Wallenius Marine is a ship design and ship management company in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

. Headquartered in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, the company has additional offices in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

and employs some 800 people. The company was spun off from

Wallenius Lines Wallenius Lines is a privately owned Swedish shipping company. The company was founded in 1934 by Olof Wallenius. Wallenius Lines is an investor and active owner within the global shipping industry, specifically the international car and roll-on ...

in 2003 to focus on ship management and technical services, as well as newbuilding and design. Like its sister company, Wallenius Marine specializes in car carriers and RoRo ships. Since the 1990s, the company and its predecessor has designed and built 70 vessels. The ships are built in third-party shipyards in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

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and

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with site supervision by Wallenius Marine. Other business areas include ship elongation, where existing cargo vessels are stretched to extend their capacity. During the process, ships are cut in half, extended and put back together. The process typically takes a few months compared to a few years for designing and building a new ship from scratch. Wallenius Marine also provides marine IT and ship management, including monitoring, communication and fleet management systems. In recent years, the company's focus has increasingly shifted towards sustainable shipping. In addition to reducing the environmental impact of traditional cargo ships, the company is developing a wind-powered car carrier called

Oceanbird Oceanbird is a concept for wind-powered cargo vessels under development by Wallenius Marine. The concept aims to lower emissions by up to 90 percent and the design was developed in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Swedish ...

. The vessel is powered by large, wing-like sails and would become the tallest sailing ship in the world. It is designed to carry 7,000 cars.

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* {{Official website, https://www.walleniusmarine.com/ Shipbuilding companies of Sweden Companies based in Stockholm

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