Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at Vallis Commodities! With 2017 drawing to a close, we mark the end of another successful year for Vallis. 2017 has seen our operational reach expanding, most notably in Egypt, Djibouti, Mauritania, Rwanda, Somalia, Somaliland, and South Africa. One of our defining achievements of the year is the growth in business for our Marine and Cargo Services. This year, we haRead More
I am pleased to announce that VTAS has now completed its first Ammonium Nitrate (AN) discharge in Walvis Bay, Namibia. This is the first AN discharge in Walvis Bay in 6 years, after a ban was put in place by the Namibian Explosives Team and NAMPORT (Namibian Port Authority). VTAS conducted discharge supervision services and live reporting on the vessel discharge. The VTAS live reporting interface provides details of Read More
I am pleased to announce that Vallis has taken the first steps towards establishing its presence in Somaliland. To mark this progression, we have put together an in-depth report on Somaliland. This country report has been produced by Ruby Newton, who has recently joined the Head Office. Somaliland Country Report This report and other Vallis reports can also be found in the Research section of our website. Please get Read More
Discharge of Vallis stock at Aqaba Port onto trucks destined for Amman On the 30th August 2017, the Jordanian interior ministry announced the reopening of the Iraqi-Jordanian border, known as Tarbil in Iraq and Karameh in Jordan. The border had been closed to commercial traffic since July 2015 in response to increasing financial demands from ‘Islamic State’ operating in Anbar Governate, eastern IraRead More
We are pleased to announce that we have added French as a language option to our websites: www.VallisCommodities.com and www.VallisTAS.com. This is now the third language option, after English and Arabic. Vallis is currently conducting over 40% of its business with Francophone countries. The addition of the French websites is part of our plans to make our online platform more accessible. Switching between languages iRead More
We are pleased to announce that our 2 websites: www.VallisCommodities.com and www.VallisTAS.com now provide its visitors the option of accessing the content in Arabic, as well as English. Vallis is currently conducting over 25% of its business with Arabic speaking countries. As we expect this number to grow in the future, the decision to make our platform accessible in Arabic is a welcome enhancement to our sites. WeRead More
Our operations continue to expand in Egypt. We have now set up our own Marine Surveying department and we are building a strong track record with our fumigation services. Also, we continue to expand inspection services to new customers and products. Our partner HR company ‘Target’ assisted with our ‘Annual Staff Communications Meeting’ which has just been held in Alexandria. It was attended byRead More
We are pleased to announce that Vallis has recently started a new operation in Kigali, Rwanda, for sugar. Vallis Commodities has handled more than 2.3 million tonnes of sugar since our first operation with the commodity in 2006. We have conducted major sugar operations in many countries across Africa and the Middle East. Sugar is one of the most important commodities for the economy of Rwanda and demand for it is risRead More
A team from Vallis recently visited the head office of ECOWAS’s ‘Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food’ in Lome, Togo. Our delegation included Rob Reay-Jones, Head of Compliance from our UK head office, and Paul Occansey and Stephen Emeka, our Country Managers for Togo and Benin, respectively. Vallis has been working for this Togo based ECOWAS unit in inspection roles and we met with Egnonto Koffi-Tessio, ‘CoordonRead More
I am pleased to announce that VTAS has now completed its first coal sampling on a vessel in Djibouti. VTAS conducted initial and final draft surveys and the sampling of the coal in accordance with our ISO 9001:2015 certified standards. A photographic report detailing this process can be found at this link. Please get in touch if you would like more information on this or any of the services that VTAS provides.Read More