1. 1975 to 76• Freight Services & Manica Moçambique, Ltd - apprentice as shipping agent –Beginning of a career in the shipping side as Ship ports agent attending crew and all relevant daily requirements while in port –Maputo (ex-Lourenço Marques-Mozambique)<br />76/81• Rennies Shipping Ltd -Shipping Agent- Full duty of a Shipping agent .Securing port operations , i.e – loading and discharging. Also in AFRICA <br />81/83• Navecor, Navegação e Comércio Reunidos S.A.R.L.- Shipping agent- In Portugal at the port of Lisbon, shipping agent with similar responsibilities as above . <br />83/86• Companhia Continental de Cereais Contiluso S.A.R.L- execution & logístic- Executions department at Continental Grain Lisbon office attending to PL 480 tenders and preparing for the liberalization of the Portuguese grain feeds market. <br />86/86• Cargofrete -Agência de Navegação e Comércio- Assumed responsibilities as share holder of a Portuguese shipping and chartering company. <br />86/90• Conagra International(Portugal)- Logistic , commodity Trader- I ´helped to start CONAGRA Lisbon office upon the full liberalization of the Portuguese market on imports of grains and feeds from third countries. <br />90/90• Intermerc.Comércio Exportação e Importação Lda- Logístic, commodity Trader- On the liberalization of the import and exports in Portugal ,several groups such as NUTRIVEST , a well know Portuguese food trading company invited me to embrace a project of SUNSEED imports for their crashing plant from France a department that I succeed to establish. <br />91/95• Unifac, S.A- chartering manager- A group of major compound feeders, such as VALOURO, RAPORAL, VERESSIMO ..etc decide to create a buying house(Trading).My responsibilities on the project were the full FOB executions , that included the chartering of vessel´s from various origins ,i.e –Gulf USA , Duluth Great Lakes on the deep sea and the short sea the European Atlantic.<br />95/98• Maritim - (Portugal) Comércio & Navegação, Lda- chartering manager- A German Flag Owner decided to enter on COA with the Portuguese market, so I accepted to embrace a project that not only was enthusiastic but gave me a opportunity to close a circle on my CV, that was working for a ownership management.<br />98/2011 – Due to financial problems the German MARITIM owner being forced to close operations, declaring bankruptcy iI decide then to put at use my knowledge and contacts and become a business FACILITATOR,” in-house broker” offering to the Portuguese industry the capabilities of seeking FOB /CIF purchases with the full backing of a professional.<br />