Gearbulk

Gearbulk Holding Limited

Company type	Private
Industry	Ship transport
Founded	1968; 57 years ago (1968)
Headquarters	Hamilton , Bermuda[1]
Key people	Kristian Gerhard Jebsen[2]
Owner	Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (2025–present)
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.

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]

• Ibis Arrow (4th generation juice carrier)
• Aracari Arrow
• Jacamar Arrow
• Quetzal Arrow
• Hawk Arrow
• Jaegar Arrow
• Emu Arrow
• Kite Arrow
• Grebe Arrow
• Mandarin Arrow
• Merline Arrow
• Penguin Arrow
• Plover Arrow
• Toucan Arrow
• Weaver Arrow
• Corella Arrow
• Macuru Arrow
• Tenca Arrow
• Tuju Arrow
• Canelo Arrow
• Cedar Arrow
• Pine Arrow
• Poplar Arrow

References

1. Gearbulk (2008). "Offices". Gearbulk Holding Limited. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
2. 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".

External links

• Gearbulk Shipping AS at Det Norske Veritas Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Gearbulk Shipowning Ltd. at Det Norske Veritas Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine