SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED
Silver Fern Shipping Limited is a New Zealand coastal shipping company engaged in the seaborne carriage and distribution of refined petroleum products around the New Zealand coast. It was incorporated in New Zealand on 15 September 1994 as a company limited by shares, carries company number 628372 and NZBN 9429038693700, and is recorded on the New Zealand Companies Register with the status Registered.
The company operates product and bunker tankers in the domestic coastal fuel trade, carrying petrol, diesel, jet fuel and marine bunker fuel between New Zealand ports and supplying bunkers to vessels calling there. Its own published fleet list identifies three tankers: Rangitata (IMO 9340740, built 2007, approximately 2,387 deadweight tonnes, New Zealand flag), Korimako (IMO 9557161, built 2012, approximately 1,422 deadweight tonnes, New Zealand flag) and Kokako (IMO 9662655, built 2013, approximately 6,126 deadweight tonnes, Singapore flag), each classed with DNV. The company states that it carries and distributes approximately 65 per cent of New Zealand’s oil products; that figure is company-stated and is not taken from a regulatory filing or audited return.
Customers are the fuel importers, wholesalers and marketers serving the New Zealand market, together with bunker buyers at New Zealand ports. Individual contracts and counterparties are not publicly disclosed. Shipping operations and New Zealand-flagged tonnage are regulated by Maritime New Zealand under the Maritime Transport Act 1994 and associated maritime rules.
Silver Fern Shipping Limited is a private company and is not listed on any securities exchange, so no share price, market capitalisation or exchange filings exist for it. The registered office and address for service on the New Zealand register is 5a Craft Place, Middleton, Christchurch 8024 — a Christchurch address that supersedes the Wellington address held in older datasets. The register record was last updated on 23 July 2026. New Zealand does not require most private companies of this kind to file publicly available financial statements, and no filed accounts were identified.
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Shareholders
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Shareholders of Silver Fern Shipping Limited
New Zealand publishes company shareholdings openly, and the New Zealand Companies Register records a single shareholder for Silver Fern Shipping Limited: ASP Ships Pte Ltd, of 152 Beach Road, #05-01 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, holding 100 shares, being 100 per cent of the allocated share capital. The register record was last updated on 23 July 2026.
The underlying dataset behind this page named the holder as “ASP Ship Management Singapore Pte Ltd”. The register shows the holder as ASP Ships Pte Ltd; the register name has been used here.
The dataset also placed Silver Fern Shipping Limited at the top of its corporate tree. That is correct only within New Zealand: the register confirms the company is itself wholly owned from Singapore, so it is the top of the New Zealand sub-group and the holding company for the group’s New Zealand subsidiaries, but it is not the ultimate parent.
Ultimate beneficial ownership
No ultimate beneficial owner can be established from public sources. The sole shareholder is a corporate entity, and a corporate shareholder is not itself a beneficial owner. The ownership chain runs from New Zealand into Singapore at ASP Ships Pte Ltd, and Singapore’s register of registrable controllers is not open to the public, so the chain stops being publicly traceable at that point. No effective percentage interest can be calculated beyond the immediate 100 per cent holding, and no natural person is identified on any public record reviewed.
Data availability
New Zealand has no public register of beneficial ownership; the Companies Register publishes legal shareholders only. Establishing beneficial ownership therefore requires the company or its Singapore parent to provide a certified structure chart and registers of members and controllers. Shareholding on the register is stated by allocation of shares and does not disclose share classes, voting arrangements or shareholder agreements, which may affect control independently of the percentages shown.
| Shareholder | Type | Holding | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASP Ship Management Singapore Pte Ltd | 100% | New Zealand Companies Office |
Officers
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Directors and officers of Silver Fern Shipping Limited
The New Zealand Companies Register records four directors in office as at the last update of 23 July 2026:
- Robert Alexander Bird — director, appointed 30 November 2007; residence recorded in Australia. Nationality not disclosed.
- David John Borcoski — director, appointed 30 November 2007; residence recorded in Australia. Nationality not disclosed.
- Vitalii Chaika — director, appointed 19 June 2026; residence recorded in Singapore. Nationality not disclosed.
- Andrew Neil MacLeod — director, appointed 19 June 2026; residence recorded in Singapore. Nationality not disclosed.
Residential addresses are published by the New Zealand register but are not reproduced here; only the country of residence is stated, because that is the element relevant to the residency test below. Nationality is not recorded by the register and has not been inferred.
Section 10 of the Companies Act 1993 requires a New Zealand company to have at least one director who lives in New Zealand, or who lives in an enforcement country and is also a director of a company registered in that country. Australia is the only prescribed enforcement country. No director on the register lives in New Zealand, so compliance depends on one of the two Australia-resident directors also holding an Australian directorship. That element cannot be confirmed from the New Zealand register and should be verified against Australian records or confirmed by the company as part of onboarding.
Recent officer changes
- 19 June 2026 — Vitalii Chaika appointed director.
- 19 June 2026 — Andrew Neil MacLeod appointed director.
- 30 November 2007 — Robert Alexander Bird and David John Borcoski appointed directors.
Data availability
The dataset behind this page contained no serving directors at all. It held only five resigned appointments — Paul Markides (2001 to 2002), Dean Huffman (2002 to 2003), Robert Frankland (2003 to 2004), Timothy Jose (2006) and Philip Igglesden (2004 to 2007) — the most recent of which ended in 2007. A New Zealand company cannot lawfully operate without at least one director, so that record was incomplete rather than indicative of a dormant or directorless entity. It has been corrected against the New Zealand Companies Register, which shows the four serving directors listed above. Due-diligence users relying on cached or third-party officer data for this company should treat it as historical only.
New Zealand does not appoint or publish company secretaries, and the register does not record senior management below board level. Directors’ dates of birth are not published.
