DUCAT AFRICA’s ability to create long-term sustainable value in the supply chain is contingent upon five core competencies:

Technical Expertise: Our client base consists of sophisticated industrial bulk users and state-owned enterprises and our role is to supplement technical or operational knowledge in fuel, energy and refinery-adjacent product supply. DUCAT AFRICA’s role is to act as their in-house trading and brokerage division, providing them with technical expertise and market information to help make informed purchasing decisions.

Logistics: Our role is to understand complexity in both the international and domestic context to provide a logistics solution for our client base to allow them to concentrate on their core business, whilst being confident that their key inputs will be available to them.

Scale: Our ability to open accounts and deal with major importers and refiners of products, where we can purchase and aggregate multiple counterparts. We would typically forward book either slots in a refinery or liftings ex-tank, with terms agreed either at a global level or by means of bank guarantees. DUCAT AFRICA can then provide our client base with the economies of scale that may not be available to them.

In Country Knowledge: Leveraging decades of experience, our commercial teams have established relationships with a diversified supplier and client base.

Management: Our risk management and financial capacity provide our clients and our suppliers with the comfort that they are dealing with a counterpart that can deliver the services and goods promised.