Alkagesta Reports 19% Volume Increase in 2025 Core Trading Operations

Commodities trader Alkagesta registered a 19% expansion in overall trading volumes across its core portfolio during 2025, according to operational data released in its latest financial reporting. The performance reflected a broadened physical market footprint spanning light ends, middle distillates, heavy fuel oils, and emerging trading avenues across global logistics channels.

In the light ends segment, the merchant executed naphtha procurement across Eastern and Central Mediterranean supply hubs, directing physical deliveries toward consumer destinations in Korea, China, Japan, and the wider Far East. Concurrently, the firm's commercial network maintained active gasoline and blending component trades stretching across the Mediterranean region, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.

Within middle distillates, physical flows of gasoil and ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) served as a cross-regional bridge, linking supply centers in the Arabian Gulf, India, and the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) trading hub with discharge markets in Turkiye, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia, and Mediterranean ports.

Portfolio Expansion and Strategy

In the heavy ends sector, the enterprise supplied more than half a million tons of 0.1% ultra-low sulfur fuel oil (ULSFO) into the Mediterranean basin during 2025. This delivery volume supported maritime industry compliance requirements and ongoing operational shifts toward lower-sulfur marine fuels across regional bunkering corridors.

The firm also established new commercial lines to advance portfolio diversification across energy and industrial materials. Specific steps included initiating a Jet A1 distribution operation within NATO's Central Europe Pipeline System, acquiring a French steel trading business, and finalizing preparatory frameworks to launch physical crude oil trading activities starting in 2026.

On the renewables and compliance side, the trading house broadened its used cooking oil (UCO) feedstock origination capabilities to secure supply chains in primary target markets. To support these operations, the company secured ISCC certification, establishing standardized traceability and regulatory compliance across its expanding biofuels value chain, as outlined in the Alkagesta 2025 Annual Report highlights.