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Norwegian Institute of Marine Research

Headquarters: Bergen
Founded: 1900
Employees: 1,070

Official website

Photo: Dag Endresen · 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

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Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

14,254

Summed over 4 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Norwegian Institute of Marine Research is

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The Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (Norwegian: Havforskningsinstituttet) is a national consultative research institute which is owned by the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs. The institute performs research and provides advisory services in the fields of marine ecosystems and aquaculture.
With a staff of almost 1100, the Institute of Marine Research is the largest centre of marine research in Norway, and among the largest in Europe. The institute has a highly qualified scientific staff, high-technology research stations and laboratories in Austevoll, Bergen (head office), Flødevigen (Arendal) and Matre, a department in Tromsø and several vessels.

The primary responsibility of the Institute of Marine Research is to provide advice to national authorities, society and industry regarding questions related to the ecosystems of the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea and the Norwegian coastal zone and in the field of aquaculture. The institute is heavily engaged in development aid activities through its Centre for Development Cooperation in Fisheries.

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

Nils Gunnar Kvamstø

1964

researcher

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: research
Legal form: —
Country of registration: Norway
Headquarters: Bergen
Formed in: —
Founded: 1900
Dissolved: —
Employees: 1,070
Head office coordinates: 60.3925, 5.3233

Ships on record here: 4
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 20.5 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1979
Newest vessel on record: 2023
Largest vessel by tonnage: 9,000
Average tonnage: 3,564
Market share: —
Parent company: Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to Norwegian Institute of Marine Research. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Research / survey3

Unclassified1

By flag state

Norway4

By shipbuilder

Fincantieri1

Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk AS1

Holland Shipyards Group1

Mjellem & Karlsen Verft1

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. 2 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	1	9,000	3
2018	0	—	3
2019	0	—	3
2020	0	—	3
2021	0	—	3
2022	0	—	3
2023	1	497	4
2024	0	—	4
2025	0	—	4
2026	0	—	4

Vessel records

Ships on record · Research / survey

Show all types

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
RV Kronprins Haakon	9739587	Research / survey	Norway	2017	9,000	—	100.4 m	Fincantieri
M/S Michael Sars	7805136	Research / survey	Norway	1979	690	—	47.0 m	Mjellem & Karlsen Verft
Prinsesse Ingrid Alexandra	9941477	Research / survey	Norway	2023	497	—	35.0 m	Holland Shipyards Group

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 Norwegian Institute of Marine Research compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 4 vessels attributed to it here, Norwegian Institute of Marine Research is the 213th 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.

Norway is the country of registration for 150 commercial operators in this directory, among which Norwegian Institute of Marine Research ranks 45th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 831 vessels here. See every operator registered in Norway.

Founded in 1900, Norwegian Institute of Marine Research is 126 years old. This directory holds 50 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 Q6515551, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Norwegian Institute of Marine Research on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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