Black Sea and Sea of Marmara
Our home range and the one we sail most. Grain and fertiliser out of the Bulgarian and Romanian terminals, steel and general cargo through the Turkish straits.
Where we work
We are not tied to a range. The desk sits on the Black Sea, the core trade runs from there into the Mediterranean and North Africa, and the line drawn across this chart carries on to the Far East — because that is how far a cargo sometimes has to go. Broking is not a geography. It is a network.
Adriatic
The sea we know best after our own. Trieste, Koper and Rijeka are the shortest way from the Mediterranean into central Europe, and the Italian Adriatic ports move the grain, steel and project units that come with it.
Italy
Italian by origin, Bulgarian by registration. The Italian ports are where most of this desk learned the trade, and they remain the range we work with the least explaining.
Mediterranean
The bridge between the Black Sea and everywhere else. Short-sea parcels, part cargoes and transhipment through the central Mediterranean hubs.
North Africa
Forty years of discharging into these ports, where reliability counts for more than the rate. Grain, cement, steel and project units for infrastructure work.
North Europe and the UK
The Continent range for onward distribution, transhipment and European sourcing, with road and rail legs arranged alongside the sea leg.
Atlantic and the Americas
West African discharge and the South American grain and sugar season, plus Gulf loadings when the arbitrage opens.
Indian Ocean and Far East
The long haul. Project units eastbound, bulk and breakbulk on the return, routed through the Gulf and the Malacca Strait.
What the numbers mean
We would rather say exactly whose experience this is than round a figure up and hope nobody checks.
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 VOYAGE ON THIS CHART
Varna43°12′N 027°55′E — departure
Istanbul41°01′N 028°58′E — the straits
Valletta35°54′N 014°31′E — central Mediterranean
Gibraltar35°57′N 005°36′W — out into the Atlantic
Dakar14°42′N 017°48′W — West Africa
Santos24°00′S 046°18′W — South America
Cape Town34°00′S 018°27′E — rounding the Cape
Singapore01°17′N 103°51′E — the Malacca Strait
Shanghai31°12′N 121°30′E — arrival
Last updated 22 September 2026