Ships Agency and Brokering

Within Victoria Group, our Sanders Stevens business has a long tradition of providing a full range of professional ships agency and brokering services.

Sanders Stevens has extensive experience of efficient ship chartering, especially on European and Baltic trade lines. Our extensive knowledge enables us to  successfully bring together charterers – with cargoes to ship – with the owners of suitable vessels to ship them. We broker agreements for a huge variety of cargoes, ensuring their smooth transportation around the world.

All Victoria Group Ports are inventory-linked ports (ILPS). Meaning direct access to HMRC customs control systems. This allows for quick electronic clearance of goods when they arrive at the port. Victoria Group has invested significantly in our own in-house bespoke software – Agency, Port Management and Transport System (APMTS). It facilitates secure EDI (Electronic Data Interface) between warehousing, customers and end users – effectively providing a safe interface not only between the Group and its customers, but also between our customers and their own customers.

Victoria Group is a Company member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, (providing the highest standards of professional service to the shipping industry), and has representation on the Institute’s Federation Council – and on Sea and Water, an independent association promoting the movement of goods by sea and inland waterways.

We can therefore offer not only the highest standards of professional service, but also a full range of the most up-to-date and informed opportunities available. We are also authorised collectors for Trinity House.