Creating a safe working environment is the core ambition in challenging conditions – it can only be achieved by awareness of circumstances: our flexibility and pro-activity in the ship‘s operation is your warrant to success of ventures together. The Charterers of your vessels appreciate the benefit of working with a „boutique“ ship manager – it results in cost efficiency and better utilization. The use of planned maintenance systems helps us to avoid and foresee costly technical breakdowns and be reliable on planned budgets. And if things go wrong, we praise ourselves to be excellent trouble shooters!
We are trusted and reputed in our network crew at sea and suppliers because of our reliability. We see them as our „team workers“.
We are solely working on a fixed management fee basis and are to a maximum transparent about our purchasing activities (it means precisely: suppliers/service providers are requested to give their best net prices without (hidden) incentives, rebates or bonus). We measure our performance against projected budgets.
Only a company management with in depth technical knowledge can create a vision for employees and creates a motivating ever developing environment. The combination of such visions with the experience in Chartering and Sale & Purchase (S&P) as well as finance (reporting) brings ventures to success.
Today's majority of cargo volume is being transportet in Containers. A timely delivery is deeply integrated into a receivers supply chain. A modern and reliable fleet will be the key to the customers happiness. We are ready to be your partner and fit the missing mosaic stone into your picture.
Special cargo can only be transported with a dedicated team of experts. We are there for you to find solutions together with you which fit to requirements, ports and logistics. Experience is the excellence we count on and will share them with you. Compliance with regulations in the maritime industry demand tailormade solutions: some trade patterns demand ballast water treatment plants and exhaust gas filtration or treatment plants such as scrubbers. We will be in the position to guide you on requirements and find the right Chartering candidate.
The workhorses in the European short sea cargo traffic are the coasters and mini-bulkers ranging from any size 2.000 upto 8.000 deadweight tons. Especially here modern tonnage can bring a real benefit to cargo receivers since the fuel consumption per carried ton is undisputed the most economic mode of transport compared to truck and rail. As a part of your supply chain and with our experience of a fast despatch of vessels in ports, we will be your reliable partner to ship your cargo.
We manage very modern and flexible multipurpose tweendeckers. They are able to lift (even in ballast) upto 160 tons in tandem. The vessel is very eco friendly and has a low consumption, giving Charterers the possibility to utilise very CO2 friendly cargo space.
The 87 meters (wherefrom 79 meters fully box) long hold is one of the longest holds of a ship this size. The tweendeck can be put in two positions with hights below the tweendeck of 6 respectively 8 meters.
The E3 ice class enables the vessels to trade into almost all regions.
| length over all | 130,5 meters |
| beam | 16,5 meters |
| dwt | 7.800 mtons on 7 meters draft |
| GT/NT | 7138/2266 |
| TEU | 510 |
| Cranes | 2 x 80 tons SWL on 20 meters outreach |
On project basis we offer pre-purchase inspections for customers in need of a technical due diligence. We open eyes and praise ourseves as having a resonable and pragmatic approach. We give estimations on budgets and guide on basis our experience and expertise.
We support our condition surveys with innovative 360° tours - essentially you can walk through the vessels, like "Google Streetview".
…Alexander Schepers (born 1979) is the sole shareholder and director of the SMS Bereederung GmbH & Co. KG.
He graduated with a degree in Maritime Economics and Port Management at the University of Applied Science in Elsfleth (Germany) – “Diplom Wirtschaftsingenieur für Seeverkehrs- und Hafenwirtschaft (FH)”.
Since his youth he was involved in the operation of the fleet of Schepers Bereederung, Haren. In 2005 he was employed by H. Clarksons & Company in London as a shipbroker for container feeder vessels and was concentrating on one of the biggest container feeder operators on the Continent, fixing more than 300 contracts.
Being the fourth generation involved in shipping in his family he joined his father in 2009 and delivered into the existing fleet of six general cargo and container vessels an additional four complex multipurpose heavy lift tweendecker, built in China.
Wesuweer Hauptstraße 67
49733 Haren (Ems)
Telephone: +49 5932 733 20
Fax: +49 5932 733 221
E-Mail: info-sms@bereederung.com
