
Average tonnage: —
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Reported financials

Financial year 2022

All figures in USD

Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.

Revenue

23.0bn USD

Reported for 2022

Operating income

1.9bn USD

Reported for 2022

Net profit

1.3bn USD

Reported for 2022

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Cleveland-Cliffs. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

General cargo1

Unclassified1

By flag state

United States2

By shipbuilder

Great Lakes Engineering Works1

Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation1

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	—	2
2018	—	2
2019	—	2
2020	—	2
2021	—	2
2022	—	2
2023	—	2
2024	—	2
2025	—	2
2026	—	2

Vessel records

Ships on record

2 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Cliffs Victory	5076066	Unclassified	United States	1945	—	—	700.0 m	Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation
Willis B Boyer	5077228	General cargo	United States	1911	—	—	179.8 m	Great Lakes Engineering Works

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 Cleveland-Cliffs compares

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, Cleveland-Cliffs 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.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Cleveland-Cliffs ranks 33rd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1846, Cleveland-Cliffs is 180 years old. This directory holds 23 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 2 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.