See the gap. Move on it.
We connect what you sell with the buyers who have not met it yet.
We trade it — with you, or for you.
Most trade advice ends with a recommendation. Ours ends with a trade.
Two ways to trade with us
Your own trade, under our roof
For people who have spent years in export and want to trade in their own nameA yearly membership. We analyse the target countries for the product you want to trade and build you a buyer portfolio there. You trade with your own money through any company you like — or through BirrPonte, and BirrPonte’s share in it grows with the number of trades we complete together.
Your product, sold by us
For a company with a product that should be selling in EuropeWe buy it with our own capital and sell it into European markets. You are paid on standard trade terms — part on order, the balance against shipping documents — and never have to wait for the product to find its final buyer. What happens next is ours.
How the membership works
- 1Target-country analysis for the product you want to trade.
- 2A buyer portfolio in those markets, built for you.
- 3Your choice: trade with your own money through any company — or through BirrPonte.
- 4Through BirrPonte, BirrPonte keeps a set percentage and pays you your share after tax, through official channels. The percentages are in the membership agreement.
- 5Through BirrPonte, we also pay part of the goods against the documents, when they are ready to load: up to half of the purchase — up to 10,000 dollars on your first trade, 15,000 on your third, 20,000 from your fifth.
- 6Each of these is a decision by BirrPonte, trade by trade, for trades that fit how we work.
What a first year can look like. A member who sold dried fruit for someone else for years joins in January. By spring: a target-country analysis for dried figs and a buyer portfolio in two markets. First trade through BirrPonte: 16,000 dollars of goods; BirrPonte pays 8,000 against the documents when the pallets are ready to load. The member runs the deal; the paperwork is BirrPonte’s. On the third trade BirrPonte’s part can reach 15,000; from the fifth, 20,000.
A kitchen-equipment maker with a line that should be selling in Europe. BirrPonte buys the first container; the maker is paid when it ships, not when it sells; we sell it into European markets. What happens next is ours.
The two ways are built to meet: what a member trades is often what a producer makes. Behind both is the same network — people who know export, our trade data, and BirrPonte’s capital.
This is the part of BirrPonte where we are not advisers. We are a party to the trade, and accountable to the same thing you are: whether it actually sells.
What we earn is written down: a yearly membership fee, and our margin on what we buy and sell. Everything else is in the membership agreement, not on this page.
We look at your product together and see how we would trade it — with you, or for you.
Either way, a small step is enough.
Ali Suat GergerEvery request is read by one of us and taken to the right hands.