Key Lödige Personnel:

Justin has spent the majority of his life on boats on Sydney Harbour, owned several boats and has deep contacts within the marine industry in Australia. Justin has had over 6 years experience in developing dry boat storage facilities and is the founder of Sydney Boathouse. www.sydneyboathouse.com.au  The Sydney Boathouse team is part way through building Australia’s largest dry boat storage facility which holds 670 boats up to 12m in length and boasts over 4000m² of waterfront retail and commercial space.

Justin has researched dry boat storage facilities, marinas and slipways in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Charleston, Beaufort, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Arizona, Sacramento, Chicago, New York, Amsterdam, Genova, Singapore, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and the Gold Coast. Justin has been intimately involved in the detailed design of a number of automated dry boat storage facilities and has a strong operational background. In conjunction with Hartmut Hofmann and the Lödige team, Justin has developed the integration of dry boat storage with automated materials handling systems to provide the systems we offer.

Justin is also currently a major shareholder and Director of The Sydney Superyacht Marina (SSM) www.superyachtmarina.com.au   The Marina is the only dedicated superyacht marina in Sydney and is the only purpose built superyacht facility in Australia. The development comprises 24 superyachts up to 70m in length as well as over 7000m² of fine dining offers/retail/commercial suites plus car parking for over 200 cars.

Brian began a shipping container storage and repair business in St Peters in 1974. By 1990 this business had grown to be the largest such business in Sydney with more than 100 employees in three Sydney locations. This business operated five 30 ton forklifts, fourteen 15 ton forklifts, stored 15,000 shipping containers and had full length rail sidings at St Peters and Port Botany.

The latter stages of this business involved a joint venture with P&O, when the business became known as Sydney Haulage Containers. In response to growing demand, Brian and his team oversaw the design and construction of the 20 acre Port Botany facility, a project at the time worth $25 million. In 1980, Brian started a fuel distribution business at the St Peters site as an agent for Total and Ampol.

This business grew to include twelve delivery tankers and was sold to Shell in 1991. He still retains extensive contacts within the petroleum industry. 1992 saw an expansion of Brian’s interests into aircraft container repairs, with the creation of a facility which repaired most of the air freight containers owned by Qantas and Ansett. He was bought out of this business in 1998 by the Norwegian firm Nordisk Aviation Products, which is the largest manufacturer of aircraft containers worldwide.

In 1998 Brian was bought out of his St Peters operation by Sydney Airports Corporation, taking over Brian’s leases, concepts and designs for a $60 million air cargo facility adjacent to Sydney Airport. In January 2003, Brian and his business partner Tony Ellis became the successful tenders for the R1 and W1 sites in Rozelle Bay.

In December 2006 Sydney City Marine was given Major Projects Application approval by the Minister for Planning to build a major boat maintenance and repair facility for Sydney Harbour which will be open October 2008. www.sydneycitymarine.com.au Brian has comprehensively travelled around the world researching marine facilities.

He has amassed enormous amounts technical information, made extensive contacts and gained a general know how for what works when building a facility from the ground up. Brian was the President of the NSW Super Yacht Industry Alliance, a joint State Government / private industry interest group started in May 2006. It represents those businesses and associations supporting the handling of very large private vessels in New South Wales.

Brian is also currently a major shareholder and Director of The Sydney Superyacht Marina (SSM) www.superyachtmarina.com.au   The Marina is the only dedicated superyacht marina in Sydney and is the only purpose built superyacht facility in Australia. The development comprises 24 superyachts up to 70m in length as well as over 7000m² of fine dining offers/retail/commercial suites plus car parking for over 200 cars.

Brian brings over 30 years of valuable industry related experience to the business, by virtue both of his boating background and also due to his storage and fuel industry ventures.