Origination
We look for the party your requirement actually needs: a producer, a refinery, an allocation holder, a term buyer. Sourcing is done against a written brief, not against a circulating offer sheet.
TJFI connects buyers and sellers of physical commodities. We check what a counterparty can document before we put a name in front of anyone, and we are paid only when a cargo moves.
Commodity trading fails on people far more often than on price. Our work is to remove the counterparties who cannot perform, so that the ones who can spend their time on terms instead of on introductions.
We look for the party your requirement actually needs: a producer, a refinery, an allocation holder, a term buyer. Sourcing is done against a written brief, not against a circulating offer sheet.
Company registration, signing authority, evidence of title or allocation, banking relationship, and a track record we can trace. Anything that cannot be documented is treated as absent.
Once both sides are cleared, we introduce them under a signed confidentiality and fee agreement, then stay available until the contract is signed and the first cargo is delivered.
This is the sequence every enquiry goes through, in both directions. Each checkpoint has a condition that ends the discussion. We would rather tell you at checkpoint one than waste a quarter of your year.
Registered company, current extract from its register, and the person we speak to identified with authority to sign.
Stop conditionNo registered entity, or a signatory who cannot be confirmed.We establish whether the party holds the goods, holds the funds, or holds neither. Both sides are told which we are dealing with.
Stop conditionA chain of intermediaries with no identified end party.For a seller: title, allocation, or a contract with the producer. For a buyer: the consuming or reselling operation behind the requirement.
Stop conditionAn offer that exists only as a circulating document.Product specification, quantity, delivery basis, delivery window, and a price mechanism that can be reconciled with the published market.
Stop conditionA discount to market that no seller could sustain.Payment instrument, issuing and confirming banks, inspection company, and who bears the cost of a failed inspection.
Stop conditionA payment structure that asks one side to pay before any independent check.Names are exchanged under a signed agreement covering confidentiality, non-circumvention and our fee. Discussion continues directly between the parties.
Stop conditionRefusal to put the introduction in writing.We only work in markets where we can reach the producing or consuming end directly. Everything else is declined rather than passed on.
Gasoil and diesel to EN 590, jet fuel, fuel oil and bitumen, on FOB or delivered terms.
Granular and prilled sulphur, urea, ammonia and phosphates, in bulk.
Copper, aluminium, iron ore and concentrates, ex works or CIF.
Grains, pulses, sugar and vegetable oils, in bulk or containerised.
If nothing is delivered, we are not paid. That is the whole arrangement.
Our fee is agreed in writing before any introduction, expressed per metric ton or as a percentage of contract value, and payable by the side that mandates us once the goods are delivered and payment has been released. We do not charge retainers, registration fees, listing fees or document fees, and we do not accept a fee from both sides of the same transaction without both parties knowing.
Send the requirement or the availability, with the documents you can already produce. We reply with what is missing, or with a straight no.
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