SHIPPING LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS EOOD
Chartering brokers, freight operators and port operators, Sofia

Every cargo
has a ship.
We find it.

Dry bulk, breakbulk and project cargo. We fix the tonnage, we work the quay, and we stay on the shipment until it is discharged — on any range, to any port that will take it.

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What we handle

Everything that will not fit neatly into a box, and everything that has to move with it.

THE PART THAT SETS US APART

Broker, or operator

As broker we find you the vessel and are paid a commission by the party that engages us. As operator we take the tonnage on our own account and sell you the carriage at a firm, all-in rate, carrying the risk between what we pay the owner and what we quote you.

Both are ordinary in this trade. Being told which one you are dealing with is not. We write it on every offer, before you commit.

Ship chartering

Voyage charters, time charters, part cargoes. We match the load to the vessel instead of forcing the load into whichever vessel happens to be free.

Dry bulk

Grain, fertilisers, minerals, aggregates, cement. Poured straight into the hold, on handysize and supramax tonnage.

Breakbulk

Steel, timber, bagged goods, reels, machinery. Loaded piece by piece, and stowed by people who have done it for four decades.

Project cargo & heavy lift

Transformers, plant, oversized units. Lifting studies, lashing plans and the right gear on the right quay.

Port operations

Agency, supervision of loading and discharge, tally, lashing. Somebody of ours standing on the quay while it happens.

Door to door & customs

One accountable partner from the supplier’s gate to final delivery, with classification and clearance handled alongside.

What each of these actually involves

The work

No renderings and no stock photography. These are our cargoes, on our jobs.

A crane lifting a bundle of steel from the quay while two men in overalls watch
Steel coming off the quay under the ship’s crane, two men watching the load swing.
Walking the hatch covers towards the bridge, at anchor.
The launch heading out to a ship at anchor
Going out to the ship at anchor, in the launch.
A cargo ship waiting at anchor in a calm bay
A cargo ship waiting at anchor.
Green hatch covers with yellow cleat plates, looking towards the bow
On the hatch covers, looking forward to the bow.
The hatch covers and the anchorage seen from the bridge wing
From the bridge wing: the hatch covers and the anchorage.
A wrapped reel being lowered into a ship’s hold on slings
A wrapped reel going down into the hold, on slings and tag lines.
Reinforcing bar lashed and dunnaged inside a hold
Reinforcing bar, lashed and dunnaged for the passage.
Covered trailers stowed inside a ship’s hold
Covered trailers, stowed and secured in the hold.
Forklift and crane handling bundles of steel on a quay
Bundles moved from the shed to the ship’s side.
A forklift carrying packs of timber past stacked containers
Timber packs, handled where the boxes stop.
Trailers being loaded into the hold of a vessel
Loading the hold, trailer by trailer.
A general cargo vessel lying alongside a quay
A general cargo vessel alongside, hatches open.
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Where we work

Registered in Sofia, Italian by origin. We work the Adriatic and the Italian ports the way you only can when you grew up in them — and the line drawn across this chart carries on to the Far East, because that is how far a cargo sometimes has to go.

40+ Years in the tradecarried by the people at this desk, since 1984
10,000+ Shipments handledacross the careers behind this company
50+ Portsin the network we work through

The ranges and the ports we work

TRADING AREAS
Black Sea and MarmaraVarna, Burgas, Constanța, Samsun, Istanbul
AdriaticTrieste, Koper, Rijeka, Venice, Ravenna, Ancona, Bar
Italy and the MediterraneanGenoa, Naples, Taranto, Augusta, Piraeus, Valletta, Marseille, Barcelona
North AfricaAlgiers, Oran, Skikda, Tunis, Sfax, Alexandria
North Europe and UKRotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Bilbao
Atlantic and AmericasDakar, Abidjan, Santos, Houston, New Orleans
Indian Ocean and Far EastJebel Ali, Colombo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai

At anchor, before loading.

The hatch covers, seen from the bridge wing.

Standing orders

On a ship the master leaves written orders for the officer on watch: short, numbered, not open to interpretation. Ours run to five. Here are the first two.

  1. 1

    You always know in which capacity we act. Broker on commission, or operator on our own account with a firm rate — stated on every offer, before you commit.

  2. 2

    Every enquiry gets an answer within the working day — a rate if the cargo is straightforward, the questions we need answered first if it is not. A cargo left waiting is a cargo that goes elsewhere.

Read the other three, and who is behind them

Until it is discharged.

The stern at last light, with the ship under way.

Send us a cargo

Six lines on a form is all it takes to start. If the cargo is straightforward you get a position and a freight indication the same working day. If it needs a lifting study or a route survey first, we will tell you that instead of quoting blind.

Open the enquiry form Or just write to us