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Reported fleet size
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Container capacity
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Gross tonnage on record
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Summed over 0 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab, known as NFDS or Nordenfjeldske for short, was a shipping company in Trondheim, Norway.
The company was established in 1857 as the first shipping company in Trondhjem, as the city was then called. The purpose was to conduct passenger and freight traffic with mail and goods to Hamburg. The company cooperated with Bergenske Dampskibsselskab (BDS), first with traffic as far north as Hammerfest, then with the "England Route", Trondhjem–Bergen–Newcastle.
From 1894 the company was a partner in Hurtigruta. From 1913 to 1924 the company was a partner of Den Norske Syd-Amerika Linje.
In 1925, Nordenfjeldske entered the cruise ship traffic with SS Prins Olav. After a hiatus in cruise traffic from 1936, Nordenfjeldske re-entered the business in 1970 as a partner in Royal Viking Line. It exited the cruise business in 1984.
During the post-war period Nordenfjeldske invested in tank, bulk, chemical shipping and offshore. The company again cooperated closely with BDS, establishing Nor-Cargo together in 1979.
Nordenfjeldske was bought by Norcem in 1984 and the shipping division renamed Nordenfjeldske Shipping, which was bought by Kosmos in 1985 while Norcem retained Nordenfjeldske Offshore. Nordenfjeldske's last Hurtigruta ships were sold to Troms Fylkes Dampskibsselskab i 1989, but Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab invested in another ship in 1991.
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
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 | — | 1 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 1 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5606285 | Naval / patrol | Norway | 1925 | — | — | 71.9 m | Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted |
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 1 vessels attributed to it here, Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab 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.
Norway is the country of registration for 150 commercial operators in this directory, among which Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab ranks 79th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 831 vessels here. See every operator registered in Norway.
Founded in 1857, Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab is 169 years old. This directory holds 30 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 Q1201054, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
