Pelorus connects cargo owners, traders, manufacturers, terminals, vessel interests, and transportation providers. We source suitable freight and terminal solutions, negotiate commercial terms, and help move transactions from opportunity through execution — for a single fixture or an ongoing program.
Sourcing capacity, evaluating the market, and negotiating the fixture — for bulk, breakbulk, and project cargo.
A cargo needs a vessel, a barge, a terminal, or an inland connection — or a vessel needs a cargo — and the owner of the requirement doesn't have the market coverage, counterparties, or negotiating bandwidth to put the transaction together on competitive terms.
Cargo owners, traders, manufacturers, and importers with cargo to move — and shipowners, operators, and transportation providers looking for employment for their capacity.
Transactionally, from the first fixture. Engage Pelorus for one shipment or one charter. Where the cargo recurs, the same brokerage work can continue voyage by voyage or under an ongoing arrangement.
U.S. representation for foreign producers, shipowners, operators, and industrial principals.
A foreign principal has product, capacity, or capital aimed at the U.S. market — but no local commercial counterpart to develop cargo and customers, open terminal and logistics doors, and negotiate with U.S. counterparties.
Foreign producers, shipowners, operators, and industrial principals that need a commercial presence in the United States before — or instead of — building a local organization.
Either basis. A single introduction or negotiation can be handled transactionally; a standing representation mandate is scoped to the principal's market objectives.
Ongoing commercial oversight of a recurring freight program — without building an internal department.
A company moves recurring cargo — imports, exports, or an industrial program — and the freight is significant enough to need commercial management, but not enough to justify hiring a chartering and logistics team.
Cargo owners, traders, and manufacturers with recurring volumes across one or more lanes who want experienced freight capability on their side of the table.
Ongoing. Freight management is a continuing engagement, scoped to the program's volume and complexity. It often begins with a single brokered shipment that proves the working relationship.
Transaction-specific advisory where freight meets infrastructure — terminals, greenfield projects, and interim commercial structures.
A principal is evaluating a terminal, entering the U.S. market with physical infrastructure, or standing up a new operation — and needs commercial evaluation, structuring, and interim capability before a permanent organization exists.
Industrial principals, developers, and investors establishing or acquiring marine terminals, bulk storage, transload operations, and related industrial logistics infrastructure.
Per project. Each assignment is a defined, time-bound mandate — from a single terminal evaluation to an interim operating structure that is built, stabilized, and handed over.
Scope of services. Pelorus provides commercial brokerage, chartering support, representation, and freight-management services. Regulated forwarding, customs, documentation, and transportation services may be performed by appropriately licensed counterparties when required. Pelorus is not a carrier, vessel operator, or terminal operator, and does not act as principal to transportation contracts. Company formation, immigration, engineering, tax, and legal matters are coordinated with qualified specialist advisers.
Tell us what you are trying to move, place, source, or develop. The engagement is structured around the scope of the opportunity.