In an increasingly competitive market, the R.S. Platou dry cargo department has chosen to focus strongly upon servicing close customers, whether they be owners, charterers or operators. Specifically, this means we are concentrating our services towards the forest products industry world-wide, together with the fertiliser and cement industries world-wide. Additionally we serve R.S. Platou's long-term shipowner clients in the competitive spot market world-wide.

We firmly believe that the ocean transportation industry is in need of good chartering and operatioal expertise. Our dry cargo department, in close cooperation with our economic research department, has a good combination of long experience and youthful energy, well positioned to provide reliable service for a variety of clients.

In order to maintain the best quality and secure the highest ethical standards to our clients, the dry cargo department is fully certified by Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and in compliance with the ISO 9001:2000 Standard.