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Welcome to Jebsen Shipping Partners

Joint Expertise of 300 Years of Family-Run Ship Management

Founded on generations of German craftsmanship, Jebsen Shipping Partners emerged from the fusion of four ship management families, Jebsen, Kahrs, Becker and Boehe, each contributing unique expertise acquired, collectively, in more than 300 years of hands-on spirit and passion.

JSP is not just yet another ship manager. We consider ourselves a maritime-based service and investment provider. Our speciality is  identifying unique investment opportunities, developing comprehensive solutions, operating vessels directly, and achieving measurable leads and results for our partners.

Our Team


Active Members of the Team

Every single member of Jebsen Shipping Partners contributes an individual set of skills and competencies to the company. Beyond that, all of their professional efforts are backed by strong personalities who push business forward. Some of them you can find below.

Arnd Becker

Technical & Nautical

As a diplomaed engineer, in 2005 Arnd Becker joined his family business, which was founded inthe 1890's. Before that, he gained hands-on experience on vessel trading worldwide. Between 1998 and 2002 he studied at the Hamburg Institute of Ship Operation, Sea Transport and Simulation (ISSUS). On that basis, he enriched his expertise by working as a ship operating officer as well as engineer officer on board of multiple container ships. In 2008 Arnd Becker became managing director of Bernd Becker Shipmanagement GmbH & Co. KG and in 2013 CEO of HSM Hanseatic Ship Management AG. Arnd Becker is one of the managing directors of Jebsen Shipping Partners and in charge of technical and nautical management.

  

 

Jan-Peter Boehe

Sale and Purchase & Chartering

Jan-Peter Boehe started his career in Hong Kong in 1985. He studied in both London and Hong Kong and graduated with a degree in ship management. After working as shipbroker in the chartering and sale & purchase business of the shipping industry, in 1991 he joined his family’s Hong Kong-based business, Lubeca Marine Management (HK) Ltd. In 2000 he started his first company, Reederei Boehe in Lübeck, Germany. Under that brand we currently operate six vessels (container ships, general cargo ships as well as multi-purpose ships). Jan-Peter is managing director of Jebsen Shipping Partners and in charge of the group’s projects, as well as the chartering and sale & purchase business.

Jan Kahrs

Quality Management & Payment

Jan Kahrs started his career as a maritime apprentice, quickly earned a master’s degree in deep-sea navigation, and graduated as an engineer for maritime logistics. He then joined his family’s shipping business, active since 1870's and now in its fourth generation, and focused on broadening his expertise in technical and nautical ship management. In the 1990's and later years Jan Kahrs entered into several mergers with other shipping companies in Jork, Germany, significantly growinghis business. Now, as one of the managing directors of Jebsen Shipping Partners, he is responsible for crew staffing and quality management.

Max Gottwald

Operations & Insurance

Our commercial shipping manager, Max Gottwald, began his career as an apprentice with Lubeca Marine from 2006 until 2009. After gathering additional professional experience, including at a London-based shipbroker, Max Gottwald became a partner of Lubeca Marine in 2011. Since then, he has been involved in running and leading the shipping company as a managing director, being in charge of operations and insurance.

Robert Rost

Structure & Finance

Robert Rost started his career as a banker while finishing master of science degree in business administration, and then worked several years as a project and finance expert for the global shipping  operations of Commerzbank AG. In 2006 he switched over to the investment business and worked several years as a rating and evaluation expert, establishing what were at that time emerging secondary markets for ship investments. He then began structuring ship investment solutions of his own and managed several award-winning investment funds with total assets of 1billion. Robert Rost joined Jebsen Shipping Partners as an authorized representative and managing director of MF Jebsen ShipInvest GmbH, being in charge of the group’s corporate management, projects, and finance.

  

Investment

Jebsen Shipping Partners emerged from the fusion of four ship management families, Jebsen, Kahrs, Becker and Boehe, each contributing unique expertise acquired, collectively, in more than 300 years of hands-on spirit and passion – constituting our strong foundation for our high standard ship and investment management.