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with New Zealand Companies Office, including entries the profile above does not cover.
Group Structure
Group structure of Silver Fern Shipping Limited
Silver Fern Shipping Limited is the New Zealand holding company of the group’s New Zealand shipping entities and is itself wholly owned from Singapore. Each relationship below was verified on the New Zealand Companies Register by reading the shareholding of the named company; the other New Zealand entities are subsidiaries of Silver Fern Shipping Limited, not fellow subsidiaries of the wider ASP group.
| Entity | Country | Registration number | Relationship | Ownership | Information date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASP Ships Pte Ltd | Singapore | Not verified | Immediate parent | 100% of Silver Fern Shipping Limited | 23 July 2026 |
| Silver Fern Shipping Limited | New Zealand | 628372 (NZBN 9429038693700) | Subject company; New Zealand holding company | – | 23 July 2026 |
| Coastal Bulk Shipping Limited | New Zealand | 1162271 | Subsidiary | Approximately 99.88% (two allocations of 1,500,000 and 1,900 shares) | 2026 |
| ASP Ship Management NZ Limited | New Zealand | 7793098 | Subsidiary | 100% (100 shares) | 2026 |
| Mount Bunkering Limited | New Zealand | 8131036 | Subsidiary | 100% (10 shares) | 2026 |
| Kokako Shipping Limited | New Zealand | 8783550 | Subsidiary | 100% (10 shares) | 2026 |
Coastal Bulk Shipping Limited was incorporated on 15 October 2001, ASP Ship Management NZ Limited on 24 October 2019, Mount Bunkering Limited on 9 October 2020 and Kokako Shipping Limited on 19 June 2023; all four are recorded as Registered. The small residual minority in Coastal Bulk Shipping Limited is held outside the group and is not attributed here.
The boards of the subsidiaries overlap with that of Silver Fern Shipping Limited: David John Borcoski is a director of all four, and Vitalii Chaika and Andrew Neil MacLeod are directors of ASP Ship Management NZ Limited, Mount Bunkering Limited and Kokako Shipping Limited.
Data availability
The New Zealand Companies Register publishes shareholdings for each New Zealand company, so the New Zealand tier of the structure is fully verifiable. Above Silver Fern Shipping Limited the structure is not publicly verifiable: the ownership of ASP Ships Pte Ltd, the identity of the ultimate parent of the ASP group and any intermediate holding entities are not disclosed on any public register reviewed, and the company’s registration number in Singapore was not confirmed from an official source. No consolidated group financial statements are publicly filed in New Zealand, so no group-level figures are stated. No subsidiaries outside New Zealand were verified.
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with New Zealand Companies Office, including entries the profile above does not cover.
SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED do?
Silver Fern Shipping Limited is a New Zealand coastal shipping operator carrying and distributing refined petroleum products, including petrol, diesel, jet fuel and marine bunker fuel, between New Zealand ports. Its published fleet comprises the product and bunker tankers Rangitata, Korimako and Kokako.
Who owns SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED?
The New Zealand Companies Register records one shareholder, ASP Ships Pte Ltd of Singapore, holding 100 shares or 100 per cent, as at 23 July 2026. New Zealand has no public beneficial ownership register and the chain ceases to be publicly traceable in Singapore, so no ultimate beneficial owner can be confirmed.
Who is SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED's UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
No ultimate beneficial owner can be established from public sources. The sole shareholder is a corporate entity, and a corporate shareholder is not itself a beneficial owner. The ownership chain runs from New Zealand into Singapore at ASP Ships Pte Ltd, and Singapore’s register of registrable controllers is not open to the public, so the chain stops being publicly traceable at that point. No effective percentage interest can be calculated beyond the immediate 100 per cent holding, and no natural person is identified on any public record reviewed.
What is SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED's company registration number?
SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED's registration number is 9429038693700, filed with New Zealand Companies Office in New Zealand. Its current status on the register is active.
Is SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED still an active company?
SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED's status on New Zealand Companies Office is listed as active.
When was SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED incorporated?
SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED was incorporated on 15 September 1994, according to New Zealand Companies Office.
What is SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED's registered address?
The registered address on file for SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED is 45 Johnston Street, Wellington, New Zealand.
What legal structure is SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED registered as?
SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED is registered as a Private limited company (Ltd.) in New Zealand.
What is SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED's revenue?
New Zealand does not require most private companies of this type to file publicly available financial statements, and no filed accounts were identified for the company. The company states that it carries and distributes approximately 65 per cent of New Zealand oil products, which is a company-stated figure rather than a filed one.
Is SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED listed on a stock exchange?
The company is a private New Zealand company limited by shares and is not listed on any securities exchange. It has no traded securities, share price or market capitalisation.
Who are the officers/directors of SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED?
Four directors are in office on the register: Robert Alexander Bird and David John Borcoski, both appointed 30 November 2007 and resident in Australia, and Vitalii Chaika and Andrew Neil MacLeod, both appointed 19 June 2026 and resident in Singapore. The dataset behind this page held only five resigned directors, the most recent ending in 2007, and has been corrected against the register.
Does SILVER FERN SHIPPING LIMITED have a parent company or subsidiaries?
Silver Fern Shipping Limited is wholly owned by ASP Ships Pte Ltd of Singapore and is the New Zealand holding company for four registered New Zealand subsidiaries: Coastal Bulk Shipping Limited (approximately 99.88 per cent), ASP Ship Management NZ Limited, Mount Bunkering Limited and Kokako Shipping Limited (each 100 per cent). Ownership above the Singapore parent is not publicly verifiable.
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Where does this company information come from, and how current is it?
This record is sourced directly from New Zealand Companies Office and was last synced on 13 August 2026.