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Web design & development

Care Trading Inc.

Company
Care Trading Inc.
Location
Newcastle, New South Wales
Year
2024
The home page on a wide screen, with the headline over an aerial photo of a loaded container ship and three region tabs under the brand card.

Care Trading Inc. is an ocean trade and commodities group working out of the Port of Newcastle. It buys, ships and sells through several operating businesses: agricultural goods, consumer products and paper for recycling, with joint ventures and investments alongside them. Its counterparties are wholesalers, shipping agents and buyers who already work in trade. The head office is small, so the website does a lot of the explaining.

The problem was the shape of the group: one company, several unrelated trades, and no obvious way for a visitor to tell which one they had landed on. So the navigation is built around the businesses. A dropdown names each one, a card for each sits on the home page, and every card has a page behind it. The home page states the group position once, and the rest of it belongs to the divisions.

An About page carries the group story and the portfolio of operating businesses, joint ventures and investments. A new counterparty asks about process, risk and continuity before a first shipment, and a strengths section covers those. Careers and contact sit on their own pages. The phone layout keeps the same order as the desktop one, so a buyer reading it on a wharf sees the divisions in the same sequence.

The site does not try to sell ocean freight to someone who does not already buy it. The job was to let a broker, a supplier or a job applicant find the right division and the right contact without making a phone call first.

Two phones on a dark green background. The left one shows the mobile home page with stacked cards for the operating businesses, the right one is face down.The company wordmark in white above a photograph of stacked orange shipping containers.
A laptop showing the About Us page, with the heading over an aerial photo of a container ship and a What We Do section underneath.
A photograph of volunteers packing cartons and tinned goods onto pallets in a wet car park.An aerial photograph of a loaded container ship under way on open water.
Two mobile screens side by side: the top of the home page on the left, and the About Us page with a Check Our Businesses button on the right.A photograph of a worker in a cap standing in a warehouse aisle in front of racked pallets.
A tilted laptop on a plain background showing the home page, with a hand resting on the trackpad.
A laptop on a shelf showing the Our Strengths section, with three image cards and a Learn More button.A five-colour swatch strip laid across a black and white photograph looking up between shipping containers.

Scope of work

  • Home page built around the operating businesses
  • Businesses dropdown with a page per division
  • About and What We Do pages
  • Strengths section with process, risk and continuity cards
  • Careers and contact pages
  • Mobile layout
  • Colour palette and logo lockups

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