Service · Trilingual brokerage
Negotiate, sign, and ship between MENA and Europe in your own language. Native Arabic, fluent Dutch, fluent English — and a residence in the Netherlands.
What we keep seeing
Almost every MENA producer or exporter has the same story: a European opportunity that died in translation. A contract clause read three different ways. A payment-term proposal that came back stripped of context. A discovery call where one side could not read the cultural register the other was operating in.
Most trade brokers solve this with a translator on call. That is not the same thing as a principal who can speak in your language with authority, sign in another, and stand behind both.
EMEA Commerce was built for the second model. Mohammed Sharkawi is Egyptian-Dutch, runs the business in three languages, and engages personally on every deal.
How we help
Pricing, terms, escalation, dispute resolution — handled directly with you in your language, with no broker layer in between.
Commercial agreements drafted and reviewed in EN/AR (or EN/NL) with the same content carrying the same legal meaning in each language.
Beyond words — knowing when a yes means yes, when Ramadan timing affects a deadline, when a Gulf-style commitment differs from a Levantine one.
Dutch residence, KVK registration, EU compliance fluency — the European-side standing your counterparty wants to see.
What this looks like in practice
“Mohammed walked us through every step before we committed. The Arabic-language capability and the EU-side perspective were the difference between another stalled lead and a real corridor.”
— Dutch importer · Rotterdam (Cairo-Rotterdam engagement)
Read the caseFrequently asked
Yes — by WhatsApp, email, or phone. The wizard, the website, and the contracts all work in Arabic.
Yes. Standard practice is bilingual contracts with English as the governing language for EU-side enforceability. Arabic-only or NL/AR variants on request.
Yes. Dutch residence, KVK-registered business, EU VAT. Travel to MENA for higher-value engagements.
No. Pricing is structured around engagement complexity (sourcing vs. market-entry vs. ongoing relationship), not language.
Yes — provided we were involved in the original commercial structuring. Mediating disputes on deals we did not structure is harder and rarely effective.
Working week, Ramadan and Eid timing, Hajj season, and Friday observance are part of the engagement calendar. Deadlines and shipment timing are planned around them, not against them.
Active corridors in Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Jordan. Other Arabic-speaking markets considered case by case.