Shipbuilding
New-build programmes from concept to sea trials.
Est. 2010 · Worldwide
Management consulting for the maritime industry.
About
Lean Maritime is a management consultancy specialised in the maritime industry. We help shipyards, cruise lines, 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.
Services
Seven disciplines that work in isolation or as an integrated transformation programme.
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.
Live visibility for the people who have to decide.
Ongoing steering during project execution. Cost, schedule, quality and risk integrated into a single picture, with reporting that reaches leadership fast enough to actually act. No monthly PDFs, no hidden variance.
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
New-build programmes from concept to sea trials.
Maintenance, refit and conversion windows under time pressure.
Fleet-wide operations, turnaround and onboard excellence.
Frigate programmes, combat systems integration, classified workflows.
Offshore installation, conversion and integration projects.
Technical management, crewing and fleet-level operations.
Client Results
Averaged across recent engagements. Every project is measured against a pre-agreed baseline.
Award
A selection of client feedback — anonymised at clients’ request. The same voices that earned Lean Group the Top Consultant 2025 seal.
Lean Maritime recovered a build that was 14 months behind. Six months later we were hitting our milestones again. Their recovery plan was blunt, practical and actually implementable — not the usual slideware.
The difference is that they are in the yard, not in a conference room. Our block assembly was redesigned with the people doing the work, not for them.
Turnaround time down 22%. Guest satisfaction up. In eight weeks.
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.
Read the announcementTrusted by
A selection of the organisations we have supported across shipbuilding, cruise operations, naval programmes and ship management.
Insights
Case studies, methods and practical experience from our projects.
· 6 min
Three NATO allies, three flagship frigate programmes, the same pattern of delays and cost overruns. The root causes are consistent — and they are solvable with operational discipline.
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· 7 min
Every 7 to 10 days, a cruise ship must disembark 5,000 guests, deep-clean 2,500 cabins, load 300,000 pounds of provisions, and welcome 5,000 new guests. All in 10 hours. Here is how lean methods turn organised chaos into a precision operation.
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· 9 min
A cruise ship produces 15,000 meals a day, turns over 2,500 cabins weekly, and manages thousands of technical assets at sea. Lean methods bring flow, standardisation and continuous improvement to every department, from the galley to the boardroom.
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We are always looking for experienced consultants with a background in 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