Gearbulk

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Gearbulk Holding Limited
Company type Private
Industry Ship transport
Founded1968;57 years ago (1968)
Headquarters
Hamilton
,
Bermuda [1]
Key people
 Kristian Gerhard Jebsen [2]
Owner
Number of employees
600 office staff worldwide [2]
3000 operational and seafaring staff [2]
Website http://www.gearbulk.com/

Gearbulk Holding Ltd. is an international shipping company that operates the world's largest fleet of open hatch gantry and semi-open jib craned vessels. [2] These vessels specialise in carrying unitised breakbulk cargoes like forest products, non-ferrous metals, and steel.

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Headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, it also has a revenue stream in terminal operations. Founded by Kristian Gerhard Jebsen of Bergen, Norway in 1968, [2] [3] it took over the Dublin Shipping company thirty years later. [4]

In January 2025, it was announced that Japan-based group MOL (Mitsui O.S.K. Lines) had completed the purchase of a majority stake (72%) in Gearbulk. [5]

Fleet

As of October 2014, the Gearbulk fleet consisted of 64 vessels, most of which were "open hatch gantry craned (OHGC)" vessels. [2] Standardising on this design makes the vessels interchangeable, and offers operational flexibility. [2] Gearbulk also operates open hatch jib craned (Fleximax) vessels and several bulk carriers for general bulk cargoes. [2]

On 2 January 2015, the MS Bulk Jupiter sank off the coast of Vũng Tàu, Vietnam. [6]

List of ships

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Gearbulk (2008). "Offices". Gearbulk Holding Limited. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Gearbulk (2008). "About Us". Gearbulk Holding Limited. Archived from the original on 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
  3. ↑ Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Skipsrederi AS (KGJS) (2008). "About Us". KGJS Web site. KGJS. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
  4. ↑ Humphries, George. "Seafaring Memories of Dublin Shipping". Archived from the original on 2007-11-19. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
  5. ↑ "MOL completes acquisition of majority stake in Gearbulk". Seatrade Maritime. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  6. ↑ "Anthony Poole, blogs.platts.com" . Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Fleet List - Gearbulk - International Shipping". Archived from the original on 2020-01-24. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
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