Write it down
If it happened to the cargo, it is an event with a time and a place. No status is set by inference.
Freight is a promise business.
Paramount was built by people who got tired of finding out about a delay from the customer. So we built the company around the event trail first and the sales pitch second.
2009Founded, Rotterdam
Who we are
Three thousand people, one operating standard.
We move 2.4 million consignments a year across six modes, from a single pallet of spares to 12,000-tonne project cargo. What holds it together is not the fleet — most of it is not ours — but the rule that every handover is written down and published to the customer unedited.
- Independent and privately held — no carrier owns our routing decisions.
- ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and AEO-F certified across our own gateways.
- GDP-compliant pharma lanes audited annually by a third party.
- IATA CASS, FIATA and BIFA member.
Leadership
Ifeoma Adeyemi-Kraus
Group Chief Executive
“A freight business is only worth what its promises are worth. We would rather tell a customer at 09:00 that a box has rolled than let them find out at the quay.”
Twenty-two years across ocean carriers, forwarding and contract logistics. Built Paramount's control-tower model after a decade running trade-lane operations between Asia and Northern Europe.
How we work
Four rules we do not bend.
Publish it unedited
The customer sees the same timeline the control tower works from, including the ugly parts.
Own the handover
A partner carrier does not become an excuse. The file stays ours until it is signed for.
Say it early
A delay told on the day it becomes likely costs a fraction of one discovered at the door.
Come and work on it.
We hire people who would rather make the bad call visible than let it stay quiet. Open roles across operations, compliance, commercial and technology.