Cape Town · Southern Africa

The cargo finds the buyer. The load finds the truck. Meridian finds both.

Meridian Petroleum Group runs two desks from one principle: verified counterparties, papered deals, and market knowledge you can check. Fuel cargoes across SADC ports. Road freight across Southern African corridors.

2desks, one standard
13SADC ports tracked
7+road corridors covered
100%papered deals — NCNDA/IMFPA standard

What we do

Two trades. One way of working: verify everything.

A broker's only asset is being worth trusting. We built both desks the same way — every counterparty checked, every deal documented, every claim verifiable.

Desk one

Fuel Cargo Brokerage

We track product tankers across 13 SADC ports daily. When a cargo sits longer than it should, we know the owner, the parcel and the phone number — and we know which licensed importer or terminal fits it.

  • Distressed & slow-moving cargo intel — live AIS tracking
  • Owner-side approach via port agents — FCO within 72 hours
  • Buyer-side matching: state importers, terminals, distributors
  • Full document chain: NCNDA → FCO → IMFPA → SPA → SGS
  • Anti-scam operating rules — we walk away from fake allocations
See how the fuel desk works →
Desk two

Road Freight Brokerage

Shippers get matched trucks with real vetting — insurance, operating licence, references — not just a number from a group chat. Carriers get loads that pay and pay on time.

  • Domestic lanes: Cape Town–Johannesburg–Durban triangle
  • Cross-border corridors: Beira, Maputo, Walvis Bay
  • Every carrier vetted: CIPC, GIT insurance, OL disc, references
  • Rate confirmations, POD capture, detention auto-claims
  • WhatsApp-native — a load confirmed in minutes, not days
See how the freight desk works →

How a Meridian deal runs

Fuel cargo or road freight — the sequence is the same. Verify first, paper the deal, execute visibly.

Verify the counterparty

Fuel: IMO + AIS position + owner in the shipping registers. Freight: CIPC registration, insurance certificates, operating licence, references.

Paper the introduction

NCNDA before names. IMFPA so the commission chain is agreed by everyone up front. No handshake deals.

Put the fit on record

Fuel: product, quantity, spec, price basis, discharge port. Freight: lane, equipment, rate, pickup and delivery windows.

Execute visibly

Fuel: SGS at discharge, escrow/LC settlement. Freight: tracked transit, check calls, POD on file, detention auto-claimed.

Close clean

Every deal logged. Every rating earned. The next deal starts with a record, not a promise.

Why us

Small desk. Deep knowledge. Zero noise.

The cargo brokerage space is crowded with "brokers" who have neither cargo nor buyers. The freight space is crowded with group-chat middlemen who vanish when something goes wrong. Meridian is the opposite: narrow, deep, and checkable.

01

Knowledge you can read

Our industry field guide covers how the market actually works — from floating storage economics to the document chain to the eight scam patterns we walk away from. Ask us for it.

02

Intel, not allocations

We don't sell "allocations" — that language marks a scam. We sell introductions to real owners with real parcels, verifiable by IMO and live AIS position.

03

Carriers, not contacts

Every truck we book is vetted before it loads: company registration, goods-in-transit insurance, operating licence, references. Shippers pay for that check.

04

One phone call either way

Need a fuel parcel moved from a discharge port inland? That's a trucking job. Need trucks supplied with diesel? That's a fuel relationship. The two desks feed each other.

Talk to the desk that already did the homework

Fuel cargo or road freight — the first conversation costs nothing and leaves you knowing more than you did.

info@meridianpetroleumgroup.com