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freight transport
Reported fleet size
29
Published by the industry · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30
Container capacity
142,180 TEU
Published capacity · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30
Gross tonnage on record
48,457
Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage
This company reports 29 ships while this registry holds individual records for 2. That gap is coverage, not a contradiction: open reference data documents a minority of the world fleet ship by ship. The list below is what can be named and verified.
In brief
The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line Group (Persian: گروه کشتیرانی جمهوری اسلامی ایران, Goruh-e Keshtirāni-ye Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān), commonly known by its business name IRISL Group, is a shipping line based in and owned by Iran. Its fleet comprises 115 ocean-going vessels with a total capacity of 3.3 million tons deadweight (DWT), with 87 being ocean-going vessels owned by IRISL and the remaining 28 ships being owned under the flags of subsidiary companies, including Khazar Shipping, Valfajr and Iran-India Shipping. They are crewed by 6,000 personnel who work under the Iranian flag in the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, international waters and various ports of the world.
IRISL was sanctioned by the United States, United Nations, European Union, and other parties for assisting in Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile development programs. However, the line had expected to return to the world market in 2016, after the Iran nuclear deal was signed by Iran, the P5+1/EU3+3 powers, and the EU in August 2015. In 2015, IRISL had announced its plans to become one of the world's top ten shipping lines by 2020. After the United States withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, US sanctions against IRISL were reimposed on 8 June 2020. On 7 January 2022, shipping knowledge base Alphaliner ranked IRISL as 14th in its Top 100 league chart of global shipping lines.
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to IRISL Group. 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 | — | 2 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 2 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8107579 | Unclassified | Iran | 1983 | 25,168 | — | 199.5 m | Navantia | |
| 9270684 | Container ship | Iran | 2012 | 23,289 | 29,870 | 187.3 m | Iran Shipbuilding & Offshore Industries Complex |
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 2 vessels attributed to it here, IRISL Group 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.
Iran is the country of registration for 2 commercial operators in this directory, among which IRISL Group ranks 1st by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 3 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Iran.
Founded in 1979, IRISL Group is 47 years old. This directory holds 81 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.
Same country
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q1674101, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from IRISL Group on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresAlphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia), as of 2026-04-30. These are the industry’s numbers, not this directory’s.