❲ Market · Most exported ❳
Africa.
Africa is our heaviest market. Coffee cooperatives, cocoa exporters and grain handlers across East and West Africa take regular containers of food-grade VOT-treated bags and standard hessian sacks. Hessian for produce-wrap and retail packaging tracks alongside.
- Position
- #1 market
- Ports served
- 7
- Primary line
- Food-grade jute bags (VOT)
- Cases on file
- 3
— Product mix
What ships into Africa.
Shares are qualitative — which lines we run regular container volume on into this region, not a financial breakdown. Buyer-specific specifications kept private.
- Food-grade jute bags (VOT)90%
- Hessian sacking bags75%
- Hessian cloth60%
- Raw jute25%
- Jute yarn15%
— Use-case majority
What buyers in Africa are sourcing for.
Green coffee
VOT food-grade bags meeting contact requirements for green coffee, with grade certification accompanying every container.
Cocoa & raw commodities
Heavy-construction sacking (B-Twill, Heavy Cees, DW Flour) for bulk commodity transport — grain, sugar, fertiliser, cement.
Retail produce wrap
Decorative and food-adjacent hessian for produce-wrap and retail packaging into regional supermarket supply chains.
— Bag programme
The jute bags we ship into Africa.
Two B-Twill grain bags and two 50 kg sacking bags make up the regular African programme. The grain bags carry 80–90 kg and ship food-grade (VOT) or mineral-oil treated as standard.
Standard B-Twill jute bag
Grain · 80–90 kg- Size
- 44 × 26.5 in
- Weight
- 2.25 lbs (1,010 g)
- Porter × shots
- 6 × 8
- Finish
- Hemmed · Heracle sewn · 3 blue stripes down the middle
- Packing
- 300 bags / iron-bound bale
- Container
- 65 bales / 20 ft
Binola B-Twill jute bag
Grain · 80–90 kg- Size
- 44 × 26.5 in
- Weight
- 2 lbs (907.8 g)
- Porter × shots
- 6 × 7
- Finish
- Hemmed · Heracle sewn · 3 blue stripes
- Packing
- 300 bags / iron-bound bale
- Container
- 70 bales / 20 ft
50 kg sacking bag — standard
50 kg- Size
- 38 × 26.5 in
- Weight
- 1.95 lbs
- Porter × shots
- 6 × 8
- Container
- 72 bales / 40 ft
50 kg sacking bag — light
50 kg- Size
- 38 × 26.5 in
- Weight
- 1.75 lbs
- Porter × shots
- 6 × 7
— Cloth programme
Hessian cloth into East Africa.
This quality of hessian cloth is exported to Uganda and Tanzania from Bangladesh.
Plain-weave hessian cloth
Export · Uganda & Tanzania- Measurement
- 45 in × 45 in
- Weight
- 11 oz / yd
- Porter × shots
- 11 × 12
- Weave
- Plain
- Per bale
- 1,000 yards
- Container
- 50 bales / 20 ft
— Shapes of work
Anonymised cases from Africa.
Out of respect for our buyers' competitive position we don't name them on the website. The shapes below describe the kind of work we run; receiving teams are happy to share their experience privately on request.
East Africa · Food-grade VOT bags
A coffee cooperative running multi-container monthly volume on VOT-treated 50-kg bags, food-grade certified, custom-stencilled with cooperative branding.
West Africa · Cocoa sacking
A cocoa exporter taking heavy-cees sacking, branded for the receiving European chocolate manufacturer, container loads timed to the harvest window.
Southern Africa · Hessian cloth
A produce-pack distributor sourcing 290–440 g/m² hessian for citrus and avocado wrap into supermarket supply chains.
— Let's open the conversation
Source your next shipment.
Send a specification, a target quality, a quantity — or simply a question about what's possible. We respond within one business day, in clear English, with sample availability and an indicative quote.
- Office
- Global Jute Trading Ltd
43 Dilkusha C/A, 4th Floor
Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh - globjute@gmail.com
Replies within one business day - Telephone
- +880 1713 009508
WhatsApp available