CSA Procurement
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CSA Procurement · since 1997

Ocean freight procurement,
driven by expertise and accountability.

CSA Procurement manages ocean freight for the world's most demanding shippers. Strong carrier networks, bespoke customer solutions. Founded in 1997, we operate from 17 offices worldwide — same team, same lanes, same standards.

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1997
Founded in Switzerland
CHF 1B+
Annual freight handled
465K+
TEU priced per year
17
Offices worldwide
1/3+
Of global green coffee
Heritage

Our heritage is Commodity Supplies. Our future is CSA Procurement. Same team, same lanes, same standards — since 1997.

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Rate desk
What we sell

Ocean freight rates — secured through structured carrier negotiations and kept live all year via rate management, audit, allocations and rolling forecasts.

Global Logistics
Sister business

Freight forwarding execution — bookings, B/Ls, documents, customs and pre/on-carriage. Sold separately.

Control Tower
Sister business

End-to-end visibility, exception monitoring and KPI governance across all of your forwarders.

Cargoo
Underlying platform

The digital backbone that powers our rate desk — Rate Management System, negotiation modules, allocation engine and reporting.

What we sell

One anchor service.
Three add-ons to fit how you operate.

Anchor service
Procurement

Flexible procurement solutions for every operational need — Pooling, Basic and Advanced. Carrier-neutral and supported by dedicated professionals.

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Add-on
+ Execution

Comprehensive shipment management across bookings, vendors and carrier allocation — delivered by proactive and responsive operational teams.

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Add-on
+ Financial Services

Flexible financing structures for freight, local and ancillary charges — designed around your unique business requirements.

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Add-on
+ Administration

One automated invoice across freight, local, customs, warehousing and inland. Clean ledgers, fewer hours chasing line items.

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Industries

Where freight terms become a P&L line item.

We began in soft commodities and today manage more than one-third of the world's green coffee shipments under our freight contracts. That same operating standard extends across every demanding lane we run.

Coffee
1/3+ of global green coffee shipments
Soft commodities
Cocoa, cotton, rice, sugar
FMCG
Food, beverage, household
Retail
Private-label and direct-import programs for customer-facing retail operations. SKU-level visibility, clean cost recon, retail-window delivery, promotion sensitivity.
Manufacturing
Components, finished goods
Apparel
Seasonal, time-critical
Chemical
Hazmat-certified, regulated flows
Pharmaceuticals
Temperature-controlled, audit-ready
Electronics
Launch-window critical
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Growth by reputation

>80% of our customers came to us through recommendation.

Service-led businesses grow at the speed of trust. We're comfortable with that, because we know what it takes to earn your trust and reliably deliver your team's peace of mind.

Why CSA Talk to a real operator
Talk to procurement

Tell us what you ship.
We'll make it happen.

Send us your top trade lanes and typical volumes — an experienced operator will come back with a benchmarked rate, a clear view of how we'd run the work, and a straight answer on which procurement mode fits.

We respond within one business day.