Trade Asist TRADE ASIST
International Trade Brokerage
International Trade Brokerage

About Trade Asist

Trade Asist is an international trade brokerage based in Piraeus, working in dried fruit, nuts, table olives and olive oil. We connect buyers with suppliers, and then we run the commercial file that turns a connection into a delivered, paid shipment — which is the part that takes the time.

This page is short, and it is short on purpose. There is a version of a company page that lists founding years, tonnages, certificates and client logos, and in a brokerage most of that is either unverifiable from the outside or borrowed from somebody else's balance sheet. What can honestly be described is how we work, in which role, across which origins, and what we are not. That is what follows.

Commission agent, or principal — and we say which

There are two honest ways to be an intermediary in this trade, and we work in both.

As a commission agent, we bring buyer and supplier together and coordinate the transaction between them. The contract is between them. We are remunerated on commission, and both sides know that from the beginning.

As a principal, we buy in our own name and sell in our own name. The contract with you is with us, and our margin sits inside the price rather than beside it.

Neither role is better than the other; they suit different transactions. A buyer who wants full visibility of the supplier and the underlying price is usually better served by the agency structure. A buyer who wants a single counterparty, a single invoice and one place to address a claim is usually better served by the principal structure. Which of the two applies is decided by your preference and by what the transaction needs, and it is agreed and put in writing before the first offer — not left to be reconstructed from the paperwork afterwards. Ambiguity about an intermediary's role is a standing red flag in commodity due diligence, and there is no reason for us to be ambiguous about it.

Origins follow the requirement

Sourcing follows the buyer's requirement rather than a fixed list. Türkiye and Greece are the two origins we work with most in these products — Türkiye for dried apricots, figs, raisins, hazelnuts and pistachios, Greece for table olives and olive oil — and there is a straightforward reason for that: those are the origins where these particular products are grown at scale, with the grades and formats the export trade is built around.

But the specification decides the origin, not the map. Where the grade, the price point or the certification a buyer needs sits in another origin, we source there and we tell you what changes when we do — the document set, the transit, the control regime at entry and the crop calendar. More on the regions and the season is on the [Origins](/en/origins/) page.

What we are not

We are not a producer. We do not own groves, mills, drying facilities, packing houses or laboratories, and nothing on this site is presented as ours. The photography here shows the products and the regions they come from; it does not show our premises, because a broker does not have those premises, and pretending otherwise is the first thing an experienced buyer would check and the first thing they would find.

We also do not hold the certificates that appear throughout this site. Where BRCGS, IFS, FSSC 22000, organic certification or laboratory accreditation is mentioned, it is always described as something the market requires from a supplier or a packing site — never as something we hold ourselves. Our part is to specify it, request it, verify it and keep it in the file.

What we do have is a method, described step by step in [How a shipment is built](/en/services/), and a preference for saying what a transaction actually requires — including on the occasions when that is not what somebody wants to hear.

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