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Ford Motor Company

Headquarters: Dearborn
Founded: 1903
Employees: 186,000

Official website

Photo: Dave Parker · CC BY 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

8,877

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Ford Motor Company is

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The Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford, sometimes abbreviated as FoMoCo) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand, and luxury cars under its Lincoln brand. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the single-letter ticker symbol F and is controlled by the Ford family. They have minority ownership but a plurality of the voting power.

Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines. By 1914, these methods were known around the world as Fordism. Ford's former British subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover, acquired in 1989 and 2000, respectively, were sold to the Indian automaker Tata Motors in March 2008. Ford owned the Swedish automaker Volvo from 1999 to 2010. In the third quarter of 2010, Ford discontinued the Mercury brand, under which it had marketed middle priced cars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East since 1938.

Quoted from Ford Motor Company on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin

Who founded it

Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903 in Dearborn by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Henry Ford

1863–1947

American business magnate (1863–1947)

Photo: Fred Hartsook · Public domain · file

People

Leadership on record

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.

Chief executive

Jim Farley

1962

American business executive, president and chief executive officer, Ford Motor Company

Board

Board member

Kimberly Casiano

1957

American businessperson, former president and chief operating officer of Casiano Communications

Board member

John B. Veihmeyer

1955

American businessperson, former global chairperson of KPMG

Board member

Beth E. Mooney

1955

American banking executive

Board member

Jim Farley

1962

American business executive, president and chief executive officer, Ford Motor Company

Board member

Henry Ford III

Peerage person ID=334062

Board member

Anthony Earley

1949

American businessperson, former Chairman and CEO of PG&E Corp.

Board member

Alexandra Ford English

American businessperson, director, global brand merchandising, Ford Motor Company

Board member

Bill Helman

American businessperson, Partner, Greylock Partners and member, board of directors, Ford Motor Company

Board member

Lynn Vojvodich

American businessperson, former CMO of Salesforce

Board member

John Weinberg

American businessperson, former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Board member

John May

American businessperson and board member

Board member

Jon Meade Huntsman Jr.

1960

American politician, businessman and diplomat (born 1960)

Photo: United States Department of State · Public domain · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: Ford Motor Company
Industry: automotive industry
Legal form: Delaware corporation
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Dearborn
Formed in: Dearborn
Founded: 1903
Dissolved: —
Employees: 186,000
Listed on: New York Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: US3453708600
Legal Entity Identifier: 20S05OYHG0MQM4VUIC57
Head office coordinates: 42.3113, -83.2135

Ships on record here: 2
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 87.5 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1924
Newest vessel on record: 1953
Largest vessel by tonnage: 8,877
Average tonnage: 8,877
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Reported financials

Financial year 2023

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

176bn USD

Reported for 2023

Operating income

5.5bn USD

Reported for 2023

Net profit

4.3bn USD

Reported for 2023

Corporate structure

Ownership and holdings

Services and products

truckpassenger car

Subsidiaries and units (16)

Ford GermanyFord Motor Company of JapanFord ArgentinaFord of EuropeFord New ZealandFord of SpainFord Global TechnologiesFord Motor IbéricaFord of MexicoFord IrelandFord of South AfricaFord Motor Company of CanadaFord AustraliaFord do BrasilFord Air Transport ServiceFord Motor Company Philippines

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Ford Motor Company. 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

American Ship Building Company1

Great Lakes Engineering Works1

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
Henry Ford II	5148015	General cargo	United States	1924	8,877	—	597.0 m	American Ship Building Company
SS William Clay Ford	5390412	Unclassified	United States	1953	—	20,300	197.2 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 Ford Motor Company 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, Ford Motor Company 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 Ford Motor Company 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 1903, Ford Motor Company is 123 years old. This directory holds 47 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.