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Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research

Koninklijk NIOZ

Headquarters: Texel
Founded: 1876
Employees: —

Official website

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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Gross tonnage on record

5,095

Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research is

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The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, also known as NIOZ, in Dutch the Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee, is the Dutch national oceanographic institute. It is located on the island of Texel, and in Yerseke, in the Netherlands. The institute was founded in 1876 as the Zoological Station and in 1960 it was renamed to its current name. NIOZ carries out marine research in the waters of the Netherlands and overseas; it also plays a role in educating students, and it offers research facilities to marine scientists from the Netherlands and other countries worldwide. NIOZ has a longstanding collaboration with Utrecht University, for instance in an interdisciplinary Master’s programme Marine Sciences. NIOZ is part of the institutes organization of the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: Koninklijk NIOZ
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: Netherlands
Headquarters: Texel
Formed in: —
Founded: 1876
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 53.0833, 4.8333

Ships on record here: 3
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 40.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1981
Newest vessel on record: 1991
Largest vessel by tonnage: 3,480
Average tonnage: 2,548
Market share: —
Parent company: Dutch Research Council
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Research / survey3

By flag state

Netherlands3

By shipbuilder

Astilleros Armón Vigo1

Verolme Scheepswerf Heusden1

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

3 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Anna Weber-van Bosse	9992919	Research / survey	Netherlands	—	3,480	—	80.0 m	Astilleros Armón Vigo
Pelagia	9001461	Research / survey	Netherlands	1991	1,615	—	66.1 m	Verolme Scheepswerf Heusden
Navicula	8632110	Research / survey	Netherlands	1981	—	—	23.9 m	—

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 Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea 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 3 vessels attributed to it here, Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research is the 262nd 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.

Netherlands is the country of registration for 78 commercial operators in this directory, among which Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research ranks 13th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 151 vessels here. See every operator registered in Netherlands.

Founded in 1876, Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research is 150 years old. This directory holds 41 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.