TOI Commodities SA
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Who is our customer
Trans-Oil Group (TOG) is a leading vertically integrated agribusiness group located across Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, and Serbia, offering services such as grain handling, storage, and trading, farming, and oilseed crushing. The company owns a unique distribution and export network in Moldova with extension to the Black Sea region and upstream to the Danube basin. More than 80% of the sales of the Company are exported via large international traders to EU, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and Turkey.
What is our funding objective?
Up to USD 31.3 mln long-term FMO loan (of which USD 15 mln is financed by Building Prospects and the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development) intends to finance the working capital needs for the purchases of commodities from Ukraine. The commodities sourced from Ukraine will be stored either in Reni port in Ukraine or in-land storage facilities in Moldova before export.
Why do we fund this investment?
Due to Ukraine-Russia war and disrupted logistics chain in Black Sea region, Moldova became one of the safest gateways to tranship Ukrainian crop to international markets. TOG’s well integrated distribution and export network in Moldova as well as two grain terminals in Reni Port of Ukraine, enables to increase business volumes from Ukraine. The transaction will contribute to the global food security, since it will finance the origination from Ukraine and thereafter exporting to international markets (especially LICs or LMICs).
What is the Environmental and Social categorization rationale?
FMO’s E&S risk categorization for traders with large processing plants applies a B+ risk category. Business activities include aggregation, distribution, processing, and trading of agro commodities. E&S operational risks and impacts are mostly site-specific with exception of risks of the supply chain. FMO’s Environmental and Social assessments via monitoring and due diligence activities indicate that the investment may have impacts that must be managed consistently with the following IFC Performance Standards: IFC PS1: Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts, PS2: Labor and working conditions, PS3: Resource Efficiency and Pollution Prevention, and PS4: Community Health, Safety and Security are applicable to this project. PS6 (Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Management of Living Natural Resources) is triggered mainly due to the potential indirect impact of the primary supply chain. PS5 (Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement), PS7 (Indigenous Peoples), and PS8 (Cultural Heritage) are considered not applicable to the company operations.
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- Website customer/investment
- https://transoilcorp.com/en/
- Region
- Europe & Central Asia
- Country
- Moldova, Republic of
- Sector
- Agribusiness, Food & Water
- Publication date
- 9/8/2023
- Effective date
- 9/29/2023
- Total FMO financing
- USD 15.00 MLN
- Funding
- FMO NV
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Risk categorization on environmental and social impacts, A = high risk, B+ = medium high risk, B = medium risk, C = low risk
Environmental & Social Category
(A, B+, B or C) - B+