About Red Dot Marine

The People and Judgment Behind RdM

Red Dot Marine, operating under the RdM brand, is a maritime advisory and ship broking platform supporting serious principals in vessel sale & purchase, chartering, ship valuation, and pre-deal commercial assessment.

Our work is built around one simple discipline: clarity before commitment. We help clients assess commercial realism, transaction risk, vessel value, chartering feasibility, and execution pathways before capital, credibility, or momentum are committed.

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Who We Are

RdM is a ship broking and maritime advisory platform focused on practical, commercially grounded support for buyers, sellers, owners, charterers, investors, and maritime decision-makers.

We are not a volume listing desk, nor a speculative circulation platform. Our role is to help serious parties move from uncertainty to clarity, and from clarity to execution where the transaction path is credible.

Ship Broking

Selective sale, purchase, and chartering support where mandate, authority, and commercial alignment are clear.

Maritime Advisory

Independent pre-deal judgment for clients who need clarity before deposits, mandates, negotiations, or execution.

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Practical entry-level ship valuation and chartering checks designed to support early-stage commercial decisions.

Founder-Led Maritime Judgment

K. Srinivas Patnaik

RdM is founder-led by K. Srinivas Patnaik, a maritime professional with more than 35 years of experience across sea-going engineering, ship management, technical operations, drydocking, inspections, ship sale & purchase, chartering support, ship recycling, and maritime business development.

His background combines practical shipboard experience with shore-based commercial and operational exposure. This allows RdM to assess maritime opportunities not only from a transaction angle, but also from the perspective of vessel condition, operating risk, owner expectations, market realism, and execution discipline.

The purpose of RdM’s advisory and broking approach is not to create unnecessary momentum. It is to help clients make better decisions before value, reputation, or time are placed at risk.

Experience Lens

  • Sea-going engineering background
  • Ship management and technical operations
  • Drydocking, inspections, and vessel condition review
  • Ship sale & purchase exposure
  • Chartering and feasibility support
  • Ship recycling and asset-end-cycle awareness
  • Advisory-led commercial judgment

Singapore / India Presence

RdM operates through a Singapore and India structure, combining founder-led commercial judgment with India-based research, coordination, documentation, and execution support.

This structure allows RdM to remain lean, responsive, and disciplined while supporting maritime enquiries across ship broking, valuation, chartering feasibility, and pre-deal review.

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Team & Execution Support

RdM is founder-led, with structured support for research, lead preparation, market tracking, documentation, client coordination, business development, and transaction follow-up.

This support structure allows RdM to remain lean, senior-led, and commercially disciplined, while ensuring that ship broking enquiries, vessel requirements, valuation inputs, chartering details, and follow-up actions are handled with continuity.

Operating Support

  • Lead preparation and market research
  • Vessel and company background checks
  • Sale & purchase support
  • Chartering coordination support
  • Offshore vessel research and requirement tracking
  • Documentation and communication support
  • CRM and follow-up discipline
  • Business development and contracts support

Support Team

  • Sunita — Head, India Operations & Coordination
  • Harshita — Sale & Purchase Support · Marketing & Research
  • Jyothi — Chartering Support · Client Coordination & CRM
  • Durga — Offshore Support · Accounts & Research
  • Gerard — Communications · Business Development & Contracts Support

Senior commercial judgment remains founder-led, while the support team assists with disciplined preparation, coordination, follow-up, and execution support across RdM’s ship broking and maritime advisory work.

What We Do

Ship Broking

  • Sale and purchase support
  • Chartering support
  • Buyer / seller / charterer requirement review
  • Mandate and authority checks
  • Counterparty and transaction-path discipline
  • Selective execution where the opportunity is credible
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Maritime Advisory

  • Pre-deal sanity checks
  • Desktop vessel valuation
  • Chartering feasibility review
  • Commercial risk observations
  • Market-aligned decision support
  • Written advisory output where scope is agreed
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How We Work

RdM works on a simple operating principle: serious maritime work should begin with clarity, not speculation.

1) Clarify

We first understand the requirement, commercial context, parties involved, authority chain, and decision objective.

2) Assess

We assess value, feasibility, risk, market alignment, and whether the transaction or enquiry deserves further action.

3) Execute Selectively

Where alignment exists, RdM may support S&P, chartering, valuation-backed negotiation, or structured transaction progression.

Operating Principles

What We Stand For

  • Clarity before commitment
  • Confidential handling
  • Written-first communication where possible
  • Commercial realism over optimism
  • Mandate and authority awareness
  • Selective execution, not volume chasing

What We Avoid

  • Speculative vessel or requirement circulation
  • Unclear intermediary chains
  • Free opinions replacing structured advisory work
  • Deal momentum without authority clarity
  • Execution before commercial alignment
  • Promotional claims without practical basis

Business & Verification Details

RdM believes that serious maritime clients should be able to understand who they are dealing with, where the business is based, and how to make contact through proper channels.

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India Entity

Online Presence

Contact RdM

For serious ship broking, maritime advisory, ship valuation, or chartering check enquiries, please contact us in writing. Written communication is preferred for clarity, confidentiality, and proper review.

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Please include the basic context of your enquiry, the vessel or requirement type, your role in the transaction, and the timeline involved.

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