Our story | James Fisher and Sons plc

James Fisher is a global supplier of trusted engineering services across the industries we serve, with an unrivalled ability to develop innovative solutions that meet the constantly developing needs of our customers operating in challenging environments.

As an innovative and fast-growing organisation, our highly skilled team and 175-year heritage enable us to deliver solutions to the most demanding operational and technical challenges faced by our customers around the world.

James Fisher has developed unparalleled operational expertise in harsh environments, delivering specialised solutions ranging from marine and subsea services, including diving and ROV, to specialist load monitoring, container weighing and nuclear decommissioning work.

Our shared purpose and valued behaviours are the key contributors to our success. By leveraging our global reach, deep operational understanding, breadth of capability and the enthusiasm and commitment of our staff, James Fisher has become a trusted partner of major corporations, government agencies and other valued customers around the world.

James Fisher Marine Services excels once again by delivering the first ever offshore oil exchange in Belgian waters.

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Our purpose and valued behaviours

James Fisher is united by its shared purpose and our valued behaviours which guide how we work with each other and our stakeholders.

We are a business that strives to successfully solve our customers’ complex and difficult problems in some of the harshest environments.

We do this by engaging, enabling and empowering our people to achieve, supported and guided by our values.

Find out more about how our shared purpose and valued behaviours drive our success

working in challenging, high-risk environments to solve complex problems.

Safety is our priority

We work in challenging, high-risk environments to solve complex problems.

Protecting our people, the people who work with us and those impacted by our activities, is vital. We want people to return safely to their homes, families, and friends every day.

Find out more about health, safety and wellbing at James Fisher

Energy has always been at the heart of James Fisher’s activities

Throughout its history, James Fisher has actively responded to, and helped advance shifts in energy systems. Beginning with its adoption of steam power over sail in the nineteenth century, it has successfully transitioned to and helped harness new forms of energy from coal, oil and gas, and nuclear, to renewables and liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Coal

During the 1880s James Fisher transitioned its fleet from sail to steam. The company was founded to service the need for efficient transportation of coal as well as iron ore, and it continued to support this energy stream throughout the 1960s and 1970s, facilitating the construction of coal-powered stations with heavy lift vessels.

R2S secures funding the OGTC to kickstart the development of its game-changing visual positioning system to enable offshore automation.

Oil and gas

Supporting the full life cycle from exploration through to production, transportation and decommissioning. James Fisher is a world leader in the provision of specialist products and services to the oil and gas industry. It transfers close to 600m barrels of oil at sea annually.

Nuclear

Providing innovative solutions from new build to end of life. Drawing on nearly 40 years’ experience, James Fisher supports the nuclear industry through the provision of specialist engineering and manufacturing services. From concept design to decommissioning, it overcomes complex challenges in uniquely hazardous environments.

James Fisher awarded contract to provide scheduled maintenance services at East Anglia ONE, to help ensure performance

Renewable energy

Investing in environmentally sustainable growth. Applying knowledge and expertise gained in other industries, together with the latest technologies, the company serves the fast-growing renewable energy space in support of meeting global net zero goals.

Fendercare Marine has conducted ship-to-ship (STS) transfers of liquified natural gas (LNG) for one of the global leading energy companies.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG)

Transitioning to low carbon energy sources and alternative fuels. Supporting customers in their journeys to alternative fuels, James Fisher is committed to expanding LNG STS services. Investments in specialised equipment and conducting complex LNG transfers begins our commitment to lower carbon shipping, along with investment in dual fuel vessels.