Facts & Figures

With the foundation of Bernhard Schulte Offshore in 2015, the Schulte Group established a dedicated company for its offshore activities in offshore wind and oil and gas.

The Schulte Group is a worldwide operating, family-owned, and Hamburg based shipping company with more than 135 years of experience. The Schulte Group’s services range from pure ship owning, over ship management and new-building supervision and port agency services to innovative IT solutions for the maritime industry.

The company owns about 90 vessels and has more than 600 vessels under management. More than 550 new building projects have been supported by the Schulte Group and 20,000 seafarers and onshore staff in over 30 locations ensure safe and efficient shipping operations.

As a result of optimised processes, a lean organisation, the purchasing power as one of the largest ship managers in the world, competitive and sustainable financing and vigilant risk management, Bernhard Schulte can offer to their client’s competitive charter rates coupled with high-quality ship management services.

The Schulte Group is setting new standards. With old values.

The Hamburg company develops customized logistics solutions for on- and offshore wind turbines. Buss Offshore Solutions is a subsidiary of the Buss Group, which was founded in 1920 and offers its international customers tailor-made port logistics solutions for on- and offshore projects. The team implements the projects on the company’s own or on external terminals with its own equipment or with third-party devices. Based on expertise gained from many different major offshore wind projects in the North and Baltic Seas, Buss supports customers with the design and implementation of logistics projects along the entire transport and installation chain.

In addition to port and logistics services, Buss Energy Group provides its customers a broad portfolio in the renewable energy service segment. The employees of the group’s service branches for wind turbine and rotor blade services have 15 years of experience in the wind industry. During this time more than 2,000 wind turbines have been built and serviced on land and at sea across Europe.

Buss provides installation, maintenance, and logistics services for wind turbines on land and at sea. In doing so, customers receive everything from one source: from transport and logistics planning to port handling, mechanical completion and maintenance of turbines and blades. The training and qualification model ensures very high safety and quality standards. All services are committed to high QHSE standards which are ensured by the group’s internal QHSE management team, which is also active as independent service provider for third party clients.

Ems Maritime Offshore GmbH (EMO) is a fully-owned subsidiary of the shipping company Aktien-Gesellschaft “EMS”, and was established in 2010 to expand the offshore activities of the AG “EMS” group.

The energy of the future will to a large extent be generated at sea. As pioneers providing services for this future-oriented sector, EMO has recognised the signs of the energy turnaround at an early stage. Its declared long-term objective is to offer and establish customer-tailored service solutions sustainably.

EMO operates its own fleet of modern service vessels under the German flag, which are adapted for use in the offshore wind farms of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. In addition to the standard activities of a certified shipping company, specialising in the particular requirements of offshore wind farms, EMO also provides the comprehensive services required in various service ports close to the wind farm clusters. This includes the provision of office, storage and field warehouse capacities as well as parking spaces and berths for service vessels. In the Netherlands, EMO operates the new Heliport and DronePort Eemshaven.

The extensive service package is rounded off by the Marine Coordination section which manages all logistics processes and maritime site surveillance by the in-house control centre VENTUSmarine.