Oldendorff Carriers is a family owned shipping company with headquarters in Lübeck.

Around 4,000[1] employees work for the company, including 210 at the company headquarters, nicknamed "The Dorff", and more than 100 in 17 branch offices in Copenhagen, Hamburg, London, Stamford, Singapore, Mumbai, Melbourne, Shanghai, Tokyo, Vancouver, Cape Town, Santiago, New Amsterdam, Trinidad, Hong Kong, Iskenderun, Dubai, Varna [4] The fleet employs well over 2,000 sailors.

[5] On 19 February 1921, 21-year-old Egon Oldendorff joined a small shipping company in Hamburg as a partner, where he trained for nine months.

[5] Increasingly the company has been buying its ships from Chinese yards,[9] which it has described as a good experience.

[13] The company planned to receive four new ships from Japan's Oshima Shipbuilding in March 2020.