Cremona Logistics Services was built by produce people, for produce people. We exist to take the risk out of importing fruit, vegetables and seafood — quietly, reliably, season after season.
Cremona began in 1998 as a two-person citrus desk in Valencia, shipping Spanish oranges to wholesale markets in the Low Countries. The model was simple and it still is: know the grower, protect the temperature, get the paperwork right, and never promise volume you can’t land.
As customers asked for more — exotics through the winter, grapes out of season, seafood alongside the fruit programme — we grew the origin network rather than the marketing department. Today we operate from Rotterdam with origin desks in Valencia, Berlin and Guayaquil, but the discipline hasn’t changed.
We are deliberately not a household name. Our reputation lives where the trade actually happens: on B2B agro-trading platforms, in the aisles of Fruit Logistica, in customs databases, and in the order books of buyers who’ve worked with us for over a decade.
Perishables punish shortcuts. These are the standards we hold when things go wrong — not just when they go right.
We quote what we can genuinely land in grade and on time. No phantom volume, no surprises on the dock.
Temperature integrity is non-negotiable. Every consignment is monitored and logged from origin to delivery.
We contract directly with growers and audit the farms. Traceability isn’t a feature — it’s the relationship.
Phytosanitary and import documentation is prepared ahead of arrival to avoid demurrage and rejection.
Each account has a dedicated trader who knows your specification, your market and your tolerances.
We run both hemispheres so a short crop in one region is already covered by volume moving from another.
Built the original Valencia citrus desk; still negotiates the key season programmes.
Runs the Rotterdam cold store, the reefer fleet and the European distribution network.
Leads grower relationships across Latin America and West Africa.
Owns food safety, certification and customs clearance end to end.
Our hub is the Waalhaven cold store in the Port of Rotterdam — Europe’s gateway for reefer cargo. Around it sits a network designed to keep produce moving and people close to the source.
Talk to our trade desk about programmes, single shipments or contract sourcing.