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Type
  
Private

Headquarters
  
Hamilton

Founded
  
1968

Industry
  
Ship transport

Founder
  
Kristian Gerhard Jebsen

Parent organization
  
Gearbulk Holding Limited

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Key people
  
Kristian Gerhard Jebsen

Number of employees
  
600 office staff worldwide 3000 operational and seafaring staff

Gearbulk Holding Limited is an international shipping company headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda. The company operates the world's largest fleet of open hatch gantry and semi-open jib craned vessels. These vessels specialise in carrying unitised breakbulk cargoes like forest products, non-ferrous metals, and steel. The company also has a revenue stream in terminal operations.

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Gearbulk was founded by Kristian Gerhard Jebsen of Bergen, Norway in 1968, and took over the Dublin Shipping company in 1998.

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Fleet

As of October 2014, the Gearbulk fleet consists of 64 vessels, most of which are "open hatch gantry craned (OHGC)" vessels. Standardising on this design makes the vessels interchangeable, and offers operational flexibility.

Gearbulk also operates open hatch jib craned (Fleximax) vessels and several bulk carriers for general bulk cargoes.

Early 2015 Gearbulk lost the MS Bulk Jupiter when it sank off the coast of Vietnam.

References

Gearbulk Wikipedia