Trade corridors

Four working lanes from origin port to the buyer’s dock.

Each corridor is a contracted commercial lane — named ports, documented carriers, tested document discipline, and a rhythm we run on every shipment.

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Working lanes

Four corridors. Real ports. Real cargo.

West Africa → Europe

The main corridor for main-crop cocoa, cleaned sesame, RCN outturn, and hand-sorted hibiscus.

Origin ports

Abidjan · Tema · Apapa (Lagos) · Cotonou

Destinations

Antwerp · Hamburg · Rotterdam · Le Havre

Commodities

CocoaCashewSesameHibiscus

Transit

12 – 18 days on the main vessel rotations

  • Cocoa main crop parcels move October to March on disciplined vessel slots.
  • EUDR geolocation packages are prepared in parallel with commercial docs.
  • Cashew RCN and kernel shipments move against KOR-banded contracts.

West Africa → Middle East & Asia

Cash-crop rhythm into tahini, crushing, and ingredient markets via the Gulf and South Asia.

Origin ports

Apapa · Tema · Cotonou · Dakar

Destinations

Jebel Ali · Mersin · Nhava Sheva · Tuticorin · Ho Chi Minh City

Commodities

SesameCashew (RCN)GingerHibiscus

Transit

22 – 35 days via the Cape or Suez routing

  • Sesame purity grades matched to Turkish and Israeli buyer expectations.
  • RCN lots contracted into Vietnamese and Indian processors with outturn guarantees.
  • Fumigation and phytosanitary discipline on every load for the Gulf corridor.

East Africa → Europe & Americas

Single-origin Arabica, commercial Robusta, and speciality spice volumes out of the Horn.

Origin ports

Mombasa · Djibouti · Dar es Salaam · Addis Ababa (airfreight)

Destinations

Antwerp · Trieste · Hamburg · New York · Oakland · Vancouver

Commodities

CoffeeSesameSpicesGinger

Transit

21 – 30 days on regular Europe rotations; 30 – 42 days to US coasts

  • Speciality Arabica moves on vacuum or GrainPro to protect cup profile.
  • Robusta screen grades travel on regular commercial slots into Antwerp.
  • Cupping samples retained from every lot for buyer verification.

Southern & Island Africa → Global

Speciality spice programmes and hand-sorted botanicals from Madagascar, Cameroon, and Tanzania.

Origin ports

Toamasina · Douala · Dar es Salaam

Destinations

Hamburg · Mumbai · Singapore · Dubai · New York

Commodities

ClovesBlack pepperHibiscusSpices

Transit

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.
  • Low-density cargo modelled into landed price, not bolted on at destination.

Shipment flow

Origin warehouse → destination dock, in four controlled stages.

  1. Origin

    Warehouse & export

    Lots are pooled at licensed exporter warehouses, cleaned or graded to spec, and prepared for export under supervised load.

  2. Port

    Load & document

    Independent surveyors supervise load. Phytosanitary, fumigation, and origin certificates are finalised with the bill of lading.

  3. Vessel

    Transit control

    Vessel milestones and document release points are tracked against the buyer calendar — not left to the line agent.

  4. Destination

    Discharge & release

    Document release is sequenced to payment trigger. Destination compliance and any quality adjustments are reconciled post-discharge.

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Name the origin. Name the destination. We’ll tell you the shipment rhythm.

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