The Hamburg-based shipping company Oskar Wehr is returning to the newbuilding market. Two mini bulkers have been ordered in China.
The shipping company has ordered the two freighters with a carrying capacity of 5,900 tdw from the Jiangsu Dajin Heavy Industry shipyard. The price was not disclosed. The new ships are scheduled for delivery from the second quarter of 2026.
“We want to further diversify the fleet and better spread the risk,” shipping company boss Thomas Wehr told HANSA. In future, the mini bulkers are to be deployed exclusively in the eurozone and thus in a market “for which we see fundamentally positive prospects,” said Wehr. The ships will be commercially managed by Hanseatic Shipbrokers.
Oskar Wehr focuses on Bulkers
The Oskar Wehr shipping company, which was founded in 1945 and is now in its third generation of family management, last ordered new ships at the end of 2007. In 2020, the company announced its withdrawal from container shipping and sold its entire fleet. “In future, the entire focus will be on bulkers,” shipping company boss Thomas Wehr told HANSA at the time.
Since then, the shipping company has concentrated on the bulker segment, focusing on Handysize and Supramax units. According to shipping company boss Thomas Wehr, ten ships are currently under management.
The company also set up a new KS structure in Norway four years ago, bringing in ships that were managed by Oskar Wehr and chartered by the joint venture One Bulk (with Bertling and Nordic Hamburg). Oskar Wehr holds a 33% stake in the new company Selmer Bulk.
