Trade & advisory between East Africa and Britain.
One corridor, worked in both directions. We buy coffee, cocoa and produce direct from Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania for UK buyers, and we advise companies setting up at either end — market entry, partner vetting, and contracts that clear first time.
Names on our book
The desk, in six lines
Two halves of one business: a desk that buys and ships physical goods, and a consultancy that stands companies up at the other end of the corridor. Every mandate is worked by people who know both ends of the route — the washing station and the warehouse door.
Market Entry & Expansion Consultancy
Business Facilitation & Representation
Trade Facilitation & Brokerage
Origin Sourcing
Import & Export Advisory
Regulatory & Compliance
What we trade
Coffee
Arabica & Robusta, washed and natural
Cocoa
Fermented and sun-dried beans
Fruit & Vegetables
Air and sea freight programmes
Cereals & Flours
Maize, millet, sesame, milled goods
Outbound from Britain we handle machinery, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and renewable energy equipment for East African buyers.
Full product book
We buy from the people who grow it.
Our contracts start at the washing station and the drying yard — with cooperatives in the highlands of Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, and cocoa growers across the region. Buying there means the roaster or manufacturer at the other end gets a traceable lot, the same quality next season, and a line back to the farm. No anonymous blending, and no intermediaries taking a cut of the grower's price.
- Traceable
- Lot, station, season
- Direct
- Grower-level contracts
- Consistent
- Repeatable quality
One route, three desks
London holds the contracts and the UK buyers. Nairobi and Kampala hold the relationships, the quality control and the first mile out of the country.
London
Head office, contracts, UK distribution
Nairobi
Regional trade desk, quality control
Kampala
Cooperative liaison, first-mile logistics
Merchants, not middlemen.
Safari International Trade & Consultancy is a UK-registered trading house working the East Africa–Britain corridor. We take positions we understand, on goods we have inspected, with counterparties we have met. That is the whole method.
More about the house“Their network in Uganda and Kenya made it straightforward for us to establish partnerships across several industries. The local expertise saved us time and kept operations clean from agriculture through to manufacturing.”
Tell us what you need to move.
Origin, commodity, volume and destination is enough to start. You get back availability, indicative pricing and the terms we can work to.