Our newest project, which we are pursuing in cooperation with our partner company Lubeca Marine, involves several brand-new 5200 dwt mini-bulkers. Thanks to a custom design, the ships feature maximum fuel efficiency while at the same time providing the greatest possible cargo capacity.

The vessels will be delivered starting at the beginning of 2023.

Our Fleet


JSP LØJT

Description
Design: Multipurpose Dry Cargo
Shipyard: Jiangsu Dajin HI
Date built: March 13, 2023
Flag: Portugal

Specifications
DWAT: 5,200
CBFT: 270,000

Dimensions
LOA: 89.98 m
Beam: 15.45 m
Draft: 6.20 m
GT: 3,850

JSP FALSTER

Description
Design: Multipurpose Dry Cargo
Shipyard: Jiangsu Dajin HI
Date built: May 25, 2023
Flag: Portugal

Specifications
DWAT: 5,200
CBFT: 270,000

Dimensions
LOA: 89.98 m
Beam: 15.45 m
Draft: 6.20 m
GT: 3,850

JSP MØN

Description
Design: Multipurpose Dry Cargo
Shipyard: Jiangsu Dajin HI
Date built: October 05, 2023
Flag: Portugal

Specifications
DWAT: 5,200
CBFT: 270,000

Dimensions
LOA: 89.98 m
Beam: 15.45 m
Draft: 6.20 m
GT: 3,850

JSP TORNØ

Description
Design: Multipurpose Dry Cargo
Shipyard: Jiangsu Dajin HI
Date built: December 08, 2023
Flag: Portugal

Specifications
DWAT: 5,200
CBFT: 270,000

Dimensions
LOA: 89.98 m
Beam: 15.45 m
Draft: 6.20 m
GT: 3,850

JSP SAMSØ

Description
Design: Multipurpose Dry Cargo
Shipyard: Jiangsu Dajin HI
Date built: February 05, 2024
Flag: Portugal

Specifications
DWAT: 5,200
CBFT: 270,000

Dimensions
LOA: 89.98 m
Beam: 15.45 m
Draft: 6.20 m
GT: 3,850

CARLA-LIV

Description
Design: B170
Shipyard: Stocznia Szczecinska
Date built: 1998
Flag: Marshall Island

Specifications
DWAT: 23.026 mt
TEU: 1,726
Gear: 3 x 45 mt

Dimensions
LOA: 184,10 m
Beam: 25.00 m
Draft: 8,50 m
GT: 16,177

JSP CARLA

Description
Design: Hegemann 700 
Shipyard: Hegemann Berne
Date built: December 28, 2004
Flag: Portugal 

Specifications
DWAT: 8,900 mt
TEU: 750
Gear: gearless

Dimensions
LOA: 139.90 m
Beam: 19.70 m
Draft: 7.29 m 
GT: 6,901

JSP BORA

Description
Design: CV 1100
Shipyard: Jinlin Shipyard
Date built: September 6, 2007
Flag: Antigua & Barbuda

Specifications
DWAT: 13,803 mt
TEU: 1,118
Gear: 2 x 45 mt

Dimensions
LOA: 147.84 m
Beam: 23.25 m
Draft: 8.50 m 
GT: 9,957

 

JSP ANNA

Description
Design: Sietas Typ 168
Shipyard: J.J. Sietas
Date built: October 13, 2006 
Flag: Germany

Specifications
DWAT: 11,150 mt
TEU: 868
Gear: gearless

Dimensions
LOA: 134.40 m
Beam: 22.50 m
Draft: 8.71 m 
GT: 9,981

JSP MISTRAL

Description
Design: PS 05.2
Shipyard: Peter Schiffbau
Date built: May 30, 2009 
Flag: Antigua & Barbuda

Specifications
DWAT: 10,316 mt
TEU: 907
Gear: gearless

Dimensions
LOA: 138.15 m
Beam: 21.70 m
Draft: 7.74 m 
GT: 8,032

JSP RIDER

Description
Design: Damen Feeder 800
Shipyard: Damen "Hoogezand"
Date built: May 2, 2006
Flag: Antigua & Barbuda

