A physical trading house, not a middleman.
CommoFlow buys, ships and sells raw materials — metals, minerals, fertilizer inputs and soft commodities — moving them from producers in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Africa and Australia to industrial buyers, mills, refineries and roasters worldwide. The commodities listed on this site are the books we trade most often, not the limit of what we will source; if you need a material we do not list, ask.
The business is built on the least glamorous part of the trade: getting material out of places that are difficult to get material out of, with the documentation clean enough that it clears customs and the quality intact enough that it passes inspection.
Where we operate from
Two offices, chosen to sit at the two ends of the flows we run.
Dubai
Our Middle East desk works from Dubai Media City. Dubai is the region’s clearing point for physical trade — Jebel Ali is the largest man-made harbour in the world and the re-export hub through which Gulf sulphur, urea, aluminium and precious metals reach buyers. Proximity matters: inspection, documentation and vessel nominations move faster when the desk shares a time zone with the load port.
Sydney
Our Australian office covers the Asia-Pacific: mining joint ventures and asset acquisition across the Australian states, and the iron ore, lithium, copper and manganese flows that run from the region into East Asia. It also puts us in the working hours of the Asian buying desks that take most of that tonnage.
The team
CommoFlow is run by people who have spent their careers in physical commodities rather than in financial markets — traders, logistics operators and compliance specialists who have moved cargo through the Gulf, the Caspian, the Caucasus and the Asia-Pacific.
That experience shows up in specifics rather than slogans: knowing which discharge ports can actually reheat a bitumen cargo, which gauge break will add two weeks to a Central Asian rail leg, why a good-grade deposit that will not float is not a deposit, and which questions a buyer's technical team will ask before the contract is signed. Our desk is deliberately small — the person who prices your cargo is the person who follows it to discharge.
How we work
We take title, not commission
CommoFlow is a physical trading house, not a broker or an introduction agency. We buy, ship and sell the commodities we deal in, which means we carry the cargo risk and have a direct interest in the quality that arrives — not just in the introduction being made.
Compliance before tonnage
Every counterparty is KYC and KYB verified and screened against sanctions lists before a contract is issued. In a market where a single mis-screened counterparty can freeze a cargo mid-voyage, we would rather lose a trade than inherit that problem.
Landlocked origins are the specialism
Much of what we trade begins somewhere without a coastline. Moving Central Asian and Caucasus material to market means rail, gauge breaks, border transshipment and port slots — the part of the chain where most deals fail, and the part we spend most of our time on.
One desk, whole chain
The people who price a cargo are the people who arrange its inspection, its rail leg and its vessel. Nothing is handed to a separate department that has never seen the contract.
What the desk covers
From first enquiry to discharge, handled in one place.
Physical trading
Spot and term contracts in metals, minerals, fertilizer inputs and soft commodities, priced against LME, LBMA, ICE and published index benchmarks.
Origination
Direct relationships with smelters, refineries, mines and licence holders across the Gulf, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Africa and Australia.
Inspection & quality
Pre-shipment inspection through SGS, Intertek, Bureau Veritas and CIQ, with certificates of analysis and arbitration procedures written into the contract.
Multimodal logistics
Rail, road, break-bulk, container and bulk vessel, including the trans-Caspian and Iranian corridors out of landlocked Central Asia.
Trade finance structures
Letters of credit, documentary collections, escrow and offtake-backed prepayment where the structure warrants it.
Mining advisory
Mine acquisition, joint venture structuring and investor introduction, backed by offtake from our own desk.
What we do
Connecting buyers and sellers, sourcing hard-to-find material, and mine acquisition.
Commodity trading glossary
CFR, CIF, JORC, biuret, SHG and the rest of the vocabulary, defined plainly.
Tell us what you are buying or selling.
Commodity, specification, volume and destination is enough to start. We will tell you whether we can serve it, and what the realistic delivered basis looks like.
Contact our desk