Supply chain and transportation

Our logistics team manages both ocean and inland transport in-house, allowing us to control transit times, coordinate documentation and respond directly when schedules change. We arrange freight on all principal trade lanes and hold established relationships with carriers, freight forwarders, port agents and customs brokers in the markets we serve.

Ocean freight: full and part cargoes, containerised, flexibag, isotank and parcel tanker movements.

Inland freight: road tanker, flatbed and container haulage, coordinated to the delivery window agreed with the customer.

Documentation and customs coordination, including certificates of analysis, certificates of origin, and dangerous-goods documentation where applicable.

Route and transit-time optimisation, with the objective of shortening the procurement cycle and reducing the working capital tied up in it.

Consolidated shipments, allowing customers to combine multiple products into a single movement.

We are able to place product at the port or terminal of your choosing. Cargo can be nominated to any commercial port served by our carrier network, and we quote and contract on the full range of Incoterms 2020 — EXW, FCA, FOB, CFR, CIF, DAP and DDP — so that the transfer of risk, cost and responsibility is structured to suit your procurement policy rather than ours.

Where a customer requires delivery into a market in which we do not hold inventory, we will arrange terminal storage and in-market handling on their behalf.

Term contracts providing price and availability stability across the customer’s core requirements.

Spot and arbitrage supply for out-of-cycle, short-notice and opportunistic requirements.

Vendor-managed inventory and consignment stock arrangements for customers with continuous consumption.

Blending to customer specification and private-label packaging.

Technical support on product selection, substitution and specification compliance.