History of Our Company

The Company was founded in 1881 by James Edward Anderson. James Anderson joined the West India Trading Company after he graduated The Navigation School. He served for 22 years, first as a navigator then as a captain until 1880.

Having a great deal of maritime experience after his service on many vessels, including several well known crafts such as The Sea Nymph, The Phermopills, and The Sculler, Anderson decided to build his own trade company.

Since then, James Anderson’s Ridgebrook Company was engaged in the sugar-cane and tea trade from South America.

Consequently, through obtaining warehouses in Ipswich and London, the insurance office began sharing sea shipping risks. A  few years later Ridgebrook owned 3 vessels, each of 300 tons displacement: The Ridgeriver, The Ridgevalley and The Ridgebrook.

Consequently, through obtaining warehouses in Ipswich and London, the insurance office began sharing sea shipping risks. In a few years Ridgebrook owned 3 vessels, each of 300 tons displacement: The Ridgeriver, The Ridgevalley and The Ridgebrook.

After World War II, the company recommenced shipping sea freights and freight forwarding in cooperation with container lines and ship owners all over the world. By 1978 the company reached an annual turnover of goods in the amount of 720000 tons.

In the early 2000s, in order to meet their customers' needs, the company made a decision to go back to insurance brokerage business. Therefore, the subsidiary insurance direction, Ridgebrook Insurance was established focusing mainly on marine insurance. In 2007, the company went on the East European Russian market, gradually it is becoiming one of the leading business grounds.

Nowadays, the insurance intermediaries of Ridgebrook Insurance is a contemporary  group of the companies with old traditions.