What Okee Maritime Gmbh does

OKEE Maritime GmbH is a Hamburg-based, privately held German shipowner and maritime asset manager operating a fleet of nine vessels. The company provides commercial management, shipowning, technical management, chartering, and day-to-day operations services under a single corporate structure, with dedicated contact channels for each function. Its tonnage spans geared feeder container vessels (950–1,841 TEU) sourced from yards such as Wenchong, Hyundai Mipo, Daesun, Hansen, and Shin Kurushima, plus an MR2 product tanker of 53,688 Dwt, providing exposure to container, reefer, and clean-product tanker trades.

The business is run by two Geschäftsführende Gesellschafter (Managing Partners), Georg von Rantzau and Jan Wolff, with no disclosed external investors or parent company. It is registered as a German private limited company (GmbH) at Amtsgericht Hamburg (HRB 131589) and operates from Neuer Jungfernstieg 5 in Hamburg. The go-to-market is relationship-based B2B, with direct outreach to shipping companies and brokers; pricing is negotiated case-by-case and is not publicly disclosed. GDPR compliance is maintained, and there is no public evidence of proprietary software, APIs, or digital product offerings.

The company has no disclosed funding rounds, no M&A activity, no named customers, no headcount data, and no revenue figures. Its vessels were built between 1998 and 2008, indicating a mature, stable operating posture rather than active fleet expansion. Forward-looking signals (newbuilds, geographic expansion, leadership changes, capital raises) are absent from the available source material, making trajectory and growth direction unclassifiable from the evidence.

Name

Okee Maritime Gmbh

Legal name

OKEE Maritime GmbH

Website

https://okee-maritime.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

OKEE Maritime GmbH is a Hamburg-based private shipowner and maritime asset manager operating nine vessels (feeder container, reefer, and MR2 product tanker tonnage) and providing integrated commercial, technical, chartering, and operations services to global shipping counterparties.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Maritime Ship Management Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Water Transportation (4883)

SIC

Deep Sea Foreign Transportation Of Freight (4412), Water Transportation (4400)

akta.pro primary industry

Offshore Support & Marine Logistics Vessel Operators (PSV/AHTS) (TLADABAL)

Keywords

• Ship management services
• Vessel chartering
• Maritime asset management
• Commercial ship management
• Container vessel operations

Headquarters

HQ city

Hamburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Okee Maritime GmbH is a Hamburg-based maritime company that owns and operates a fleet of 9 vessels, including container vessels (950 to 1841 TEU), reefer container vessels, and a 53,688 Dwt MR2 product tanker. The company delivers integrated maritime services covering commercial management, shipowning, technical management, chartering, and day-to-day vessel operations for shipping companies and vessel owners. It serves as a single point of contact for multiple maritime asset management needs.

Product overview

OKEE Maritime GmbH is a Hamburg-based maritime company operating a fleet of 9 vessels across two categories: container vessels (OKEE Piper, OKEE August, OKEE Cuno, OKEE Alicia, OKEE Gustav, OKEE Henri, and OKEE LILO ranging from 950 to 1841 TEU) and a product tanker (OKEE Ulf at 53,688 Dwt). The company provides integrated maritime services including Commercial Management, Shipowning, and Maritime Asset Management to operate and manage its vessel portfolio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Commercial Management
• Shipowning
• Maritime Asset Management
• Technical Management
• Chartering
• Vessel Operations

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Reederei F. Laeisz: Hamburg-headquartered, family-owned shipowner operating a diversified fleet of container and specialized vessels. Closely comparable in scale, Hamburg origin, and privately-held integrated shipowning/management approach.
• Leonhardt & Blumberg: Hamburg-based shipowner and ship management firm operating feeder container vessels. Comparable in feeder-container focus, Hamburg base, and integrated shipowning/commercial management offering.
• Hartmann Reederei: German family-owned shipowner/operator with a similar mid-size, diversified fleet including container and other vessel types. Closely comparable in size, governance structure (family-owned), and integrated shipowning/commercial management model.
• Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG: Hamburg-based shipowner and shipmanager with a broad container and bulk fleet. Comparable as a mid-sized Hamburg private shipowner offering integrated technical and commercial management alongside shipowning.
• Ernst Russ AG: Hamburg-based shipowner and shipmanager with a diversified fleet of container vessels and tankers. Comparable as a German mid-market public/private shipowner-operator with similar vessel categories.

Broad incumbents

• Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement: Hamburg-based, family-owned global shipmanager and shipowner with a large diversified fleet. Comparable in offering integrated technical/commercial management and shipowning, though at a far larger scale than OKEE.
• Vroon: Dutch, family-owned shipping company with diversified tonnage including container vessels and product tankers. Comparable as an established European privately-held operator in overlapping vessel categories, though at meaningfully larger scale.
• Rhenus Maritime Services: Part of the Rethmann Group, with maritime and logistics operations including shipowning and ship management. Comparable in providing integrated maritime services in the Hamburg ecosystem, though embedded in a much larger logistics group.

Others

• HCI Capital (HAMBURG SÜD affiliate / maritime KG): Hamburg-based provider of ship and real estate investments, historically a major arranger of German KG ship funds. Relevant as a Hamburg-ecosystem participant in shipowning capital structures that interact with operators like OKEE.

Regional players

• MPC Capital: Hamburg-based asset and investment manager specializing in maritime and real estate, with shipowning and shipmanagement activities. Comparable as a Hamburg-headquartered maritime player managing tonnage across segments.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/okee-maritime-gmbh

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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