Analysis before logistics
The corridor, the country and the contract are read before a mode, a vessel or a freight level is treated as the answer.
Home/The Firm
One senior point of accountability.
Since 1996, our team has been fully dedicated to chartering, building long-standing relationships with first-tier clients across the industry. Every engagement is led by a senior member of the team, from the first reading to close-out.
- Dedicated to chartering since
- 1996
- Years in shipping, chartering & project logistics
- 35+
- International shipowners represented
- 13
— Our background
Built on chartering, since 1996.
Since 1996, our team has been fully dedicated to chartering, building long-standing relationships with first-tier clients across the industry. That hands-on commercial experience, gained over decades of executing and managing transactions, is the foundation of our advisory work today: senior judgement, disciplined risk control and a proven ability to execute.
The team's experience began in maritime agencies and dry-cargo brokerage, negotiating and fixing bulk cargoes throughout South America — the grounding in charter parties, voyage calculations and freight markets that our advice still rests on.
Over the years we have represented international shipping lines, coordinated breakbulk and project cargo and run long-term logistics programmes in steel, mining, energy and infrastructure for exporters, importers, EPC contractors and industrial clients — across heavy-lift, breakbulk, multipurpose, bulk and offshore tonnage.
The team also develops chartering and maritime-transport training for executives and specialists, and has lectured at the Argentine-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, on the Online Chartering Course and at Universidad Austral (“Freight on War Scenarios”).
“Logistics is a strategic business function, not a transportation service.”
— Background
Three decades in chartering, now in advisory.
Each stage added a capability the firm now draws on: agency operations, chartering, brokerage, then project logistics.
- 1990–1992
Ship agency & charteringVapores / Fertimport (Bunge), Argentina
Maritime agency, vessel operations, grain exports and chartering.
- 1992–1995
Dry-cargo charteringAgencia Marítima Internacional
Dry bulk, freight negotiation and long-term chartering contracts.
- 1995–1996
BrokerageSamtrans Marítima
Large-volume grain and by-product shipments.
- 1996–
Chartering & project logisticsFull-time chartering desk
International maritime brokerage and project logistics for industrial, mining, energy and infrastructure clients, and long-standing relationships with first-tier clients across the industry.
- 2026–
AdvisorySZ &
Advisory practice in shipping, chartering, freight forwarding and project logistics.
— How the practice works
One executive lead, specialists by operation.
Specialists are engaged according to the complexity, scale and location of each project, without imposing an oversized organisation on the client. The practice keeps the integration and the single point of contact.
Senior continuity
The same senior adviser stays with the decision from feasibility through procurement, execution and close-out.
Independent advice
Recommendations are made in the client's interest alone. Suppliers are compared on documented technical and commercial criteria, and the rationale for each recommendation is recorded.
Evidence on the record
Assumptions, interfaces and exposures are written down, so the project team can challenge them and act on them.
Port specialists
Terminal suitability, berth capacity, surface strength, storage, land access, productivity and port–vessel–cargo compatibility.
Marine surveyors & naval experts
Vessel, hold and deck inspections, lifting gear, certificates, stowage and lashing, stability and damage analysis.
Pilots & navigation
Access channels, drafts, currents, tides, turning basins, berthing and tug requirements.
Bathymetry & hydrography
Depth confirmation for channels, berths, anchorages, offshore areas and river crossings.
Structural & civil engineers
Bridge, culvert and pavement assessments along the route, and the design of reinforcements, bypasses and temporary works.
Environmental & permitting
Environmental assessments of routes, works and river crossings, and the permits each of them requires.
Institutional liaison
Provincial and municipal authorities, road agencies, escorts and the communities along the route.
Legal & contractual
EPC, charter-party, transport and offshore contracts, with specialist maritime counsel.
Applied AI
An in-house team building tools for documents, offers, contracts and risk — support for professional judgement, not a substitute.
— Where the record sits
South America first, with global origins.
The operations on the record were delivered into South America from China, India, Finland, Bulgaria, Europe and the United States; into Asia; and out of South America to Italy and the US East Coast.
- 01
South America
Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Venezuela: energy, mining, hydropower, industrial and infrastructure cargo, with the inland and border conditions that go with them.
- 02
Asia and global origins
Hydropower delivered to Malaysia and the Philippines; pipe, plants and rolling stock sourced from China and India; equipment from Finland and Bulgaria.
- 03
Mediterranean & North Africa
The region where the practice is developing its next mandates, around marine procurement, port capability and customs.