Basis Commodities

What We Do

Basis Commodities provide expert advice and consultancy on food and feed grain procurement, supply chain and risk management, business development and commodity market access. 

With offices in Australia, the Middle East and Asia, our plug in and play business model allows us to hit the ground running and work with your business to establish where we can add the most value, then provide the ongoing support and manpower to execute that strategy. 

Grains & Animal Feed Procurement

Basis Commodities specialises in securing competitive fit for purpose raw materials for global food and feed markets as well as new and emerging niche markets including alcohol, ethanol and biodiesel production. Our knowledge, industry experience and global connections allows us to identify and provide cost-effective solutions to our clients across grains, oilseeds, niche feed and fodder.


With over 100 years combined experience in sourcing, handling, transporting and trading various agricultural commodities around the globe, the Basis Commodities team empowers you with our global network of trusted agricultural commodity suppliers and supply chain and risk management services while providing cost-effective operational support.


Basis Commodities can assist with:


  • Supplier selection
  • Assist in selecting “fit for purpose” raw materials and associated quality control & assurance including inspection
  • Coordinating and executing agricultural supply chain logistics and shipping
  • Introductions and arranging visits to potential suppliers
  • Negotiating pricing, delivery terms and obtaining samples
  • Assess and offer improvement to clients’ commodity procurement strategies and help to manage business risk
  • Grain accumulation services
  • Contract management and global trade execution
  • Technical support

Agribusiness Consultancy and Agency

The Basis Commodities team has worked across all parts of the agricultural supply chain including grain production, logistics, storage and handling, grain marketing, business operations, container packing, agri finance and ocean freight export. We harness this experience to provide insight, project management assistance, business development opportunities and market access across our global network.


We work collaboratively and view ourselves as a part of your business, working toward one goal and designing innovative solutions that exceed expectations. Mutual trust is integral to success and an essential ingredient to our consultancy and agency service offering. The team at Basis Commodities is committed to helping you in a hands-on way from idea inception all the way through to execution. 

Ocean Freight and Marine Insurance

Our knowledge of and network within the ocean freight and insurance sectors provides clients with efficient, time saving and cost-effective export opportunities. This coupled with our local networks of grain suppliers, we can facilitate the entire process from procurement to delivery at final destination.


We help customers to identify and implement significant savings by assisting with the charter and management of container shipments and bulk export vessels, ensuring they are covered for marine cargo and charterers’ liability insurance.


We’ve partnered with HMD Insurance, a principal-owned insurance and risk adviser, committed to building long-term partnerships and delivering perpetual value to clients, to assist our clients directly with managing their ocean freight and marine insurance risks.


Another of our partners is MR Shipping. This relationship allows us to secure export vessels from handy to panamax sizes in a timely and reliable manner, meeting multiple clients export requirements, small and large, all around the world.


Grain Trading and Merchandising

With over 100 years combined knowledge and experience gained working across the agricultural supply chain for companies large and small, the Basis Commodities team empowers clients with tried and trusted approaches to harnessing global grain trading, broking and merchandising. 


One of our core values is our commitment to building successful and enduring relationships with our clients and striving to be a valued part of their success. Our clients value our market knowledge, resourcefulness, ethics, and expertise in identifying and executing new grain trading and merchandising opportunities. We provide trading and risk management advisory specifically focused on:


  • Establishing trading limits, reporting systems and an appropriate risk management framework.
  • Determining and describing price risks, what causes them, then managing those risks by taking a systemic and holistic view through the trade.
  • Establishing targets and how they are measured.
  • The analysis and understanding of market dynamics to help identify and capitalise on that information and make informed purchase decisions.


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