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Médecins Sans Frontières

Headquarters: Geneva
Founded: 1971
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Jklamo · CC BY-SA 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

3,902

Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Médecins Sans Frontières is

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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; pronounced [medsɛ̃ sɑ̃ fʁɔ̃tjɛʁ] ), French for Doctors Without Borders, is a charity that provides humanitarian medical care. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases. The organisation provides care for diabetes, drug-resistant infections, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, tropical and neglected diseases, tuberculosis, vaccines and COVID-19. In 2024, the charity was active in more than 75 countries with over 67,000 personnel; mostly local doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, logistical experts, water and sanitation engineers, and administrators. Private donors provide about 98% of the organisation's funding, giving MSF an annual income of approximately EUR 2.36 billion.

MSF was founded in 1971, in the aftermath of the Biafran famine of the Nigerian Civil War, by a small group of French doctors and journalists who sought to expand accessibility to medical care across national boundaries and irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation. MSF's principles and operational guidelines are highlighted in its Charter, the Chantilly Principles, and the later La Mancha Agreement. Governance is addressed in Section 2 of the Rules portion of this final document.

Origin

Who founded it

Médecins Sans Frontières was founded in 1971 by 7 named founders on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Philippe Bernier

1930–2000

French journalist (1930–2000)

Founder

Marcel Delcourt

1927–2015

French diplomat and physician (1927–2015)

Founder

Vladan Radoman

1936–2015

Serbian writer (1936-2015)

Founder

Xavier Emmanuelli

1938–2025

French physician

Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/besoindair/ · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file

Founder

Raymond Borel

French doctor

Founder

Jacques Bérès

1941–2023

French orthopedic surgeon (1941–2023)

Founder

Max Récamier

1930–2023

otolaryngologist (1920–2023)

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

Javid Abdelmoneim

1975

British physician and television presenter (born 1979)

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: association
Country of registration: Switzerland
Headquarters: Geneva
Formed in: —
Founded: 1971
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 46.2000, 6.1500

Ships on record here: 2
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 44.5 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1977
Newest vessel on record: 1986
Largest vessel by tonnage: 2,090
Average tonnage: 1,951
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Reported financials

Financial year 2024

All figures in EUR

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

2.4bn EUR

Reported for 2024

Corporate structure

Ownership and holdings

Subsidiaries and units (21)

Doctors without Borders CanadaDoctors Without Borders USDoctors without Borders LuxembourgDoctors without Borders UKDoctors without Borders BelgiumDoctors Without Borders South AfricaDoctors without Borders SpainDoctors Without Borders GermanyDoctors without Borders NorwayDoctors without Borders NetherlandsDoctors without Borders SwitzerlandDoctors withour Borders ItaliaDoctors without Borders BrazilDoctors without Borders JapanDoctors without Borders MexicoDoctors without Borders SwedenDoctors without Borders Hong KongDoctors without Borders Central AfricaDoctors without Borders South AsiaDoctors without Borders GreeceDoctors without Borders Latin America

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Médecins Sans Frontières. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Offshore supply1

Unclassified1

By flag state

Norway1

By shipbuilder

Lürssen1

Trosvik Verksted1

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 · Offshore supply

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Ocean Viking	8506854	Offshore supply	Norway	1986	2,090	—	59.6 m	Trosvik 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

How Médecins Sans Frontières 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, Médecins Sans Frontières 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.

Switzerland is the country of registration for 10 commercial operators in this directory, among which Médecins Sans Frontières ranks 5th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 81 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Switzerland.

Founded in 1971, Médecins Sans Frontières is 55 years old. This directory holds 115 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.