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John T. Essberger
Chemical Tankers

Essberger Tankers is a leading operator of chemical tankers, which mainly trade in Europe. We are one of the pioneers of purpose-built parcel tankers.

Today’s fleet consists of 37 highly sophisticated chemical tankers with 36 of them having stainless steel cargo tanks and the majority of the fleet having the highest Ice class. These features enable us to be a safe and reliable partner to our customers all year round.

Essberger Tankers is proud of its unique history, a history that has resulted in a state of the art fleet manned and operated by highly committed and experienced personnel, known and trusted throughout Europe by shippers of bulk liquids .

We built our business on long term partnerships and the future of the company is underpinned by continuous investment in the business, where we aim to combine tradition with modernity.

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OUR trading areas
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NW-EUROPE
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BALTIC
BACK & FORTH
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EUROPE — WEST & CENTRAL MED

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Our Divisions

Chemical Tankers

Essberger Tankers is a leading operator of 37 chemical tankers within the following main trade areas:

→  Europe-Baltic
→  North Sea
→  Europe-Mediterranean

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Ship Management

First Class high quality Ship Management requires experience and a professional staff of committed personnel. John T. Essberger is aiming at long term relationships with our business partners.
We “go the extra mile” to get the best continuous performance.

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Dry Cargo

Dry Cargo, the tramp division of the group, is a shipowner in its own right and is actively working as a commercial Ship Manager for third party clients with a fleet of modern bulk carriers, sophisticated multi-purpose tonnage and container vessels as well as other purpose-built ships such as cement tankers.

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Company Information:

Highest Standards

Throughout every part of our operation we put Safety and Environmental care on the top of our agenda. There are no commercial or other circumstances which will make us compromise our approach to either.

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Crewing

The Crewing department, which is based in Hamburg, together with our two Manning Offices in Poland and the Philippines as well as our network of trusted Manning Agencies, are responsible for all crewing activities.

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JTE's History

John T. Essberger, a Naval Commander, founded his own ship owning company in Hamburg in 1924. Since that time, the company has been actively involved in many different aspects of shipping.

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Our modern Chemical Tanker Fleet

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Essberger Tankers is proud of its unique history, a history that has resulted in a state of the art fleet manned and operated by highly committed and experienced personnel, known and trusted by shippers of bulk liquids in Europe.

Upload: 20 February
Dealing with Ice 1:30"

"Theodor Essberger" in the Gulf of Finland

Upload: 10 March
Sailing at night 2:05"

"Agnes Essberger" Gulf of Bothnia in February

Upload: 10 March
Mooring & Unmooring 1:25"

"Gisela Essberger" mooring in ice

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