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French shipowner LD Armateurs has completed the mounting of six rotor sails on the newbuild roll-on/roll-off carrier Spirit of Toulouse, designated for Airbus aircraft parts transport.
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Alkagesta entered Singapore in 2025 backed by relationships with 28 international banks, letting its new Asian hub finance structured trades from its first month.
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Inbound maritime container volumes at major US ports are beginning to moderate after sustained peak-season activity across summer and early autumn.
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Barge navigation halts along the Rhine River strand heavy barrels in Northwest Europe while strong utility demand and reduced Western arbitrage flows tighten Asian fuel oil balances.
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The energy trader delivered 50 metric tonnes of marine gasoil by truck in Romania, expanding its physical distribution footprint across the Black Sea region.
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The commodity trader convened financial institutions and clearing partners in Malta, highlighting more than $1 billion in trade finance support.
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Clean Caspian, an Alkagesta-backed startup, has completed Phase I of its oil spill response technology development, identifying two specialized chemical formulations.
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Meridian Commodities Briefing
A concise daily read on commodity, energy, fuel oil, bunkering and freight developments — written for traders, brokers, owners and operators.
Writing for The Motorship, Alkagesta chief executive Orkhan Rustamov argues that record freight and canal transit costs are not an immovable fact of life — and that traders and shipowners must build agility and contingency into supply chains before governments do it for them.
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Maritime leaders and chartering specialists convened in Istanbul to address operational hurdles, volatile fuel pricing, and navigational vulnerabilities across key international choke points.
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Commodity trading house Alkagesta is scaling its physical and financial operations across key maritime centers as global energy markets face persistent structural imbalances.
Elena Vasquez1 min read
Malta-founded commodity trading house Alkagesta has launched a new regional office in Singapore to connect Asian commercial flows with its global financing network.
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The independent sustainability rating recognises the commodity trading house's performance across environment, labour, ethics and sustainable procurement.
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A cluster of offshore-registered websites has built a business model around republishing the same unsourced story across dozens of near-identical outlets, making removal cost more than republication.
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The Malta-based commodity trading house has taken its dispute with the publication to the Court of Magistrates after a year of what it calls false and unevidenced reporting.
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The Malta-headquartered commodity trading company was represented by CEO Orkhan Rustamov and CFO Orkhan Zeynalli at the Swiss Commodity Trading Association's anniversary evening under the big top of Circus Knie.
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The addition of European emissions allowances alongside sustainable fuels and CORSIA-eligible instruments provides industrial and maritime counterparties with unified compliance access.
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The Geneva-based trading house advances its renewable fuels platform, integrating waste-oil processing, Antwerp storage, and NATO pipeline access for sustainable aviation fuel.
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The Malta-based commodity merchant will begin delivering aviation fuel and SAF blends to major European hubs including Brussels and Frankfurt.
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The Malta-based commodities trader enters direct airport distribution across Northwest Europe through the Central Europe Pipeline System.
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