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International Operations

Oversease Management Team

Management

Oversease Management Team

The overseas organisation is built around regional desks and the cross-border specialisms that support them — chartering and marine operations, trade finance, and legal and compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

Structure

Functions & Accountabilities

Each desk below owns a defined part of the operation, with a named accountability rather than a shared one.

West Africa Desk

Regional coordination point for operations, counterparties and local regulatory interface in West Africa.

  • Local partner and agent coordination
  • Import/export permits and regional documentation
  • Country risk, currency and payment terms
Europe & CIS Desk

Handles European and CIS counterparties, contract standards and sanctions-screening obligations.

  • Counterparty onboarding and KYC
  • Sanctions and export-control screening
  • Contract standards and dispute resolution clauses
Southeast Asia Desk

Sourcing, inspection and shipment coordination across Southeast Asian supply markets.

  • Supplier identification and pre-shipment inspection
  • Origin documentation and preferential tariff claims
  • Consolidation and departure scheduling
Chartering & Marine Operations

Arranges tonnage and manages the voyage from fixture through to discharge and demurrage settlement.

  • Fixture negotiation and charterparty terms
  • Laytime, demurrage and despatch calculation
  • Port agency, survey and cargo documentation
Trade Finance & Banking

Structures how a cross-border transaction gets paid, and keeps documentary risk under control.

  • Letters of credit, guarantees and standby instruments
  • Documentary compliance under UCP 600
  • Currency hedging and settlement routing
Legal & Cross-Border Compliance

Contract governance and the regulatory boundaries that apply to each commodity and jurisdiction.

  • Contract drafting, review and governing-law selection
  • Cultural property, customs and export-control obligations
  • Anti-bribery, AML and counterparty due diligence

These pages describe the functions that make up the management structure and what each is accountable for. They deliberately carry no names, photographs or biographies — individual profiles should be added from the company's own records before publication.

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