Marine Trade Finance originates short-tenor maritime trade receivables for debt funds and credit facilities seeking collateralised, self-liquidating trade finance assets with identifiable underlying debtors.
MTF finances the running costs of owners, operators and charterers, and turns their suppliers' invoices into working capital. On both sides the asset is identical: short-tenor, self-liquidating trade credit against an identified commercial shipping debtor. Tenors run 30 to 90 days; the receivable is born on delivery and extinguished when the debtor pays.
Physical suppliers are paid within days because they cannot carry the terms. Owners and operators pay in months because fuel is their largest single cost. That gap, structural and ignored by banks below a certain ticket, is the market MTF serves.
MTF originates, structures and services. Capital comes from third-party debt facilities, matched to the debtor, the tenor and the jurisdiction. MTF takes no balance sheet risk on the underlying receivables.
Each facility sits against a defined, delivered transaction and an identified commercial debtor. The tenor is fixed at origination. The receivable self-liquidates when the debtor pays.
Every facility is built to protect the funding partner's capital. Diligence and structure come before funding.
Documentation that lines up, the right structure, terms that fit how the vessel trades.
Counterparties, beneficial owners and vessels checked against OFAC, EU, UN and UK sanctions lists before any deal funds.
Each receivable sits against a named commercial debtor and a delivered transaction. No blind risk, no residual.
The same panel funds the owner who buys and the supplier who sells. Switch the view.
Fernando Tirado is the founder of Marine Trade Finance. He works across shipping, bunkering and trade finance in EMEA, MENA and the Americas, originating and structuring short-tenor maritime receivables and placing them with an external panel of funding partners.
We originate recurring short-tenor maritime receivables for debt funds and credit facilities seeking self-liquidating trade finance assets. If you run a trade finance or specialty finance book and want to see the deal flow and the underwriting, write to us.