Specifications
DWAT: 9,300 mt
TEU: 804
Gear: gearless

Dimensions
LOA: 140.64m
Beam: 22.01 m
Draft: 7.33 m 
GT: 7,852

JSP ROVER

Description
Design: Damen Feeder 800
Shipyard: Damen "Hoogezand"
Date built: August 16, 2006
Flag: Antigua & Barbuda

Specifications
DWAT: 9,300 mt
TEU: 804
Gear: gearless

Dimensions
LOA: 140.64 m
Beam: 22.01 m
Draft: 7.33 m 
GT: 7,852

JSP SKIRNER

Description
Design: Zhejiang 950
Shipyard: Zhejiang Yangfan Shipping Group
Date built: November 24, 2006
Flag: Antigua & Barbuda

Specifications
DWAT: 11,800 mt
TEU: 957
Gear: 2 x 45 mt

Dimensions
LOA: 139.10 m
Beam: 22.60 m
Draft: 8.80 m 
GT: 9,996

JSP SLEIPNER

Description
Design: Zhejiang 950
Shipyard: Zhejiang Yangfan Shipping Group
Date built: September 24, 2006
Flag: Antigua & Barbuda

Specifications
DWAT: 11,800 mt
TEU: 957
Gear: 2 x 45 mt

Dimensions
LOA: 139.10 m
Beam: 22.60 m
Draft: 8.80 m 
GT: 9,996

JSP VENTO

Description
Design: Multipurpose Tweendeck Heavylift
Shipyard: Dongfang Shipbuilding, PRC
Date built: January 1, 2011
Flag: Antigua & Barbuda

Specifications
DWAT: 7,950 mt
TEU: 444
Gear: 2 x 80 mt combinable

Dimensions
LOA: 130.25 m
Beam: 16.50 m
Draft: 7.00 m 
GT: 7,138

JSP PORTO

Description
Design: Multipurpose Tweendeck Heavylift
Shipyard: Dongfang Shipbuilding, PRC
Date built: April 1, 2011
Flag: Antigua & Barbuda

Specifications
DWAT: 7,950 mt
TEU: 444
Gear: 2 x 80 mt combinable

Dimensions
LOA: 130.25 m
Beam: 16.50 m
Draft: 7.00 m 
GT: 7,138

JSP LOLLAND

Description
Design: Multipurpose Tweendeck Heavylift
Shipyard: Xinshun Shipyard Group Co Ltd - Yueqing ZJ
Date built: April 20, 2011
Flag: Liberia

Specifications
DWAT: 17,370 mt
TEU: 898
Gear: 2 x 150 mt, 1 x 80 mt

Dimensions
LOA: 144.00 m
Beam: 22.80 m
Draft: 9.85 m 
GT: 12,772

JSP GOTLAND

Description
Design: Multipurpose Tweendeck Heavylift
Shipyard: Xinshun Shipyard Group Co Ltd - Yueqing ZJ
Date built: December 31, 2009
Flag: Liberia

Specifications
DWAT: 17,370 mt
TEU: 898
Gear: 2 x 150 mt, 1 x 80 mt

Dimensions
LOA: 144.00 m
Beam: 22.80 m
Draft: 9.85 m 
GT: 12,772

 

 

The details are approximate and are not guaranteed. 


Our services

We are not just another ship management company, but we consider ourselves as a maritime-based investment and service provider. Our expertise is identifying attractive investment opportunities and developing  projects together with our partners. We operate our maritime investments directly and hands-on with our in-house superintendents, allowing our business partners to be very close to assets.


Technical &
Nautical
Management

With our team of experienced superintendents located at our headquarter in Jork, Germany, we provide sustainable technical and nautical maintenance with a hands-on approach to ensure non-stop service availability of our managed fleet at all times.

We also advise our clients to optimize the technical as well as nautical setup and offer certificate and license management.


Inspections, Supervisory & Budgeting

Relying on generations of experience and highly motivated team members with extensive expertise and complementary backgrounds, we are able to perform in-depth inspections and on that basis provide valuable advisory services to our customers.

We also create, analyze, benchmark, and optimize complete technical budgets, including lubricants, maintenance, stock, provisions, insurance, and other matters.


