Cruise Operations
Fleet-wide operations, turnaround and onboard excellence.
We help organizations recover schedules, increase productivity, and reduce costs.
About
Lean Maritime is a management consultancy specialised in the maritime industry. We help cruise lines, shipyards, offshore and naval companies reduce delays, improve productivity and optimise cost structures.
Our approach is practical and results-driven. We work alongside your teams, from the operations floor to the boardroom. Every project delivers measurable results.
Insights
Case studies, methods and practical experience from our projects.
- 5 min
A classic drydock plan shows dependencies. It does not show where crews collide, when material is required or which inspection blocks the next job. A takt plan sets one clock for everyone, and deviations show up within the shift instead of in week three.
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- 5 min
The CDC Vessel Sanitation Program sets out 1,596 separate requirements across two documents. On board, the only question that matters is which of them apply to this space, in this phase, today. We built a free app that answers it.
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- 6 min
On a cruise newbuild the yard, the contractor and the inspection team each keep their own list. The status travels from the ship to one system, then to the next, losing a day and some accuracy at every step. Sightyard is our answer to that.
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Services
Seven disciplines that work in isolation or as an integrated transformation programme.
Performance that holds after we leave.
Not every gap is a project. Fleet operations, turnaround, hotel and technical departments lose performance through hundreds of small frictions that no single initiative removes. We run structured improvement programmes with your own teams: measure the baseline, take out the friction, and leave behind the routines that hold the gains.
When the plan breaks, we bring it back.
Maritime mega-projects fail in predictable patterns. We diagnose the real root causes - engineering instability, coordination gaps, material delays - and build a recovery plan your teams can actually execute. Applicable to drydock slippages, newbuild delays and naval programmes.
Integrated schedules that hold up in execution.
We plan complex maritime projects from initial concept through execution - takt-based, cross-functional and tool-agnostic. Every schedule starts from how the work actually flows, not from what the software can draw.
Design packages reach production on time, complete, correct.
We optimise the internal processes of shipyards and large manufacturing organisations. The bottleneck is rarely the work itself - it's the handovers between engineering, procurement and production. We rebuild those interfaces.
The right material, in the right place, at the right time.
Maritime projects live and die on material flow. Long-lead items, supplier dependencies, warehouse complexity and cross-contractor coordination - we turn supply-chain chaos into a controllable system.
Governance that scales from one project to ten.
Higher-level steering of drydock series, frigate programmes and multi-project environments. Where single-project management stops working, programme management begins - cross-project resources, fleet-level reporting, lessons learned that actually transfer.
Custom applications and data infrastructure, built in days not months.
We build tailored dashboards, data integrations and reporting applications for our projects directly on site. Our approach differs from classical consulting: we don't just design, we implement. Typically a working system is live within days, not months.
Industries
Fleet-wide operations, turnaround and onboard excellence.
Maintenance, refit and conversion windows under time pressure.
New-build programmes from concept and design through construction to commissioning.
Frigate programmes, combat systems integration, classified workflows.
Offshore installation, conversion and integration projects.
Technical management, crewing and fleet-level operations.
Client Results
Figures are averages. Every project is measured against a baseline agreed before it starts.
Award
Awarded on the basis of a structured client survey, not a marketing submission. Clients are asked about professionalism, results and the working relationship itself.
Top Consultant 2025
Excellence in consulting, rated by clients.
Awarded to Lean Group by compamedia together with the Scientific Society for Management and Consulting. Lean Maritime is part of the Lean Group family.
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A selection of the organisations we have supported across cruise operations, shipbuilding, naval programmes and ship management.
Career
We are always looking for experienced consultants with a background in cruise operations, shipbuilding, engineering or operations management. If you want to work on some of the most complex industrial projects in the world, get in touch.
info@lean-maritime.com
Contact
Tell us about your project. We respond within one business day.
France
Paris
c/o Lean Group, Tour Gan, 16 Pl. de l'IrisUnited States
Miami
1688 Meridian Ave, Suite 600 and 700