About us

Twenty-two years of moving food the difficult way — documented.

Sentra International is a privately held food import and export house headquartered in Hyderabad, India, with owned offices in Dubai, Singapore, New Jersey, Rotterdam and London.

Quality control technicians inspecting grain samples in a processing facility

Our approach

Sourcing is a control problem, not a purchasing one.

We buy at farm gate and mandi level through long-standing aggregator relationships in 14 states, which means we know the cluster, the season and the treatment history of the lot before it enters a warehouse. Every intake is sampled and held until the lab clears it.

Rejected lots are diverted to domestic channels rather than blended into export stock. It costs us margin. It is also why our claim ratio has stayed under 0.4% for six consecutive years.

Milestones

How we grew

  1. 2004

    Founded in Hyderabad as a single-commodity basmati rice exporter serving the Gulf.

  2. 2009

    First ISO 22000 certification; spice and pulse divisions added.

  3. 2013

    Dubai trade desk opened at JAFZA to serve Middle East and African importers.

  4. 2017

    Singapore APAC hub and the first IQF cold-chain programme go live.

  5. 2021

    US FDA foreign facility registration and New Jersey import office established.

  6. 2024

    Rotterdam EU gateway opened; BRCGS Grade AA achieved across three plants.

22

Years in food trade

48

Countries shipped

6,200+

Containers per year

12

Active certifications

Where we operate

OfficeCountryFunctionTime zone
HyderabadIndiaHead Office & SourcingGMT+5:30
DubaiUAEMiddle East & Africa Trade DeskGMT+4
SingaporeSingaporeAPAC Distribution HubGMT+8
New JerseyUnited StatesNorth America Import & FDA ComplianceGMT-5
RotterdamNetherlands (EU)European Union GatewayGMT+1
LondonUnited KingdomUK Sales & Retail ProgramsGMT+0
Aerial view of a container terminal

"A container is only as good as the document set travelling with it."

— Operating principle, since 2004