Throughout past twenty two years, founders of Colonade International developed several global relationships, especially in CEE, CIS and Canada that led to the establishment of commodities brokerage business. Colonade can help not only in arranging trade introductions but also in sourcing trade finance.

In addition to making introductions and arranging trade finance, for buyers and sellers of global commodities we can help with facilitation, co-ordination, process management and contract negotiations for both spot and term trades.

Sellers that we work with in most of the cases come from CEE/CIS, especially Russia and Ukraine. Buyers, on the other hand, tend to come from Middle East and Asia.

Currently and in the recent past, we were involved and exposed to trades in the following commodities:

• Energy - biomass, D2, mazut and coal
• Metals & Minerals - copper, iron ore, silver and gold
• Steel Products - more info

Colonade International developed several direct brokerage relationships with steel mills/plants, especially in Poland and Ukraine, producing wide variety of high quality finished steel products. We can source high quality products at very competitive prices, meeting worldwide quality standards under PN, EN, DIN, ASME, ASTM, SEW, BS, DEF-STAN, API5L, JIS norms/certificates/specifications. Among the others, we can source the following: Seamless pipes and tubes made from carbon, alloy and heat resistant steel using VAD process (Vacuum Argon Degassing) Oil and Gas pipes Line pipes Construction pipes Shipbuilding pipes Boiler pipes Mechanical tubes Steel in Ingots Carbon and alloy construction steels Boiler steels Shipbuilding steels Carbon and alloy tool steels Spring steels Specialty/custom made steels

• Chemicals - Urea
• Agricultural Commodities - wheat, corn, egg powder and vegetable oil
• Other Commodities - cement