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GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Headquarters: Germany
Founded: 2012
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Inselfreund · CC BY 4.0 · 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

185

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is

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The GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), formerly known as the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (German: Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, IFM-GEOMAR), is a research institute in Kiel, Germany. It was formed in 2004 by merging the Institute for Marine Science (Institut für Meereskunde Kiel, (IFM)) with the Research Center for Marine Geosciences (GEOMAR) and is co-funded by both federal and provincial governments. It was a member of the Leibniz Association until 2012 and is coordinator of the FishBase Consortium. Since 2012 it is member of the Helmholtz Association and named GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. The institute operates worldwide in all ocean basins, specialising in climate dynamics, marine ecology and biogeochemistry, and ocean floor dynamics and circulation. GEOMAR offers degree courses in affiliation with the University of Kiel, and operates the Kiel Aquarium and the Lithothek, a repository for split sediment core samples.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: research
Legal form: public foundation
Country of registration: Germany
Headquarters: —
Formed in: —
Founded: 2012
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: —

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 51.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1975
Newest vessel on record: 1975
Largest vessel by tonnage: 185
Average tonnage: 185
Market share: —
Parent company: Kiel University
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 GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Research / survey1

By flag state

Germany1

By shipbuilder

Schiffswerft Diedrich1

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

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Littorina	7360942	Research / survey	Germany	1975	185	—	29.8 m	Schiffswerft Diedrich

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 GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel 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, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel 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 GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel 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 2012, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is 14 years old. This directory holds 91 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 Q323945, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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