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DSD AS

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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
4,514
Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskap AS (DSD) is a private Norwegian transport and shipping company, established in 1855 with headquarters in Stavanger, Norway. The company operates internationally through its subsidiary companies DSD Shipping AS and DSD Cargo AS. The company is owned by the Hermansen family, through the holding company Folke Hermansen AS, after Folke Hermansen gained control of DSD in 1991. Chairman is Yuhong Jin Hermansen, while Ingvald Løyning has been CEO since 2015.
The DSD Group, where Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskap AS (DSD) is the parent company, wholly or partly owns four subsidiary companies.
DSD Shipping AS, a tanker company, which manages the technical and commercial operations of 7 crude oil and product tankers engaged in international shipping.
DSD Cargo AS, a shipping company and transport company with a versatile fleet and linear traffic between the Scandinavian countries, the Baltic States, Poland and (Germany).
Tide AS is one of Norway's and Denmark's largest bus companies. The business areas are public bus services, express- and airport bus services, as well as charter- and travel management.
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.
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskap. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
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. 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 | — | 4 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 4 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6401206 | Unclassified | Norway | 1964 | 2,604 | — | 87.4 m | Bergen Mekaniske Verksted | |
| 8112641 | Unclassified | Norway | 1982 | 1,436 | — | 74.0 m | Sterkoder | |
| 6415831 | Unclassified | Norway | 1964 | 474 | — | 61.5 m | Rosenberg 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 4 vessels attributed to it here, Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskap is the 213th 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 Stavangerske Dampskibsselskap ranks 45th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 831 vessels here. See every operator registered in Norway.
Founded in 1855, Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskap is 171 years old. This directory holds 27 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 Q1432679, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskap on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.