# RanMarine Technology

> RanMarine Technology is a Rotterdam-based marine robotics company that builds autonomous, electric aquadrones - led by its flagship WasteShark - to remove floating plastic, debris and biomass from ports, marinas, harbours and inland waterways while collecting water-quality data. Founded in South Africa in 2015 and re-incorporated in the Netherlands, the company sells hardware plus a connected data platform to ports, municipalities, water authorities, facilities firms and NGOs across several continents.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Rotterdam, Netherlands
- **Founders:** Richard Hardiman (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~34 employees
- **Products:** WasteShark (Classic), WasteShark+, WasteShark+ Pro, CyanoShark, MegaShark
- **Notable:** 32+ million liters of waste collected since 2016, 200+ WasteShark aquadrones deployed globally across four continents, 40,000+ km of waterways patrolled annually

## Products & services

- **WasteShark (Classic)** — Manually operated, accessible aquadrone for calm waters; an agile surface collector for floating waste.
- **WasteShark+** — Remote-controlled professional-grade vessel built for the power and speed marinas and ports require.
- **WasteShark+ Pro** — Autonomous, AI-ready, data-driven platform with LiDAR guidance, waypoint planning and onboard water-quality data collection.
- **CyanoShark** — Specialized aquadrone that targets and removes harmful blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) blooms through chemical-free filtration.
- **MegaShark** — Industrial-capacity, heavy-duty vessel for large-scale waste removal in ports, rivers and industrial waterways.
- **RanMarine Connect** — Unified cloud data platform for real-time water-quality monitoring and fleet management across deployed aquadrones.
- **SharkPod** — Docking station enabling aquadrones to autonomously return, offload waste and recharge.

## Achievements

- 32+ million liters of waste collected since 2016
- 200+ WasteShark aquadrones deployed globally across four continents
- 40,000+ km of waterways patrolled annually
- Removed 175,000+ pieces of plastic from Toronto Harbour in 2024
- Won EU Horizon 2020 SME Instrument grant funding for autonomous marine-litter drones
- Named to the Dutch MT/Sprout Challenger50 (2022)

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — RanMarine withdrew its planned ~$9M Nasdaq IPO (ticker RAN/RANWW).
- **2024-10** — PortsToronto program removed 600+ kg of debris and 100,000+ plastic pieces from Toronto Harbour between May and October 2024.
- **2024** — Filed and amended Form F-1 with the SEC ahead of an intended Nasdaq listing.

## Links

- Website: https://ranmarine.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ranmarine
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/RanMarineTech
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/RanMarineTechnology

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Last updated: 2026-07-18