Commodities & Logistics Brokers

You sell flaxseed, grain or meal. You need a mill, crusher or importer in Europe, Turkey or MENA. CL Brokers matches the sides, builds a basis that can actually move, and stays on the file through shipment, documents and funds on the account.

Sell origin · Find cargo

ORIGIN

Ukraine · Kazakhstan · Moldova · Bulgaria · Romania

BUYERS

EU · Turkey · Egypt · Saudi Arabia · UAE · United Kingdom

TERMS

EXW · FCA · CPT · DAP · FOB · CFR · CIF

MODES

truck · rail · Danube · coaster · handy · container · tanker

10+

years on the physical agri market

GAFTA · FOSFA

Contract forms

UA · EN · DE

Desk languages

Spain · Ukraine

Legal entities

What actually breaks a deal

Deals rarely fall apart over price. They fall apart over five things nobody closed at the start.

01 · Specification

The spec was agreed verbally. The buyer meant mill quality; the seller loaded what was in the shed. The gap shows up in a lab at the discharge port, with the cargo already there.

02 · Delivery basis

The basis was misread. FCA border and DAP warehouse in Germany are different money, different liability and a different moment of risk transfer. The seller costed one; the buyer read the other.

03 · Freight timing

Freight was arranged after the fix. The price is locked and there are no wagons for the window. Or there are, but flaxseed needs a container, not a hopper.

04 · Inspection

Inspection was appointed after the argument. Once both sides are already fighting, an independent sample proves nothing — there is nothing left to draw it from.

05 · Documents

Documents were prepared on the last day. One certificate with the wrong date and the parcel sits at the border while the detention clock runs.

The CL Brokers desk exists to close all five before anyone signs.

Who it is for

YOU SELL

Farm, elevator, crusher, domestic trader.

You need a buyer who pays and a route that survives the border, inspection and the loading window.

We take on counterparty search, quality alignment, the transport leg and the file through settlement.

YOU BUY

Mill, crusher, importer, trading house.

You need repeatable quality against your spec, a basis that can be performed, and a broker who does not vanish after the recap.

We source origin against your enquiry rather than offering whatever happens to be around.

How a file runs

Brief

Product, specification, volume, basis, window, currency. Missing any of these makes it an intention, not a deal, and we will say so.

Counterparty

We check the other side before the price conversation. Who they are, what they have performed, how they pay, who signs.

Market

Live bids and offers, not forwarded screenshots. A screenshot is someone’s opinion about a price; a bid is a willingness to pay.

Contract

Spec, basis, inspection, payment. GAFTA / FOSFA forms or a domestic form — as the parties agree.

Execution

Sampling, lab, transport, customs, document set.

Our Services

Commodity Brokerage

Flaxseed, niche crops, grains, oilseeds, oils, meals and cakes. We match seller and buyer and hold quality and price through the recap.

Freight

Truck, rail, Danube, coaster, handy, container, tanker. The route follows the cargo and the basis, not the other way round.

Trading

Origination around a named mill, crusher or importer. Default capacity: agent. By written agreement: own-account or affiliate purchase.

Export Consulting

First shipment, certificates, inspection, documents that clear the border and the buyer's silo.

Contract Execution

After signature we stay: laycan, survey, seals, claims, documents, settlement.

What we move

Niche — the core desk

Flaxseed

brown · golden · yellow

Speciality crops

coriander · buckwheat · millet · vetch · peas · beans

Grains

Wheat · corn · barley · rye · oats · sorghum

Oilseeds

Sunflower seed · soybeans · rapeseed · flaxseed

Processed

Sunflower · rapeseed · soybean oil

Meals & cakes

Sunflower · rapeseed · soybean

Bran

Feed and milling bran

Where it goes

EUROPEAN UNION

Poland · Germany · Italy · Spain · the Netherlands · the Baltics

UNITED KINGDOM

Direct buyer and importer enquiries

TURKEY

Black Sea and overland trade lanes

MENA

Egypt · Saudi Arabia · UAE

DELIVERY BASIS

FCA and DAP across Europe
CIF and CFR by sea

ROUTES

Danube · container · rail

TEAM

Konstanze Harder

Managing Partner · +380 68 959 7294

Educated in Germany from age 13; that remains her professional base. Years as trader and broker on the physical market: import into Germany; three and a half years in Turkey on the Ukraine–Turkey lane and onward into Europe.

Since COVID the desk has been remote, moving between countries. She now runs origin in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Bulgaria and Romania.

Languages: German, English, Ukrainian.