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6th April 2021
Earlier this year, OLDENDORFF CARRIERS has ordered two 61,300 Ultramax Newbuildings for delivery July 2022 and acquired two 93,000 tdw Post-panamaxes in separate transactions, in addition to the recent sale of "Lily Oldendorff" (38,000 tdw, built 2017 at Avic Weihai). These transaction and ships, that were recently taken on period charter, makes Oldendorff Carriers’s fleet under operation to exceed 750 vessels.
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26th January 2021
Oldendorff Carriers (OC) has signed a Joint Development Project (JDP) with Anemoi Marine Technologies (Anemoi), Lloyd’s Register (LR) and Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI) to develop a wind-assisted propulsion solution for Dry Bulk Carriers. The project, scheduled for completion in 2022, breaks down significant barriers for the installation of rotor sails technology and paves the path for commercial-ready applications across the industry in the short-term.
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14th December 2020
Oldendorff Carriers has completed the implementation of a certified Inventory of Hazardous Material (IHM) across the entire fleet. This development has been finalised ahead of the regulatory EU deadline. Looking beyond what it is mandated in the IHM legislation, we have implemented a fully-digitised solution for the IHM maintainance that removes the administrative workload from our crews and enhance our fleet’s efficiency to comply with IHM regulations.
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30th November 2020
With M/V “Henry Oldendorff” named by Ms. Wei of ICBC Financial Leasing (Beijing) today, we have completed the first of four newbuildings to be delivered from Hantong Shipyard in China between now and late summer 2021. When the last vessel is delivered, we will have built a total of 19 ship at this shipbuilder since 2019, consisting of 12 Kamsarmaxes and 7 Newcastlemaxes. Other newbuildings to join our fleet are the two specialized Transloaders for deployment at the Vietnam transshipment location.
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17th November 2020
We are pleased to confirm, that we agreed a deal to sell 6 of our Ultramaxes to China Development Bank Leasing (CDBL) with floating bareboat charter back. This sale means, that we now have done 25 transactions with CDBL, with whom we enjoy an excellent cooperation.
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17th July 2020
Oldendorff Carriers has taken delivery of a total of 23 bulk carrier newbuildings since 2019. Our newbuilding programme is still in full swing and by 2021 we will - in addition to our own ships - also have taken delivery of another 16 newbuildings, which we had agreed to charter long term from other owners. Furthermore, from 2013 onwards our S&P desk has done a total 226 transactions (buying and selling) for second hand vessels, newbuildings and newbuilding resales.
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14th June 2020
Oldendorff Carriers and Tata Power have announced a comprehensive package deal involving the acquisition of 3 Capesize bulk carriers at an en bloc price of US$ 212,7 M. The agreement includes the long term contracts of affreightment for the transportation of cargo to India.
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20th March 2020
Our email addresses remain the best way to contact us. All employees mobile contact details can be found in the Finder on our website. We continue to be fully functional and available.
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28th January 2020
In August 2019, Oldendorff Carriers received the petition of supporting the MV Hispania Graeca to salvage its cargo of 61,800 MT of Soya Beans. This has been another successful salvage operation carried out by Oldendorff, which demonstrates how our “one-stop shipping” service is ready to cater almost immediately any bulk transportation requirement
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14th January 2020
Four newbuildings out of five, which are currently under construction at Oshima in Japan, will be christened within just two hours in March 2020. At the same time we will celebrate decades of close cooperation with Japanese shipyards, namely Oshima, well-known for its super-eco bulk carrier designs.
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9th December 2019
Oldendorff Carriers is pleased to announce its membership in the Getting to Zero Coalition. The Coalition is an alliance of more than 100 likeminded companies and organisations within the maritime sphere, supported by key governments and IGOs. All members of the Coalition are committed to achieving the vision of decarbonizing in shipping and meeting the IMO targets.
19th November 2019
In our quest to make our vessels more green and economical, Oldendorff Carriers has signed a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA). Oldendorff, together with CBA and its campus collaborators including MIT's Sea Grant Program, will investigate disruptive improvements in ship design and propulsion to achieve the IMO 2030/50 requirements.
