Gearbulk Holding Ltd. is an international
shipping company
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that 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.
Headquartered in
Pfäffikon,
Switzerland
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, it also has a revenue stream in terminal operations. Founded by
Kristian Gerhard Jebsen of
Bergen, Norway
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By May 2025 the population is 294 029 according to Statistics Norway. The municipali ...
in 1968,
it took over the
Dublin Shipping company thirty years later.
In January 2025, it was announced that
Japan
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-based group MOL (
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (; abbreviated MOL) is a Japanese transport company headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the largest shipping companies in the world.
Founded as a key part of the Mitsui ''zaibatsu'' (family-owned ...
) had completed the purchase of a majority stake (72%) in Gearbulk.
Fleet
As of October 2014, the Gearbulk fleet consisted of 64 vessels, most of which were "open hatch gantry craned (
OHGC)" vessels.
Standardising on this design makes the vessels interchangeable, and offers operational flexibility.
Gearbulk also operates open hatch
jib crane
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d (Fleximax) vessels and several
bulk carrier
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s for general
bulk cargo
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Description
Bulk cargo refers to material in either liquid or granular, particulate (as a mass of relatively small solids) form, ...
es.
On 2 January 2015, the
MS ''Bulk Jupiter'' sank off the coast of
Vũng Tàu
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, Vietnam.
List of ships
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* 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
External links
Gearbulk Shipping AS at Det Norske Veritas
Gearbulk Shipowning Ltd. at Det Norske Veritas
Shipping companies of Switzerland
2025 mergers and acquisitions
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