Capital, structuring and relationships that make trades happen

Most trades fail not for lack of product or demand, but for lack of structure: the right financing, the right security, the right alignment between producer, off-taker, vessel and bank. Our structured trade and finance capability sits alongside Montage’s trading desks and its manufacturing base to close that gap.

We combine balance-sheet strength, deep banking and producer relationships, and disciplined structuring to originate and complete transactions that others cannot, across our core regions in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Our structured trades and origination desk finances and structures commodity opportunities from first sight to settlement. We identify where supply, demand and capital can be brought together, then build the framework, pricing, security, payment and risk allocation, that makes a trade bankable and durable.

Origination is where our group comes into its own. Long-term producer relationships, a leading off-take position with a major Middle East urea producer, and a dominant footprint across Africa and Latin America give the desk genuine access to flow. Our trading teams’ data- and AI-assisted market intelligence sharpens how we price, map counterparties and structure risk.

If you are a trader, producer or originator with established supply or demand channels but you need financing or structuring to execute, bring it to us. Where the flow is genuine and the counterparties are sound, our origination desk will build a beneficial, bankable structure around it, and put the capital behind it.

We actively welcome partners who can bring real supply or offtake to the table. You contribute the channel and the relationships; we contribute the balance sheet, the deal structure, the security package and the risk framework. The result is a partnership that turns flow you already control into completed, financed trades, on terms that work for everyone involved.

Freight is rarely just a cost line, it is often the difference between a trade clearing and a trade stalling. We arrange ship hiring and chartering to match tonnage to cargo, route and timing, optimising freight from origin to destination across dry bulk and liquid commodities.

Where a transaction calls for it, we bring ship financing to the table, structuring the capital and security around the vessel and voyage so that cargo and tonnage move together. The result is a single counterparty taking responsibility for both the goods and the means of carrying them.

Fuel is one of the largest and most time-sensitive costs in any voyage, and securing it can strain even well-run counterparties. Our bunker finance offering provides the working capital and structuring to keep vessels supplied and voyages on schedule.

By financing bunkers alongside our chartering and trade finance activity, we remove a common point of friction in the chain, so that the trade keeps moving rather than waiting on liquidity.

Structured trade, origination, chartering, ship finance and bunker finance are not separate products at Montage. They are facets of a single proposition: bring capital, structuring and relationships together to make a trade happen, all the way through.

Whether you are a producer seeking off-take and financing, a buyer needing dependable structured supply, or an originator looking to finance flow you already control, our Dubai desk can build a structure around it.