Somaliland Livestock Gateway

Seeking $16M equity · $40M programme · Facilitated locally by BHR.

The Somaliland Livestock Gateway is an integrated, export-grade livestock platform — one operator that controls feeding, animal care, certification, processing and transport, and keeps the margins that today go to feed traders, middlemen and Gulf importers.

A profitable market

• Over $1 billion of livestock trade passes through Berbera every year, with almost no value added at origin.
• $465M live exports in 2024 (up 26%), 3.7M head shipped (up 19% in a single year) — about 85% of Somaliland’s exports.
• GCC sheep & goat meat imports hit $3.1B in 2024 (heading to $3.6B by 2035); the Gulf produces only 71% of what it eats.
• Dry-season feed demand is a $1.3B gap — local fodder meets under 30% of it.

Why Berbera

DP World’s world-class port (500k TEU today, 2M planned, ~4M head of livestock a year, a Jebel Ali service every 9 days), the Berbera–Ethiopia corridor opening a second market inland, and three decades of stability with a working livestock rulebook.

One platform, five integrated pillars

• Feeding — a 1,000-ha irrigated fodder estate and a 10 t/h feed mill.
• Care — aggregation centres and a 20,000-head finishing feedlot.
• Quarantine — a 16,500-head export station in Berbera with its own lab.
• Transport — own fleet with a marshalling link to the port, sea and air.
• Processing — a halal abattoir at 1,200 head a day, with cold chain, tannery and rendering.

An RFID traceability spine follows every animal from purchase to buyer, and a by-product loop turns hides, bones, fat and manure into revenue.

The investment at a glance

• Phase 1 · $24M — fodder estate, finishing feedlot, export quarantine, animal care, transport fleet.
• Phase 2 · $16M — halal export abattoir, cold chain, tannery and rendering.
• Base case: 23% target equity IRR, 5.7× equity multiple over 10 years, ~27% annual cash yield at maturity, $60M annual revenue from Year 6, $9.5M EBITDA (16% margin), 18% unlevered project IRR.

The full 30-page investor concept note — market data, phasing, financial model and risk register — is attached above.