Our agricultural book runs on two origins. Russian Black Sea grain and oilseed products reach buyers across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, and Southern African maize and soya serve regional demand. Both are traded on recognised standard forms rather than bespoke paper.
From Russian origin: milling and feed wheat, feed barley, maize and sunflower oil, loading out of Black Sea and Azov ports. Russia is the largest wheat exporter in the world and its freight advantage into North and East Africa is structural rather than cyclical, which is why the trade persists through political noise.
From Southern African origin: white and yellow maize and soybeans, moving regionally and into the Indian Ocean trade. Southern African maize is a seasonal book that swings between surplus and deficit with the rains, so timing matters more than in the grain trade generally.
| Products | Milling wheat, feed wheat, feed barley, maize, soybeans, sunflower oil |
|---|---|
| Origins | Russian Federation (Black Sea and Azov); South Africa and the SADC region |
| Contracts | GAFTA and FOSFA standard forms as applicable |
| Inspection | SGS, Intertek or Control Union at load port |
| Terms | FOB load port; CFR and CIF destination by arrangement |
| Volumes | Handysize and Supramax parcels; containerised for smaller lots |
| Pricing | On application |
Grain trades on standard forms for a reason: GAFTA and FOSFA contracts already answer the questions that a bespoke agreement will get wrong, from quality tolerance and weight franchise to arbitration. We work on those forms and negotiate the commercial terms around them rather than redrafting from scratch.
Quality is settled on load port inspection by an independent surveyor, with the certificate final for quality and weight except in the case of fraud or manifest error. That is the market standard and buyers who insist on discharge port final in this trade will find very few sellers.
If you produce or hold this material and you do not have a reliable route to a buyer, this is the side of the desk you want. Below is who we place it with and what we will need to know.
Millers, feed compounders, crushers and state and private grain importers
North Africa, East Africa, the Middle East and South Asia
Handysize and Supramax parcels, with containerised lots for smaller volumes
You do not need all of this to make first contact. Rough figures are enough to get an answer.
Trades on GAFTA and FOSFA standard forms with load port inspection final. A seller who understands that convention is halfway to a concluded contract.
Yes. Milling and feed wheat, feed barley, maize and sunflower oil of Russian origin, loading out of Black Sea and Azov ports, on GAFTA and FOSFA standard forms.
White and yellow maize and soybeans, traded regionally and into the Indian Ocean market. Availability is seasonal and follows the Southern African harvest cycle.
GAFTA and FOSFA standard forms as applicable to the product, with quality and weight determined by independent inspection at load port.
Russia is the largest wheat exporter in the world and its freight advantage into Africa is structural. How the trade is specified, inspected and contracted.
Full Corporate Offers get ignored for a small number of predictable reasons. What a buyer sees when yours lands, and what to change before the next one.
Non circumvention agreements are routinely misused to lock producers into arrangements that give them nothing. What a fair one looks like and what to refuse.
Metallurgical chrome concentrate from the Bushveld Complex and Zimbabwe's Great Dyke, 40 to 42% and 46 to 48% Cr₂O₃, moving on FOT, DAP and FOB terms.
LME Grade A equivalent copper cathode and blister out of the Central African Copperbelt, routed through Dar es Salaam, Beira and Durban.
South African RB1, RB2 and RB3 thermal coal at 5,500 to 6,000 kcal/kg NAR, FOB Richards Bay and Maputo, priced against API4.
Send the grade, roughly how much you have and where it sits. You will know inside a trading day whether we have a buyer for it.