Chartering,
Operations &
Research

From our branch office in Lübeck, Germany, we provide all operational services for the worldwide deployment of merchant marine vessels. In doing so, we rely on our extensive network of charterers, agents, harbors, and other service providers worldwide.

Together with our affiliated charter broker, Arkon Allied Containers, we offer the full spectrum of maritime chartering business and market research services.


Projecting, Newbuilding & Conversions

With our family business dating back to the 1870's, we can draw on a long history of unique experience for planning, designing, projecting, engineering, supervision and operation of newbuilds, and conversions.

Our traditional roots notwithstanding, we are always open to discuss new ideas and approaches to improve shipping and to venture into innovative projects, striving to develop technical and marine standards.


Investment Management & Reporting

Shipping is a worldwide, established investment market with attractive and sustainable returns. For our investment partners we provide hands-on maintenance services and transparent opex benchmarks. All of our business partners are invited to visit our vessels at any time. Of course, we are also able to develop portfolio and/or customized investment structures.

All of our business partners receive quarterly reports on the  financial as well as technical development of their investments, along with detailed benchmarks.

Our History


The Best Foundation for Innovation are Strong and Expertised Partners.

At Jebsen Shipping Partners we combine generations of tradition with modern innovative thinking

MF Jebsen Group


MF Jebsen Group was founded in 2002 based on a reorganization of the Jebsen family-owned companies and benefits from a long history in Asia since Jacob Jebsen and Heinrich Jessen originally started their trading business in Hong Kong back in 1895.

The principal entity of the group is MF Jebsen International Limited, a holding company headquartered in Hong Kong. The Executive Chairman, Markus F. Jebsen, is a direct descendant of the Jebsen family, which captained vessels plying the trade routes between Europe and Asia during the 18th and 19th centuries.The group invests in dynamic management teams and businesses with long-term growth potential. We set the highest ethical standards for individual behavior and corporate actions for our investments. Among other services, MF Jebsen Group's current business and investment portfolio includes freight forwarding services, insurance brokerage services, shipping investments, travel services, and venture capital.

Kahrs Bereederung


Carrying on 145 years of family tradition, fourth-generation Captain Jan Kahrs is now at the helm of Kahrs Bereederung.

With his shipping company of the same name he currently manages his privately owned vessel, a B170 containervessel. Thanks to experience in ultra-modern feeder vessels, a well-trained crew, and excellent charterer references, the company is a globally established player in the maritime industry.

Lubeca Marine


The shipping company's origins are 'ship management', beginning in 1988 with the founding of Lubeca Marine Management (HK) Ltd. in Hong Kong by Captain Klaus S. Boehe, his partner Steven Cheung, and a shipping company from Lübeck. The company purchased its first ship in 1995 - a tweendecker with derricks and a deadweight tonnage of 15,000 tdw. Additional second-hand vessels were acquired in the following years, in which the company concentrated on geared tweendeckers of up to 5,000 tdw. Lubeca has managed the entire nautical/technical support of all its maritime vessels since 2000. In addition, all crew staffing of ships is carried out in-house.

The Lubeca fleet consists of multi-purpose freighters, which have been put into service all over the world. Under the leadership of Jan-Peter Boehe and Max Gottwald, the shipping company currently manages an active fleet of seven ships.

Becker Ship-
Management


The Becker family has been in the shipping business for more than 115 years and has evolved into a powerful and professional shipping company. Now in its third and fourth generation, Captain Bernd Becker, engineer Arnd Becker, and technicalexpert Jan-Jacob Becker currently chart the company's course.

Currently, the company has two vessels under management. Since 1967, the shipping company Becker has gained experience in the design, construction, and operation of container ships. The last five vessels were newbuilds and optimized for all standard container dimensions, in particular for transporting 45-foot containers.

Contact


If you would like to discuss any projects or ideas or have any other questions, please feel free to contact us anytime.

Jebsen Shipping Partners
Management GmbH & Co. KG
Königreicher Str. 114a
21635 Jork/Germany

Phone: +49 4162 90 98 0
Fax: +49 4162 90 98 13
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