More than 125 years experience in Europe and Africa

OPDR is the abbreviation for Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei and represents customized transport solutions at the highest level of reliability and quality.
As a modern company with a longstanding tradition we are your logistics partner for Europe and Africa.

For more than 125 years we have transported your cargo across Europe as well as to and from Africa.  We have specialized in offering complete logistics solutions on determined routes between North Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal, the Canary Islands and Madeira as well as Northern and Western Africa. Our experienced team will give you professional advice and submit an individual solution for you. Our qualified and highly motivated employees will develop transport solutions for nearly any kind of goods. Whether it be fresh fruit and vegetables or chemicals, machines, textiles or construction materials or even automotive parts. To this end, we have our own container fleet of more than 7,000 containers of different types (Pallet Wide, Open Top, Reefer and Flat Rack) at our disposal. We guarantee a high level of reliability and quality and provide an efficient agency network in more than 20 European as well as Northern and Western African countries. OPDR is certified according to ISO 9001:2008 and their vessels and containers are certified according to ISM- and ISPS.

OPDR owns three daughter companies:
OPDR CANARIAS, S.A., Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
OPDR GERMANY GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
OPDR NETHERLANDS, B.V., Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The company belongs to the SCHULTE GROUP.