OCEA Today :
Key figures

• 500+ employees
• 6 sites
• 95% of the turnover at the export market
• More than 350 vessels delivered

OCEA, European leader in Aluminium Shipbuilding

Founded in 1987, in Les Sables d’Olonne, OCEA is one of the pioneers in aluminum shipbuilding and one of the major aluminum industrial manufacturers. From the very beginning, OCEA has an internal design capacity and focuses on the management of the maritime territory and operations inside the Exclusive Economic Zone area.  Specializing in the design, building and support of aluminium vessels, OCEA has rapidly expanded since its establishment.

Today, with more than 500 employees, four production sites in France, located along the French Atlantic Coast (Les Sables d’Olonne, Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle and Fontenay-le-Comte), one production site in the United Kingdom and one in the Philippines, OCEA delivers annually 15 to 20 vessels up to 120 m long, monohulls or catamarans, to address the following markets:

• Maritime Safety and Security designed for Coast Guard 
  and Navies missions and duties
• Maritime Transport and Mobility for urban waterborne mobility, tourist and transport activities
• Maritime Territory Administration for the management of the maritime territory and support to offshore economic activities 
• Transoceanic Yachts

To accompany our customers, and be “Your partner all the way”, OCEA developed a comprehensive service package offer including:

• Advice
• Complete Integrated logistic support for operating and maintaining your vessels: Documentation, training of crew and maintenance team, on-site technical assistance, support means supply chain
• Financing engineering
• Maintenance
• Transfer of technology

International standards compliance

ISO 9001 certification since 1990 on all sites

ISO 14001 since 2022

CSR scoring by independent international rating company since 1990 on all sites:

OCEA CSR: 77/100
Metalworking Industry average: 41/100