Meridian Petroleum Group is a Cape Town brokerage running two desks — fuel cargo across SADC ports, road freight across Southern African corridors. Small by design: narrow, deep, and worth trusting.
Who we are
We sit in the long tail of the cargo market: the parcels, lanes and corridors the large houses do not service. The fuel desk watches 13 SADC ports daily for slow-moving and distressed parcels and brokers them to licensed importers and terminal operators. The freight desk brokers loads across Southern African lanes to carriers it has vetted itself. Both desks run on the same spine: verify the counterparty, paper the deal, execute visibly, keep the record.
A broker and intermediary. We do not take title to cargo or goods, we do not own trucks or vessels, and we do not hold your money. Our product is verified introductions — and the document chain that keeps every party honest.
We do not hold allocations, sit in a layered mandate chain, or represent ourselves as direct to any refinery. If a proposal depends on a double-digit discount to Platts, we are the wrong desk, and you will hear that on the first call rather than the third week.
Saldanha, Cape Town and Durban on the west; the SADC import economy on the north. Cape Town sits in the middle of the routes we work — and the time zone works for both Asian owners and European desks.
Fuel discharged at a port becomes a road freight problem the same week. A fleet that burns diesel is a fuel relationship. The desks feed each other — and each makes the other better at its own trade.
Six conditions we work under, written down so a first conversation can be short. They protect you as much as they protect us.
No fees, bonds or "registration costs" change hands before a deal exists. Ever.
Layered mandates get everyone robbed. Our chains are two deep, maximum, and the principal is always reachable.
Real cargo, including distressed parcels, trades within a few dollars of the benchmark. A proposal that needs a far bigger gap to work does not reach a buyer through us.
Vessels by IMO + live AIS. Carriers by CIPC + insurance + licence. Claims we can't verify don't enter the funnel.
NCNDA first, IMFPA before the introduction does any work. Paper protects both sides of a first conversation.
We stay in our lane: introductions and execution support. You deal with the principal directly under the protections.
Contact
Answered by a person, the same day.
info@meridianpetroleumgroup.com
Owners, buyers, terminals and port agents. Tell us the parcel and the port; we will tell you whether we can place it.
Post a load — three steps, about two minutes, no account. Carriers join the vetted list the same way.
Or email the desk.
Meridian Petroleum Group · Cape Town, South Africa · Acting as broker/intermediary under NCNDA/IMFPA on all introductions.