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IsherHoldings
A log carrier loaded with round timber, riding at anchor
Specialist chartering

Timber,movedby sea.

Specialist log and timber chartering out of Singapore, across every log-exporting coast.

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01 · Overview

N 01°17.2′  E 103°50.9′

A company builtfor one cargo.

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Our approach

First in the trade to load timber into conventional bulk carriers, rather than wait for purpose-built log tonnage. A wider pool of ships means a shorter wait for the shipper, and a laycan that answers to the forest rather than to the fleet list.

A loaded log carrier standing out through a crowded anchorage
Cargo

Round logs · Sawn timber

2019Incorporated in Singapore
25+Years of shipping leadership
4Continents of load origin
1Cargo we specialise in

02 · Expertise

Four disciplines.One cargo.

We keep the list short on purpose. Everything here is work we do ourselves, on our own fixtures, and can answer for at three in the morning.

03 · Global reach

Every coast thatexports a log.

Loading in Southeast Asia, Oceania, South America and West Africa. Discharging into the Indian subcontinent and China. Drag the globe.

  • Lyttelton → Kandla
  • Tauranga → Nantong
  • Sandakan → Tuticorin
  • Bintulu → Kandla
  • Paramaribo → Nantong
  • Lae → Nantong
  • Douala → Kandla
Load portDischargeRegistered office

04 · Operations

From the slingto the sea passage.

Photographs from our own fixtures. Nothing here is a stock library ship.

A parcel comes off the road trailer and onto the crane runner at the load berth.
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Sling to the hatch

A parcel comes off the road trailer and onto the crane runner at the load berth.

A tracked grab works the parcel flat before the next tier is landed.
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Hold 3, grab excavator

A tracked grab works the parcel flat before the next tier is landed.

Butt ends dressed to the coaming so the tier above sits level across the hold.
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Hold 3, tier build-up

Butt ends dressed to the coaming so the tier above sits level across the hold.

Final tier in hold 5, tagged and tallied, ready for the hatch cover to come over.
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Hold 5, stow complete

Final tier in hold 5, tagged and tallied, ready for the hatch cover to come over.

Loading continues through the night. Forest cargo does not wait for daylight.
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Alongside at dusk

Loading continues through the night. Forest cargo does not wait for daylight.

Every log carries its own tag. The tally at the rail has to match the tally ashore.
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Marked parcels

Every log carries its own tag. The tally at the rail has to match the tally ashore.

Trailers staged to the crane cycle, so the hook never waits on the shore.
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Quayside sequence

Trailers staged to the crane cycle, so the hook never waits on the shore.

Deck cargo lashed inside stanchions, within the stability and visibility limits.
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Deck stow, secured

Deck cargo lashed inside stanchions, within the stability and visibility limits.

Logs laid fore and aft, voids filled, nothing left free to shift at sea.
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Hold 5, working tier

Logs laid fore and aft, voids filled, nothing left free to shift at sea.

Down to her marks with deck cargo secured, standing out through the anchorage.
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Loaded and away

Down to her marks with deck cargo secured, standing out through the anchorage.

05 · Leadership

Led from the engine roomand the bridge.

A chief engineer who has run ship-owning businesses, and a master mariner who has spent a career on safety and vetting. Between them, most of a lifetime at sea.

Harvinder Pal Singh, Managing Director
Managing Director

Harvinder Pal Singh

Founded Isher Holdings to prove that timber does not need a specialised ship.

Harvinder went to sea in 1992 and came ashore as a certified Chief Engineer, having sailed bulk carriers, self-unloaders, gantry ships, car carriers and gas carriers.

Ashore he ran technical operations, then commercial and finally the whole business, as Technical Director, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive of a Hong Kong ship-owning company, where he built the timber desk into a major charterer of logs from Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Africa and the Americas.

He founded Isher Holdings to carry that trade under its own flag, and was first in the market to load logs into conventional bulk carriers rather than wait for purpose-built log tonnage.

  • Certified Marine Chief Engineer, MCA UK
  • B.E. Mechanical Engineering
  • Institute of Marine Engineers
  • Institute of Engineers, India

1992 to 2008 at sea

Capt. Rajinder Singh Rattu, Director
Director

Capt. Rajinder Singh Rattu

Came ashore from command, and has spent the years since on safety and vetting.

Rajinder sailed as Chief Officer from 1999 and took command in 2004. He came ashore as a Marine Manager and onboard trainer, sailing with vessels to run internal audits and prepare crews for inspection.

As HSSE Manager he carried the safety and vetting load for a fleet of more than forty vessels, running incident investigation and clearing ships with the oil majors. He then headed crewing for an operator with over 1,500 seafarers, owning strategy, compliance and the relationships with unions and regulators.

He now advises on SIRE 2.0 readiness, gap analysis and management-system review, and brings that discipline to every Isher fixture.

  • Master Mariner, Certificate of Competency
  • ISM, ISPS and MLC Internal Auditor
  • TapRooT lead investigator
  • GMDSS, United Kingdom

In command from 2004

06 · Contact

Send us the cargoand the laycan.

Tell us the cargo, the ports and the window. We will come back with tonnage and terms.

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