For several generations now, the Berenberg banking house has been a trusted partner of owners and key decision-makers in the international shipping sector. Our prime emphases here are on our international private banking activities and on financing various aspects of shipping operations.

Berenberg's involvement with the shipping industry stretches all the way back to its co-founding of the HAPAG shipping company in Hamburg in 1847 and of North German Lloyd in Bremen in 1857.

As well as several renowned families from the international shipping sector, our clients include various ship owners, operators, agents and brokers, together with a number of P&I clubs.