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Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde

Headquarters: Warnemünde
Founded: 1992
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Daniel Mietchen · CC0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

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

5,573

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde is

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The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) (German: Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde) is a non-university research institution located in Warnemünde (Rostock), Germany. Its main focus lies in the interdisciplinary study of coastal oceans and marginal seas, especially related to the Baltic Sea. It was founded in 1992 and is part of the Leibniz Association. The institute is the successor of the former Institute of Oceanography ("Institut für Meereskunde") which was part of the East German Academy of Science.

The institute is divided in five departments: Physical Oceanography, Marine Chemistry, Biological Oceanography, Marine Geology and Marine Observations. The research is based on the ten-year research programme "Perspectives of Coastal Research" 2024-2033, which comprises three interdisciplinary research areas. Central task of the institute is fundamental to applied research but also teaching at the University of Rostock and the University of Greifswald. It employs about 260 people, thereof ca. 150 researchers. IOW has direct access to the research vessel Elisabeth Mann Borgese. The institute is financed by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Education and Space (BMFTR) and the Ministry of Research, Culture, Federal and European Affairs of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: Germany
Headquarters: Warnemünde
Formed in: —
Founded: 1992
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 54.1768, 12.0856

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 20.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 2006
Newest vessel on record: 2006
Largest vessel by tonnage: 5,573
Average tonnage: 5,573
Market share: —
Parent company: Leibniz Association
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 Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde. 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

Lürssen-Kröger-Werft1

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 · Research / survey

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
RV Maria S. Merian	9274197	Research / survey	Germany	2006	5,573	—	94.8 m	Lürssen-Kröger-Werft

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 Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde 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, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde 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 Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde 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 1992, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde is 34 years old. This directory holds 140 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 Q872595, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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