Dry Cargo. Fixed with Judgement.

AZTAM Shipbrokers works cargo and tonnage across the dry bulk trades:
voyage, trip and period. Every order is read by a broker, not a mailbox.

From the Black Sea.
To the Far East.

Grains, coal, ores, steels, fertilisers and project cargo.
One desk covering both basins, East and West of Suez.

About AZTAM

Industry focused,
relationship driven.

AZTAM Shipbrokers is a dry cargo desk built on a simple idea: a broker's name is worth more than any single fixture. We work orders properly, answer plainly, and stay with the business after it is fixed.

A desk, not a mailbox.

Every order is read.

Circulars reaching us are read and answered by a working broker. A genuine enquiry gets a genuine reply.

Judgement over volume.

Signal, not noise.

We circulate what is genuine and drop what is not. Your order travels with its details intact, never dressed up.

Both basins, one desk.

East and West of Suez.

The desk is split across the two basins, so your business is worked in the market it belongs to.

Short chains, straight terms.

Close to the principal.

We keep broking chains short and commissions plain. Closer to the principal, closer to the fixture.

The desk

Worked by brokers.
Answered by a person.

Cargo circulars, tonnage lists and orders land on one working desk. The genuine business gets worked. We match it against the book, propose it to the right counterparty, and follow it until there is an answer. What is noise is dropped quietly, so your business never queues behind it.

Cargo to cover or tonnage open? Write to the desk:

Or ask to join our circulation list

What the desk does

Cargo first

Voyage Chartering

A cargo is only fixed well when the ship suits it: the right size, the right gear, the right position for the laycan. The desk works voyage business from both ends: cargoes seeking suitable tonnage and open ships seeking their next employment, across the bulk and breakbulk trades.

Orders are matched against a live book of cargo and tonnage that refreshes through the working day. When we propose a ship for your cargo, or a cargo for your ship, the proposal carries its reasons: position, size, gear and history, stated plainly so you can judge it in a minute.

From first indication through laycan, load and discharge terms to recap, the same broker stays with the business.

Tonnage employed

Time Charter Trips

For owners with open tonnage and operators covering a trip, the desk arranges time charter trip employment: delivery and redelivery worked to suit the ship's rotation, hire ideas grounded in what the market is actually paying rather than what a list says.

We see trip orders daily across both basins, which keeps our sense of the market honest: where tonnage is tight, where it is long, and what that means for your next fixture.

Longer cover

Period Employment

Some business calls for more than a trip. For owners seeking steady cover and for operators building a book, the desk works period orders with the same discipline as spot business: real counterparties, plain terms, and a clear view of the forward market before anyone commits.

Period business rewards patience and punishes noise. We only bring you what deserves your time.

Awkward is our normal

Project & Parcels

Not every cargo fills a ship. Part cargoes, parcels, units and project pieces need brokers who will work the stow, the routing and the combination, not just forward the enquiry and hope.

The desk handles project and parcel business across the dry trades, matching awkward cargoes with the geared and boxed tonnage that can actually lift them.

Circulars and market colour

Market Coverage

The desk maintains an active circulation of orders and tonnage to owners, operators and fellow brokers across the dry cargo market. Our circulars carry orders with their details intact: real laycan, real quantity, real terms. That is what makes them worth reading.

If you would like to receive our circulars, or to have your own orders and open positions reach the right counterparties, write to the desk with the subject "Circulation request". Every circular carries a working unsubscribe. One click, honoured immediately.

Frequently asked &
how the desk works.

Straight answers about working with AZTAM, and what happens to your order once it reaches us.

How do I get my order worked?

Send it to drycargo@aztamshipbrokers.com with the usual details: cargo and quantity, load and discharge, laycan and terms. It is read on arrival, and if the desk can add value you will hear from a broker, not an autoresponder.

Dry bulk and breakbulk: grains and agriproducts, coal, ores and minerals, steels and scrap, fertilisers, cement and clinker, sugar and bagged cargo, and project pieces. Voyage, time charter trip and period.

Both basins. The desk is split East and West of Suez, from the Black Sea, Mediterranean and Continent through the Gulf and Indian Ocean to Southeast Asia and the Far East. Orders are worked in their own market, in its own hours.

The trade's normal terms, stated plainly on every proposal. We keep broking chains short: no hidden addresses, no surprise names at recap. What you see on the order is what the business carries.

Yes. Owners, operators and brokers are welcome. Write to the desk with the subject "Circulation request". Every circular we send carries a one-click unsubscribe, honoured immediately.

Complete, honest details: a real laycan, a real quantity, named load and discharge where possible. The market reads hundreds of circulars a day. The orders that carry their details intact get answered first.

Your order arrives

Step one: read, not filed

Every circular and order reaching the desk is read the day it lands. Genuine business is separated from market noise before anything else happens.

Matched against the book

Step two: cargo meets tonnage

Your order is set against a live book of cargoes and open positions covering both basins. Size, gear, position and laycan are weighed together.

Proposed and followed

Step three: worked, then chased

The right counterparty gets a proposal that carries its reasons. Then the desk follows it, politely and persistently, until there is an answer.

Answered either way

Step four: no silence

Fixed, countered or declined, you hear back. A market works on answers, and so does this desk.

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad

The trades we work.
Daily, in both basins.

The desk's book runs across the dry cargoes. These are the flows we see and work every day.

Grains & Agriproducts

wheat · corn · barley · soya

The agricultural flows that move the handy and supra markets, worked from the loaders' side and the tonnage side alike.

Coal

thermal · coking · petcoke

Energy and steel-mill coal in full and part cargoes, from the established exporters to the discharge ranges that burn it.

Ores & Minerals

iron ore · chrome · bauxite

Mineral cargoes across the sizes, from concentrates to lumpy and fines, matched with tonnage that can load and carry them properly.

Steels & Metals

coils · plates · billets · pipes

Finished and semi-finished steel. These cargoes punish careless stowage and reward brokers who know the difference.

Scrap

hms · shredded · bonus

The return leg of the steel trade. Scrap flows into the mills, worked with the operators who run this business week in, week out.

Fertilisers

urea · dap · sulphur · potash

Bulk and bagged fertiliser trades in both directions. Seasonal, price-sensitive business that rewards a desk watching it daily.

Cement & Clinker

clinker · slag · gypsum

Construction minerals in steady volume: clinker, slag and aggregates on the routes that build the region.

Sugar & Bagged Cargo

sugar · rice · bagged goods

Bagged and break-bulk foodstuffs. Trades with their own terms and their own norms, worked by brokers who know them.

Project & Breakbulk

units · equipment · heavy pieces

The cargoes that do not fit a hold chart: units, equipment and project pieces needing geared ships and worked stows.