Press Release

Summary

• Stolt Tankers will use Tilla’s platform to manage the travel required for its crew changes across its entire owned fleet.
• The decision follows two joint pilot projects.
• Tilla’s platform helps crewing teams plan and manage crew change travel more efficiently and with full cost transparency.

Announcement

Stolt Tankers, which owns a fleet of more than 100 chemical parcel tankers, will use Tilla's software platform to manage the travel required for its crew changes.

Stolt Tankers is a leading operator of deep-sea and regional chemical tankers. The company sails global routes and sources seafarers from many countries, which creates a high degree of complexity for crew changes between ships and ports. To reduce this complexity and optimize crew change processes, Stolt Tankers was looking for a suitable digital solution. 

Tilla provides such a solution: the Berlin-based company offers a digital platform for crew change management. The platform brings together key data sources such as ship schedules, crewing data, port agency information and real-time flight data in a single application. This allows crewing teams to plan and manage crew changes more efficiently, automate flight bookings, and keep all parties involved informed in real time. Stolt Tankers will use the platform to plan and manage the travel required for crew changes.

To test the performance of Tilla’s platform, Stolt Tankers carried out two pilot projects to thoroughly evaluate it. After the comprehensive pilot phase and extensive due diligence in a highly complex operational environment, the company was able to achieve significant improvements. For example, automating administrative tasks such as flight planning and booking enables substantial time savings for crewing teams. This makes crew changes more efficient and delivers full cost transparency across crew change operations.

“We are very pleased to continue the strong partnership with Stolt Tankers. They have long been impressive in the field of digitalization, and we are delighted to support their crewing teams by helping streamline the travel involved in crew changes.”

- Niklas Weidmann, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Tilla.

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Tilla is currently used by many well-known customers, including Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG, Exmar, Essberger, Wilson and Stödig Ship Management. The platform facilitates close to 100,000 bookings per year. In 2025, the company was also backed by industry leaders Motion Ventures and Exmar in a funding round. 

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‍About Tilla

Tilla was founded in Berlin in 2021 to optimize and improve the efficiency of Crew Change Management in the shipping industry. Tilla has developed a user-friendly and powerful platform to drive optimal crew change decisions and automate workflows, with real-time data and integrations. Tilla lowers crew change costs and improves crewing team productivity while giving companies greater control over the complete crew change process, from planning to insights.

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About Stolt Tankers

Stolt Tankers operates a fleet of over 160 chemical tankers, providing safe, reliable, and high-quality global transportation services for bulk liquid chemicals, edible oils, acids, and clean petroleum products. Its deep-sea fleet is seamlessly integrated with Stolt Tankers’ regional fleets in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, and inland barging services in Europe and the Gulf Coast of the US.  Stolt Tankers is a division of Stolt-Nielsen Limited (SNL), a long-term investor and manager of businesses focused on opportunities in logistics, distribution, and aquaculture. The Stolt-Nielsen portfolio consists of its three global bulk liquid and chemicals logistics businesses – Stolt Tankers, Stolthaven Terminals and Stolt Tank Containers – Stolt Sea Farm and various investments. Stolt-Nielsen Limited is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (Oslo Børs: SNI).  www.stolt-nielsen.com/our-businesses/stolt-tankers

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