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1st November 2019
Oldendorff carriers signed a Contract of Affreightment with ‘BCPCL’. Oldendorff will provide a full transportation solution to BCPCL, which includes cargo transportation from Indonesia or Australia with transshipment in Andaman & Nicobar to Payra, Bangladesh. The cargo transshipment will allow BCPCL to take advantage of lower freight costs using larger vessels to Andaman & Nicobar, and smaller vessels will deliver the cargo to BCPCL, due to draft restrictions at Payra port. The expected quantity of cargo to be shipped will be between 3.8 – 4.5 million mts per year, for a period of 5 years.
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28th October 2019
The Lydia Oldendorff (207,562 tdw built 2015) has set a record as the largest vessel to load coal at Puerto Bolivar, Colombia. The Newcastlemax vessel has a length of 300 metres and a breadth of 50 metres and was loaded on a trial cargo draft of 17.5 metres. The cargo loaded is destined for Flushing, Netherlands, where it will again be the largest vessel to enter the port.
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3rd June 2019
During the last 12 months, Oldendorff Carriers have been able to complete a total of 23 deals with 3 Chinese leasing companies. None of these deals involve lease finance. The charters we provided are market related and mostly on a floating index rate basis. The 10 Capes and Kamsarmaxes will all be equipped with scrubbers, eight of them with open loop scrubbers and two of them with hybrid scrubbers.
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27th May 2019
Oldendorff Carriers has started to equip our entire fleet of bulk carriers with efficient and environmentally friendly LED lights. Over the last year, we have done a series of trials to analyse the performance of different LED manufacturer’s lights, including intensities and colors.
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18th February 2019
Oldendorff Carriers has entered into an agreement with GSR Services and Korean Register (KR) for the development and certification of Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) for their fleet for meeting tight EU - deadlines.
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4th February 2019
In our continuous effort to upgrade our fleet, 2019 started with the delivery of five new eco-ships delivered to Oldendorff Carriers, four of which were delivered on the same day. We are always trying to reduce our environmental impact and these new (fuel-efficient) vessels will reduce fuel consumption for transporting cargo and consequently reduce our carbon footprint.
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18th January 2019
Oldendorff has sold the three remaining self-unloaders still operating in the CSL Pool: Sophie Oldendorff (70,037 tdw built 2000), Harmen Oldendorff (66,188 tdw built 2005) & Alice Oldendorff (50,259 tdw built 2000) for US$100.5 million to Algoma Central Corporation who is the third partner in the CSL Pool. The vessels are expected to deliver to Algoma around the middle of 2019. All three vessels have been trading in the CSL Pool on the East Coast of North and South America since they were built.
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31st October 2018
These two eco Handies have an interesting story: We originally ordered them in June 2012 at the then Korean controlled yard. in 2015, the Korean mother company got into trouble. The yard was later rescued by the diversified Shanghai Zhouji Group, which employs 42,000 people worldwide. In July 2017, we bought the ships once again from the new entity as resales.
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27th September 2018
UK based Datum Electronics has been awarded a contract from Oldendorff Carriers, to supply our owned fleet with Datum Shaft Power Meter systems, to seamlessly integrate with various existing ship performance monitoring systems. As a part of our eco fleet strategy, over 90% of the Oldendorff owned fleet is now comprised of environmentally friendly vessels. Oldendorff is implementing fleet and ship performance monitoring systems, which are aimed at reducing our carbon footprint, while improving the technical and operational efficiency of our ships.
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20th September 2018
The Oldendorff Carriers London office is still recovering from the wonderful OSCAR dragon boat race last Friday. Oldendorff London were the biggest fundraisers for the event, raising a total of £11,367, the funds were raised by the very generous contributions of clients and colleagues. Our team came second in the dragon boat final, missing the top position by a nose, just three tenths of a second. Of course, we had a few young, strong recruits from our Hamburg office to beef up our team, and Oscar.
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3rd September 2018
Oldendorff Carriers and Sea IT announce a new strategic ICT agreement. The agreement covers the installation and management of a customised internet package for crew aboard all Oldendorff owned vessels. Sea IT will manage and carry the responsibility for the whole project, which includes ICT-installations on 80 vessels followed by a 3-year service contract.
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27th August 2018
Following our successful transhipment project at the Go Gia buoys in South Vietnam, which commenced last year, Oldendorff Carriers has recently signed an integrated Cargo Transport and Transhipment Agreement for a new Power Station Project to be built in the North of Vietnam at Nghi Son. The customer is a consortium between Marubeni Corp of Japan and Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) named Nghi Son 2 Power Limited Liability Company (NS2PC).
