1. Ravensdown Shipping Services
Pty Ltd Melbourne

2. Contact
“The Shed”, 144 Ferrars street, South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Tel

3. Ravensdown Limited Created by farmers in 1977 in Dunedin
focusing on fertiliser manufacture and
sales in the south island
1997 expand into NZ north island
Three manufacturing plants
Lime quarries, store networks, ground
& air spreading, on-farm silo storage

4. Fertiliser Sales

5. Revenue

6. Total Equity

7. Superphosphate Plants
Awatoto
Hornby
Ravensbourne

8. Store Network

9. Aero Work

10. Ground Spreading Spreading Northland (4) Spreading Waikato (1)
Spreading FBT (10)
Spreading Sandford (12)
Rae Brothers
(3)
Rural Bulk Spreading (6)
Spreading Canterbury (9)
North Otago Ground Spreading (2)
Spreading Southland (3)
Advanced Spreading (5)

11. RSS History and Background
Core group worked together for up to four decades.
For thirty five years we have been involved with Ravensdown.
Post GFC a new shipping strategy is devised.
RSS incorporated February, 2011

12. RSS Primary Trades
Primary trade in-house fertiliser cargoes to New Zealand sourced from worldwide origins, as well as other import cargoes to New Zealand such as coal & grains, followed typically by logs, scrap, or coal from New Zealand and various export commodities from Australia, grain, scrap, steel,concentrates, alumina, salt, coal, iron ore, sugar, gypsum etc..

13. Cargoes carried from 2011 – 2018

14. RSS Annual Turnovers

15. Bunker Suppliers/Brokers
Norwegian Oil Trading AS
Cockett Marine Oil
Interg8 Fuels
We have credit facilities with all major bunker suppliers.

16. P and I Club
Full entry with Gard

17. Safeguarding the Product and the Client. Unpriced added value.
Client (RL) is paramount.
Cheapest not always the best.
Vessel/cargo – supply safety.
Vessel cleanliness.
Operational commercial and practical sharing and application of knowledge.
Top class, fuel efficient tonnage is vital.

18. RSS Growth and Future
Our core/longer term fleet is growing, with currently 8 on charter.
Continually seeking best quality, longer term tonnage.
Third party business growth.
Bunker hedges and freight futures enabling faster, longer term pricing.
Through solid regular performance, extending our NZ log activities to other log origins.