Trade Finance is the provision of finance to enable potential trader to bridge the funding gap between purchase and sale.

Too often vanilla finance products offered by financial institutions do not answer the trade finance needs of individual business and organisations today.  These readymade solutions are created in response to a perceived need from clients, but can only answer the general needs of many.

Petrocam has an extensive understanding of business needs and related requirements of financial institutions. We provide advice on cost effective tailor-made Structured Trade Finance Solutions based on the individual needs of an organisation and work closely with financial institutions to make our client’s vision a reality.

Certainly the most effective way to enable or facilitate a businesses' access to finance is to improve the quality of transactions proposed to the financial institutions. The efficiencies in structured solutions allow for negotiation of competitive financing rates offered by financial service providers.

Petrocam Trading is continuously in the development and implementation of innovative trade structured solutions that enhance your company's performance and deliver on time - every time.

Petrocam Trading has developed a portfolio of Structured Trade Solutions focused on facilitating trade flows to and from Africa. The core fundamentals of these solutions provide support for majority of trade structures which are then customised by incorporating the trade profile.

Structured Trade Solutions provide enhancement of client’s business using our “Cradle to the Grave” approach.

We provide flexible variations to our solutions which can be packaged to enhance our client’s capability of obtaining the required funding from investors and financial institutions.

Rather than paying your supplier directly, our solutions can provide enhancement to gear your current available liquidity between 2 to 10 times depending on the tradability of the commodity. A structured Trade finance facility is complimentary to a client’s existing funding arrangements and enables your business to take on additional trade, which would otherwise be lost.

Our structured solutions have the effect of lessening the load of the operations of businesses, allowing the client to FOCUS on bloodline of their business, i.e. Sales and Marketing. Our solutions are implemented via financial institutions that offer out of the box trade finance structures utilising supply chain service providers.

Take advantage of our trade expertise to implement more efficient complex trade processes and streamlined operation flows which will unlock your working capital, reduce operating costs, accelerate payment cycles and mitigate risk exposure, optimising your returns on investments.