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Egypt Globe Group
Case Study

50,000 MT cement to East Africa under L/C

How Egypt Globe Group shipped 50,000 MT of CEM I 42.5N to a Tanzanian importer over Q3 2025 — Damietta loading, Mombasa discharge, full L/C documentation.

01

The brief

A long-established Tanzanian construction-materials importer needed
50,000 MT of CEM I 42.5N over Q3 2025, delivered CIF Mombasa, paid by
sight L/C from a regional African bank. The customer's previous supplier
had missed three consecutive shipments — they wanted a partner who
could deliver on schedule and present clean L/C documents on the first
attempt.

02

The challenge

  • Volume scale — 5 vessel parcels of ~10,000 MT each, sequenced

monthly through Q3

  • Document precision — bank required exact match across Proforma,

Commercial Invoice, Packing List, B/L, and Egyptian Chamber of
Commerce-stamped Certificate of Origin

  • Quality consistency — buyer needed every batch to hit Blaine ≥

3500 cm²/g and 28-day compressive ≥ 42.5 MPa

  • Lead time — first vessel had to sail within 3 weeks of LC opening
03

How we executed

  • Sourcing — committed three Egyptian cement plants in parallel for

redundancy: lead supplier in Beni Suef + backups in Suez and Aswan

  • Loading port — Damietta picked over Alexandria for the lower

inland trucking distance from the Beni Suef plant

  • Per-batch QC — our Damietta operations team hosted TÜV Austria / SGS PSI on

every parcel; CoAs filed within 48 hours of vessel sailing

  • L/C documentation — Cairo office prepared the bank pack 7 days

before each B/L, with a dry-run review against the LC text to catch
document discrepancies before issue

04

The numbers

Total volume
50,000 MT
Vessel parcels
5
Lead time on first vessel
19 days from LC opening
L/C document acceptance rate
5/5 first-presentation, zero

discrepancies

Average Blaine across the 5 parcels
3,580 cm²/g
Average 28-day compressive
44.2 MPa
05

What the buyer said

"Three years of supplier rotations and Egypt Globe is the only one whose first shipment matched the LC text. We're extending to calendar-year 2026 with quarterly volumes."
06

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07

Quality at the Core — how this shipment was verified

Every consignment Egypt Globe Group ships passes the same five verification gates. The evidence set below is what the buyer in this case study received; it is the same set issued on every contract, because the group has operated with an internal Quality Assurance division since its 2014 incorporation and treats a lot outside specification as a lot that does not load.

Verification chain5 gates · every consignment
  1. 1

    Gate 1

    Extraction / source

    EvidenceSource sampling on every production lot

    Source laboratory · per lot

  2. 2

    Gate 2

    Processing

    EvidenceWashing, screening, drying, grading or milling verified against the contract specification

    Plant QC · per batch

  3. 3

    Gate 3

    Port laboratory

    EvidenceFull analysis against the contract specification; Certificate of Analysis or Mill Test Certificate issued before the Bill of Lading

    EGG port QC lab · per shipment

  4. 4

    Gate 4

    Independent inspection

    EvidencePre-shipment sampling, witness testing, draft survey or tally; sealed retained samples held 90 days

    TÜV Austria / SGS / Intertek / BV · per vessel

  5. 5

    Gate 5

    Destination acceptance

    EvidenceCoA cross-referenced with the buyer's arrival laboratory; retained samples arbitrate any variance

    Buyer laboratory · on discharge

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