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Wilh. Wilhelmsen

Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding ASA

Headquarters: Lysaker
Founded: 1861
Employees: 28,000

Official website

Photo: Bahnfrend · 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

171,059

Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Wilh. Wilhelmsen is

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Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding ASA (WWH) is a Norwegian multinational maritime group, headquartered in Lysaker, Norway. The group employs more than 21,000 people and has operations in 75 nations. The Wilhelmsen group operates the largest maritime network in the world, with over 2200 locations worldwide.
The WW group was founded on 1 October 1861 in Tønsberg. The company's first vessel was the barque Mathilde in 1886. In 1887 they bought the steamboat Talabot. It was only after they bought Talabot that the company started making profits. Thereafter all their ships have been named starting with the letter "T", often leading to the same name given repeatedly to different ships over time. For example, there have been at least four ships named Talabot ranging from tankers to ro-ro vessels.

Origin

Who founded it

Wilh. Wilhelmsen was founded in 1861 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Wilhelm Wilhelmsen

1839–1910

Norwegian shipping magnate (1839–1910)

Photo: Ansgar Theodor Larsen · Public domain · file

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

Thomas Wilhelmsen

1974

Norwegian shipping magnate (born 1974)

Photo: Tore Sætre · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding ASA
Industry: shipping line
Legal form: allmennaksjeselskap
Country of registration: Norway
Headquarters: Lysaker
Formed in: —
Founded: 1861
Dissolved: —
Employees: 28,000
Listed on: Oslo Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: NO0010576010
Legal Entity Identifier: 54930050TPKOLSE1ZZ71
Head office coordinates: 59.9127, 10.6373

Ships on record here: 3
Vessel types operated: 3
Flag states used: 3
Average vessel age: 27.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1984
Newest vessel on record: 2010
Largest vessel by tonnage: 66,635
Average tonnage: 57,020
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Reported financials

Financial year 2012

All figures in USD

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

3.4bn USD

Reported for 2012

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to Wilh. Wilhelmsen. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries1

Minaminippon Shipbuilding1

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries1

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	—	3
2018	—	3
2019	—	3
2020	—	3
2021	—	3
2022	—	3
2023	—	3
2024	—	3
2025	—	3
2026	—	3

Vessel records

Ships on record · Car carrier

Show all types

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Heroic Ace	9252216	Car carrier	Panama	2003	56,439	19,879	198.0 m	Minaminippon Shipbuilding

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 Wilh. Wilhelmsen 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, Wilh. Wilhelmsen 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.

Norway is the country of registration for 150 commercial operators in this directory, among which Wilh. Wilhelmsen ranks 52nd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 831 vessels here. See every operator registered in Norway.

Founded in 1861, Wilh. Wilhelmsen is 165 years old. This directory holds 33 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 Q947372, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Wilh. Wilhelmsen on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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