Trade corridors
Four lanes.
Contracted, not aspirational.
Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean, Gulf. Each corridor is a working route with named origin ports, documented carriers, and a rhythm we run on every shipment — not a line drawn on a pitch deck.
Working lanes
Origin ports.
Destination markets.
Each corridor reads as a flight-board record — named origin ports on the left, named destinations on the right, and the commodities the desk has moved across that lane.
- 01Atlantic
West Africa → Europe
Origin ports
Abidjan · Tema · Apapa · Cotonou
Destination markets
Antwerp · Hamburg · Rotterdam · Le Havre
The main corridor for main-crop cocoa, cleaned sesame, RCN outturn, and hand-sorted hibiscus.
CocoaCashewSesameHibiscusTransit
12 – 18 days on the main vessel rotations.
Main-crop cocoa moves October to March on disciplined vessel slots. EUDR geolocation packages are prepared in parallel with commercial documents.
- 02Gulf
West Africa → Middle East & Asia
Origin ports
Apapa · Tema · Cotonou · Dakar
Destination markets
Jebel Ali · Mersin · Nhava Sheva · Tuticorin
Cash-crop rhythm into tahini, crushing, and ingredient markets via the Gulf and South Asia.
SesameCashew (RCN)GingerHibiscusTransit
22 – 35 days via the Cape or Suez routing.
Sesame purity grades matched to Turkish and Israeli buyers. RCN lots contracted into Vietnamese and Indian processors with outturn guarantees.
- 03Mediterranean
East Africa → Europe & Americas
Origin ports
Mombasa · Djibouti · Dar es Salaam · Addis Ababa (air)
Destination markets
Antwerp · Trieste · Hamburg · New York · Oakland
Single-origin Arabica, commercial Robusta, and speciality spice volumes out of the Horn.
CoffeeSesameSpicesGingerTransit
21 – 30 days to Europe. 30 – 42 days to the US coasts.
Speciality Arabica moves on vacuum or GrainPro. Robusta screen grades travel on regular commercial slots into Antwerp. Cupping samples retained on every lot.
- 04Indian Ocean
Southern & Island Africa → Global
Origin ports
Toamasina · Douala · Dar es Salaam
Destination markets
Hamburg · Mumbai · Singapore · Dubai · New York
Speciality spice programmes and hand-sorted botanicals from Madagascar, Cameroon, and Tanzania.
ClovesBlack pepperHibiscusSpicesTransit
28 – 40 days depending on routing and transshipment.
Cloves and Penja-family pepper programmes move on disciplined export windows. Hand-sorting and cleaning done at origin under supervised batch lots.
Corridor discipline
A corridor holds
when the numbers do.
Vessel-slot discipline, contract-to-load rhythm, and document-release SLAs. The three measures banks and buyers ask for before the first box is booked.
Calendar · 2025
On-time vessel-slot rate
Booked vessel slots honoured against the committed window across 2025 shipments.
Average contract-to-load
Median days from signed contract to bill of lading across the four corridors.
Document-release SLA
Surrender or endorsement inside the agreed window from payment trigger.
A corridor is a contract, not a line on a map.
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