Oldendorff Carriers

Oldendorff marks milestone: 125 women sailing onboard its ships

The recently released Women in Maritime Survey 2024, jointly published by IMO and the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA), showed that, at sea, women remain vastly underrepresented, accounting for just 1% of the total number of seafarers employed. With a worldwide shortage of seafarers, a number of leading ship operators are working to change that situation — including leading dry bulk operator Oldendorff Carriers. The Lübeck, Germany, headquartered company reports that...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/oldendorff-marks-milestone-125-women-sailing-onboard-its-ships/

With a new name, Chinook Oldendorff starts sailing with rotor sails

Oldendorff Carriers reports that it has now completed the successful installation and operational deployment of Norsepower rotor sails on the post-Panamax bulk carrier Chinook Oldendorff.

Through a joint agreement first announced in December 2023, when it was named Dietrich Oldendorff, the 2020-built vessel transports Elk Valley Resources (EVR) steelmaking coal from the Port of Vancouver to customers across the Pacific Ocean.

The vessel was renamed the Chinook Oldendorff to reflect the synergy...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/with-a-new-name-chinook-oldendorff-starts-sailing-with-rotor-sails/

NTSB releases report on $5M bulker Sirocco breakaway

The National Transportation Safety Board hashas issued its report on the March 27, 2023, incident in which the 751-foot long bulk carrier Sirocco broke free from its moorings at the Convent Marine Terminal dock in Convent, La., while loading a cargo of coal.

The Sirocco, operated by V.Ships Asia Group Pte Ltd, and under charter to Oldendorff Carriers GmbH, drifted a half mile down the Mississippi River and collided with a barge moored at the Mosaic Uncle Sam dock.

No injuries or pollution were...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/ntsb-releases-report-on-5m-bulker-sirocco-breakaway/

Teck and Oldendorff to fit bulker with rotor sails

In another example of how charterers are helping push forward the move to greener shipping, Canadian mining giant Teck Resources is making a joint investment with Oldendorff Carriers that will see Norsepower rotor sails retrofitted to the vessel Dietrich Oldendorff.

The ship, which carries shipments of Teck steelmaking coal from the Port of Vancouver, will be outfitted with the rotor sail system by mid-2024.

The rotor sails generate lift from the wind, which is translated into additional thrust,...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/environment/__trashed/

Oldendorff sheds light on biofuel stability and degradationcarr

While vessel operators are often ready to burnish their green credentials by reporting biofuel bunkerings, they seldom have much to say about what the long term results were. Lübeck, Germany, headquartered dry bulk operator Oldendorff Carriers, though, is somewhat different.

In 2019, Oldendorff signed a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA). The purpose of the research agreement was to investigate disruptive improvements in ship...

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