Logistics & Distribution
International logistics and distribution. From origin to the buyer's door, by air, ocean, rail and road.
Logistics services
The group plans and runs the movement of goods between the businesses it finances, ships and trades, and for third parties.
- Air freight
- The fastest option for urgent and high-value shipments, with immediate departures where the trade requires them.
- Ocean freight
- The largest volumes at the lowest cost per unit: full and part container loads, break-bulk and project cargo.
- Rail freight
- Overland corridors between Asia and Europe, where rail sits between ocean on cost and air on time.
- Road freight
- Domestic and cross-border haulage, and the final leg from port or railhead to the buyer.
- Distribution
- Warehousing, consolidation and delivery planned around the buyer's demand rather than the carrier's schedule.
Who we work with
- Manufacturers and distributors
- moving inputs in and finished goods out across borders.
- Traders
- who need the cargo delivered, not only shipped.
- The group's own domains of activity
- whose trade finance, maritime and commodity flows run through the same chain.
- Partners
- carriers, forwarders and warehouse operators who want a counterparty with its own cargo.
The same chain carries the group's own trade finance, maritime and commodity flows. Partners work with a counterparty that has its own cargo, and buyers with a logistics provider that can also finance and ship the goods.
Where a trade is financed through the group, suppliers can be paid when they ship rather than when the end buyer settles, and loading, stowage, port calls and documentation are handled by the maritime desk that operates the vessel.
Where Capital Moves With Precision.
How a shipment is planned
Origin
Collection, consolidation and export documentation at the point of production.
Transit
Mode and route chosen per shipment: air for time, ocean for volume, rail and road for the gaps between.
Delivery
Warehousing and distribution at destination, timed to the buyer's demand.
Related domains of activity
Maritime
- International shipping
- Cargo operations
- Shipyards ownership & management
Trade Finance
- Lending facilities
- Letters of credit
- Export factoring
- Forfaiting
- Export credits
- Insurance and guarantees
- EXIM banks & RMA correspondent banking network
Commodities
- Energy commodities
- Food commodities
Capital
- Fund of funds
- Investment banking and venture capital
- Merchant banking
- Sovereign bond issuance
- EU funding
- World Bank teams (past work)