GBC Consulting works with traders, owners, terminals and shippers on the decisions that sit between a barrel and its buyer: routes, contracts, vessels, costs and compliance. Independent, hands-on, and built on operational experience rather than slide decks.
Most problems in this business do not stay inside one department. A demurrage claim is a commercial problem, an operational problem and a contractual one at the same time. We work across all three.
Support for physical trading desks and buyers who need a clear view of price exposure, counterparty risk and contract terms before the cargo is fixed.
From vessel selection to the closing of the voyage account. We sit on your side of the fixture and keep the operational detail in view.
What happens after the ship berths. Storage, onward movement and the paperwork that decides whether the cargo clears on time.
Every engagement follows the same four stages, whether it lasts three weeks or a full trading season. You always know which stage you are in and what it costs.
A working session to define the question, the constraints and the decision that has to be made. No proposal before we understand the trade.
We review contracts, routes, rates and operational data, and talk to the people who run them day to day. Findings come with the numbers attached.
Options, costed and ranked, with the risks stated plainly. You get a recommendation, not a menu of possibilities to sort through yourself.
We stay on through execution: negotiations, fixtures, terminal set-up or the first shipments, and hand over documentation your team can use.
Cargo, vessels and regulatory regimes differ enough that experience does not transfer automatically. These are the segments we know from the inside.
Crude oilSourcing, blending economics and voyage planning.
Refined productsGasoil, jet, gasoline and fuel oil movements.
Chemicals & base oilsParcel tankers, tank cleaning and compatibility.
LNG & LPGTerm supply, small-scale distribution and bunkering.
Dry bulkCoal, biomass, fertilisers and agricultural cargo.
Ports & terminalsThroughput, tankage and berth productivity.
Inland freightBarge, rail and road across the European corridors.
Renewable fuelsBiofuel blending, certification and mass balance.
GBC Consulting was set up to give owners, traders and industrial buyers advice that is not tied to a broker's commission or a carrier's network. We take no position in the cargo we advise on and hold no shipping interests of our own.
The team combines trading, chartering and terminal backgrounds, which is deliberate: the same cargo looks different from a trading screen, a bridge and a loading rack, and a workable answer has to survive all three views. We work in small teams, report to one named contact and keep the client's own people involved so the knowledge stays in the business after we leave.
Assignments range from a two-week second opinion on a charter party to a full review of a supply chain across several countries. Fees are fixed per stage and agreed before the work starts.
Send a short outline of the cargo, the route and the deadline. You will get a reply within one working day, and a first call costs nothing.