Cocoa.
Raw cocoa beans from Nigeria, Cameroon and other West African origins, priced against ICE London and offered on the specification a buyer contracts on. EUDR geolocation checked before any cargo is presented.
Cocoa →Sovran Commodities
Raw cocoa beans and raw cashew nuts.
Sovran Commodities is a physical commodity broker specialising in raw cocoa beans and raw cashew nuts (RCN), placing West and East African origin cargo with trade houses and processors in Europe and Asia.
Core business
Two products
Cashew.
Raw cashew nuts in shell from Tanzania and West Africa, offered on outturn with a current cut test on the lot. For processors in India and Vietnam and trade houses in Europe.
Cashew →
Public positions
Indicative · subject to contract
Current positions.
Market note · 5 October 2026 — Cocoa, October 2026: Nigeria and Cameroon heading into the EUDR deadline
Paths
For principals
Suppliers and buyers.
Sovran does not own inventory, charter vessels, or take positions. It structures transactions between verified counterparties, and it stands between them.
For suppliers.
Producers reach vetted institutional buyers across Asia and Europe directly. Interest is qualified inside a week.
Offer supply.For buyers.
Buyers receive verified origin, documented terms, and cargo that arrives. Inspection, finance, freight, and customs are structured under a single mandate and held to it.
State a mandate.
Sectors
Markets covered
Four desks. One network.
01
Agriculture
Soybeans, sesame, groundnuts and coffee, alongside our core cocoa and cashew. Contracts on GAFTA and FOSFA forms where the trade calls for them, delivered to crushers, processors and manufacturers.
02
Gases
LPG, LNG, and propane. Spot and term structures, delivered to distributors, utilities, and industrial offtakers.
03
Construction materials and industrial equipment
Cement, steel and rebar, construction chemicals, formwork and scaffolding systems, roofing and diesel generators, sourced from Europe, Turkey and China for projects in West Africa. Industrial equipment sourced to specification, including refrigeration compressors and automation hardware, new and discontinued.
04
Waste-to-energy and processing technology
Supercritical water gasification reactors and cavitation milling lines. See below.
Waste to energy
SCWG reactors
Organic waste in. Syngas and clean water out.
Sovran structures waste-to-energy projects around supercritical water gasification. The reactors are series-produced in Europe and operating today. Sovran handles the feedstock contract, the offtake, the finance, and the interface with the permitting authority.
374°C · 22.1 MPa
Above water's critical point, organics gasify in a single stage, without combustion.
Feedstock
Any organic stream.
Municipal sewage sludge, industrial wastewater, food-processing effluent, agricultural residues. Liquids feed directly. Solids enter as a water slurry.
Energy
Syngas on site.
A hydrogen and methane fuel gas, produced where the waste already is, for generation, chemical synthesis, or direct combustion.
Water
Treated, not landfilled.
Chemical oxygen demand falls by more than 98 percent through the reactor. Water is recovered and dissolved minerals are collected separately.
Treatment at an operating reactor.
Liquid organic waste is received at operating installations in Europe. Gate terms follow feedstock composition and volume. Send a composition analysis and a monthly tonnage and terms come back inside a week.
Quote a waste stream.A unit on your own site.
Units are produced in series across a range of daily capacities and delivered to site. Feasibility runs on your own feedstock analysis. Reference installations and the full technical dossier are released to qualified project counterparties under NDA.
Request project terms.Fine-milling and activation.
Industrial fine-milling that grinds mineral or organic raw material to around 100 microns and activates the particle surface, turning sand, glass cullet, peat or wheat bran into higher value products for construction, animal feed, fertilisers and biostimulants. Around 5 tonnes an hour from a dry module that fits in one 20 ft container. Trials run on the client's own feedstock.
Discuss a feedstock.
Capabilities
Origination — Terms — Logistics
What a mandate carries.
Origination
Direct relationships.
Producers, refineries, growers, mills, and makers are approached directly at the mill, the farm gate, or the plant.
Terms
On spec. On time.
Negotiated where it matters: assay, moisture, grade, harvest year, certification, packaging, inspection, and incoterms.
Logistics
Cargo that arrives.
Routing, freight, customs, and documentation under one chain-of-custody. The mandate closes when the buyer's warehouse signs.
Process
Mandate to delivery
A process built for institutional counterparties.
Mandate
Volume, grade, origin, port, payment terms, deadline. What cannot be delivered is declined the same day.
Origination
Counterparties are screened before introduction. Origin, capacity, and authority to sell are established first. Inspection is instructed independently.
Structuring
Contract, inspection, finance, freight, and customs. Both sides sign the same paper.
Delivery
Cargo moves under full chain-of-custody. Inspection certificates travel with the documents.
Compliance
ICC protocols
How every transaction is papered.
KYC, sanctions screening, and origin verification on every counterparty.
UCP 600 · URC 522 · INCOTERMS 2020
Documentary credits under UCP 600, collections under URC 522, delivery terms under Incoterms 2020. Standby credits are issued under ISP98 where the structure calls for one.
DLC
Documentary Letter of Credit
SBLC
Standby Letter of Credit
NCNDA
Non-Circumvention, Non-Disclosure Agreement
IMFPA
Irrevocable Master Fee Protection Agreement
SGS
Independent inspection and verification
KYC
Know Your Customer and sanctions screening
Reactor inquiries
In confidence
Start a project.
For municipalities, industrial waste producers, and project developers.
State the feedstock and the volume. Feasibility, gate terms, or a build proposal comes back from an engineer.
Contact
In confidence
Make contact.
For principals and verified intermediaries.
Every inquiry is answered by a person and held in confidence. An incomplete mandate is returned with the gaps marked.