Home Our Fleet Contact Overview Sobelmar Antwerp N.V., Brasschaat, was founded in October 19, 1995 as an enterprise specializing in ship brokerage and cargo contracting. Since that time, Sobelmar Antwerp N.V. has been acknowledged as a contractor holder of shipments of 800.000 tons a year of apatite concentrate out of port of Murmansk to Western Europe and Baltic States. For fulfilling of the contract the Company had to charter the vessels on the open freight market. In 1997 the Company purchased her first vessel, m/v “Zarechensk”, IMO No. 9610611, with a DWT of 25.898 tons which gave an opportunity to cover a part of the contract by own vessel. Second vessel, m/v “Kovdor”, IMO No. 8118126, with a DWT 30.650 tons was bought in 1999, and two years later the Company added to her fleet a third vessel, m/v “Imandra”, IMO No. 8116336, with a DWT of 32.755 tons. In the very beginning, all three vessels were sailing under Malta flag. Since the Company and the fleet met all standards of Belgian Maritime Association in 2005, Sobelmar Shipping N.V. was founded as a pure shipping company under which m/v “Kovdor”, IMO No. 8118126, and m/v “Imandra”, IMO No. 8116336, were registered and reflagged under Belgium flag. Sobelmar Shipping N.V. is a 100% daughter company of Sobelmar Antwerp N.V. With a purpose to renovate the ageing fleet, in 2006, the Company initiated a newbuilding program having ordered 4 bulkers at Nanjing Dongze Shipyard, China, with delivery in the course of 2009-2010. First vessel, m/v “Brasschaat”, IMO No. 9459369, with a DWT 32.778 tons was delivered from the shipyard in April 2009 being followed by the sister ship, a new m/v “Zarechensk”, IMO No. 9459395, and another two sisters, m/v “Vyritsa”, IMO No. 9459371, and a new m/v “Kovdor”, IMO No. 9459383, with a DWT 35.290 tons each. First three vessels are sailing under Belgian flag while m/v “Kovdor”, IMO No. 9459383, hoists Marshall Island flag. All four vessels are classed with Bureau Veritas. In the course of 2009 the Company sold the old fleet of which the old m/v “Zarechensk”, IMO No. 6910611, for scrap and two other ones, the old m/v “Kovdor”, IMO No. 8118126, and m/v “Imandra”, IMO No. 8116336, as trading vessels. After having been successfully ISM certified in 2009 the Company took control over technical management. So, for the time being, the Company is almost vertically integrated doing full management except crewing which is performed by Messrs. INOK Karelia Ltd. , Petrozavodsk, Russia. Present time At the present moment, the company is continuing her normal operations in the sphere of international shipping by sea. The Company vessels are busy in carrying fertilizers, grain and grain products, sulphur, coal and other types of cargo. Sobelmar regularly schedules front haul voyages to ensure trouble-free delivery of fertilizers to Brazil, Argentina, Mexican Gulf via the ports of St. Petersburg and other Baltic ports by chartering the vessels with well known traders like Mekatrade AG, Ameropa AG, Bulktrade AG, BPC/URALKALI and others. Sobelmar vessels perform back haul voyages with grain and grain products being chartered out to such well known grain Charterers as Alfred Toepfer GmbH, Louis Dreyfus, Cargill International SA. From time to time vessels are busy with cargo of steel products for account of Messrs. Continental Lines, Antwerp. All Company vessels are P&I covered with GARD and Hull & Machinery with Allianz. Sobelmar Antwerp N.V. ©, 2015. Bredabaan 405, B-2930 Brasschaat, Belgium Tel. +32 3 650 15 00 Fax. +32 3 650 15 09