See how we became the leading ship and offshore supplier of marine provisions and stores through an ambitious growth and development strategy.
Wrist acquired Delaware Ship Supply in New Jersey, a maritime supplier with more than a century of industry experience. With this acquisition, Wrist further strengthens its commercial and operational presence along the U.S. East Coast corridor.
Wrist was acquired by J.F. Lehman & Company, accelerating growth, enhancing operational excellence and advancing digitalization and ESG initiatives.
Read newsWrist acquired Boa Praça General Ship Supplier, the Brazilian market leader in maritime supplies. With this acquisition, Wrist expands its commercial and operational footprint to a new continent.
Wrist acquired Komasco, a recognized stand-alone ship chandler in Busan, South Korea. With this acquisition, Wrist expands its global operational, commercial and procurement network to a new geography.
Read newsWrist expanded its footprint in China with a new branch in Qingdao – one of the world’s busiest ports and a key shipbuilding hub, strengthening its presence and service in Northern China.
Wrist acquired Centralam Panama, strengthening its position at a strategically important maritime hub.
Wrist founded and funded the independent startup Source2Sea, a digital marine procurement and supply marketplace.
Wrist opened new facilities in Valencia, thus serving all ports on the Spanish east coast, strengthening its reach and responsiveness to customer demands in the region.
Wrist acquired Van Hulle, strengthening its position in the ARA market even further.
Wrist acquired Klevenberg Shipping Center, enhancing efficiency and customer service in ARA region.
Wrist opened new facilities in Shanghai to strengthen its services in China. Located near the Wai Gao Qiao container port, the branch serves all major ports in Shanghai and shipyards in the Yangtze region.
Wrist opened new facilities in Hamburg, improving service offering in the region and enhancing delivery time as well as frequency significantly.
Wrist acquired Garrets International, one of the world’s leading marine caterers, handling provision supplies and budget control to over 1,000 ships worldwide. Garrets was combined with SeaStar Management to operate under the Garrets name.
Wrist acquired Southern Ship Supply, expanding its physical warehouse network in a strategic port along the U.S. East Coast.
Wrist acquired Penta Offshore and Marine in Singapore, a rapidly growing marine supply and service provider, bringing on board a highly experienced team with more than 100 years of combined industry expertise.
Wrist acquired Den Helder Stores, the leading offshore supplier located in the offshore center of the Netherlands. With this acquisition, Wrist is able to service customers in both offshore and shipping segments.
Wrist acquired North Sea Stores, Aberdeen's oldest stores supplier.
Wrist acquired Triton Marine Group Inc. on the U.S. West Coast.
Wrist established a sourcing office in Shenzhen with 100 sq. m. offices and 550 sq. m. warehouse, allowing the team to improve on logistics, quality assurance, consolidation, etc.
Wrist acquired Yamamoto Bros., a provider of undisclosed goods and services based on the U.S. West Coast.
Wrist acquired Saga Shipping A/S, an offshore supply and ship agency in Denmark. The acquisition added strong local expertise and a fleet of supply and crew vessels.
Wrist acquired Strachans Ltd., UK’s leading independent food distributor to the offshore market, moving towards expansion into the global offshore oil and gas industry.
Wrist acquired One Source North America (World Ship Supply, West Coast Ship Supply, East Coast Ship Supply and Karlo Corporation) – the largest ship supply organization in North America.
This acquisition has given a significant presence in the North American and Canadian markets.
SeaStar Management is a business unit within Wrist, specialized in the handling of consumable budgets and delivery of provisions and stores to ships all over the world.
Wrist acquired Spanish Huqui-7 (HQ7), strengthening its existing presence in the port.
Wrist acquired Norwegian Torkellsen.
Wrist acquired French E.A.F.M Sarl.
Wrist acquired Dutch Kooyman Shipchandlers.
Wrist was sold to the Nordic private equity fond Altor, meaning more financial power to support expansions across the globe.
Wrist founded Wrist Marine Logistics - the logistics branch of the organization.
Wrist established Wrist Malaysia as a greenfield operation, however activities was moved to Manila.
Wrist acquired Spanish Intership Algeciras.
Wrist acquired Danish Supply Corporation.
Wrist acquired Danish H.S. Hansen.
Wrist acquired American Lone Star Houston.
Wrist established Greenfield operations in the Far East region by setting up an office in Singapore.
Wrist acquired Dubai Barakat Shipchandlers.
Wrist opened a branch in Rotterdam, establishing local warehousing and office facilities to support customers in the region.
Wrist acquired Kaj Madsens Eftf.
Wrist acquired A. Chr. Berthelsen ApS.
Wrist acquired Svendborg Ship Supply, now serving custom-built and partly refrigerated lorries, making international orders all over continental Europe, Scandinavia and the UK an everyday event.
Wrist acquired Henry O. Pedersen Eftf.
Ove Wrist & Co. A/S completed its first ship stores deliveries outside Denmark, supplying vessels in the Kiel Canal and ports across Northern Europe.
Ove Wrist retired from the business, which was converted into a limited company under the name Ove Wrist & Co. Ltd.
At this point, the company employed seven people and supplied ships across all Danish ports.
Ove Wrist employed four people and moved into larger premises with room for a grocery shed, a tiny office and a small store room.
Ove Wrist started his own ship supply business from a small rented room and warehouse in the Port of Aalborg, where he supplied coasters coming to the ports of Aalborg and Nørresundby, including vessels from Finland and Sweden.