Jim Riordan, managing director of Riordan Grains, is driving change through the grain transport, storage and export industry. Picture: Peter Ristevski Riordan Grain a rapidly growing company Dave Cairns Geelong Advertiser April 30, 2018 12:00am . HANGING in the foyer of Riordan Grain is a framed reminder of the game-changing day the Lara firm loosened the hold of the grain …

Andrew Miller 15 Mar 2018, 5:30 p.m. Increased on-farm grain storage could shave at least $25 a tonne off the price of grain handling, putting more money in grower’s pockets. That’s the view of Riordan Grains managing director, Jim Riordan. “There will be a plethora of on-farm storage built in the next 10 years, far greater than we have ever …

Liz Wells, 06 March 2018 The use of mobile ship-loaders on public berths in southeastern Australia is providing new opportunities to grain exporters without links to bulk terminals. https://www.graincentral.com/news/mobile-ship-loaders-bulk-up-southeasts-grain-exports/

Liz Wells, 27 February 2018 Riordan Grains has kicked off its 2018 export program with the loading of a cargo of barley bound for China. https://www.graincentral.com/cropping/grains/riordan-loads-first-barley-cargo-to-china-for-2018/

Andrew Miller 26 Feb 2018, 4:01 p.m. The poor condition of Victoria’s rural roads is taking a heavy toll on the transport fleet of one of Victoria’s biggest truck operators, a Geelong grains conference has been told. Riordan Grains managing director Jim Riordan told the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) Grains Conference, in Geelong, the state’s roads were falling well below even …

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued final determinations that exempt Riordan Grain Services and Semaphore Container Services from having to comply with certain parts of the mandatory Bulk Wheat Code when providing services at their respective Port of Geelong and Port Adelaide facilities. “The ACCC considers that both Riordan and Semaphore will face significant competitive constraint, specifically from …

PETER HEMPHILL, The Weekly Times May 11, 2017 12:00am  RIORDAN Grain will have loaded six export ships of bulk wheat and barley at Geelong by the end of June — with not a cent paid in penalties for slow loading.Two wheat and two barley shipments totalling 96,000 tonnes have been loaded since the company began the export shipping operation in …

Langdon Grain Logistics (LGL) and Riordan Grain Services (RGS) are very pleased to announce the merging of their businesses from 1 July 2016. The businesses have had extensive dealings over the last two decades but the relationship became closer in 2008 when both operated from LGL’s Lismore storage facility. The merging brings together two Australian businesses with a similar hands-on …