RF Forschungsschiffahrt GmbH, Bremen - Wir bieten mehr!

The RF Forschungsschifffahrt was founded in 1975. Thus, the initial activities with our partner shipping company - the “MS Valdivia” - in the field of research vessel navigation have been extended and moved into the light of focus. RF’s field of activity lies particularly in complementary services for scientific marine research and is completed by its consulting services in the field of research vessel navigation and special shipping.

Our field of activity

Operation and handling of research vessels and other devices necessary for scientific marine research
Cooperation with scientific institutes in the field of staff training and provision of staff for research vessels
Launch and handling of measuring systems at sea
Coordination of application-oriented research trips, performance of measuring programmes worldwide - including polar regions
Consulting services for planning, design and building supervision of new vessels and ship conversions, outfitting of vessels with scientific systems
Consulting services for special projects that involve offshore technology
Design, delivery and maintenance of entire measuring data recording systems
Calculations of profitability for the winding-up of operations

Quality management and environmental protection

RF operates research vessel.

OPur manual is specifically designed for all requirements of research vessel regarding accident prevention, customers satisfaction and environmental proction.

Certified and audited regularly by Germansicher Lloyd, we hold all valid certificates according to the standards of ISM, ISPS, ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004.