BREMEN/HAMBURG: April 30, 2019. The Zeaborn Group is to acquire CPO Tankers, the management subsidiary of the Offen Group, subject to antitrust approval. Terms of the transaction have not been made public.

The Offen Group is one of the world’s largest charter owners of Post-Panamax container vessels with over 500,000 TEU under management. Company founder Claus-Peter Offen commented: “We, as Offen Group, want to grow our leading position as owner/manager of post-panamax container vessels through significant investments in this sector. Pure ship management services in tank or bulk are no longer in our focus.”

Founder Claus-Peter Offen commented: “We, as Offen Group, want to grow our leading position as owner/manager of post-panamax container vessels through significant investments in this sector. Pure ship management services in tank or bulk are no longer in our focus”.

Zeaborn Ship Management said the acquisition allows the company to expand its service portfolio to the wet market for oil and product tankers as an integrated and globally active shipping company.

“With CPO Tankers, a well-known and very reputable company joins our ship management activities. CPO Tankers, the management and the employees are a great fit for our organization, enabling us to expand our service portfolio with a first-class tanker management,” explained Ove Meyer and Jan- Hendrik Többe, managing partners of the Zeaborn Group.

Zeaborn was founded by Kurt Zech, Ove Meyer and Jan-Hendrik Többe in 2013 and its management company provides technical, crewing, operations and commercial serivces from locations in Germany, Singapore, Cyprus, the Philippines and Romania.

Pictured: Jan-Hendrik Többe and Over Meyer, Zeaborn Group managing partners.