Alkagesta Reports 19% Volume Increase in 2025 Across Commodity Desks

Alkagesta recorded a 19 percent expansion in overall traded commodity volumes during 2025, according to details released in its latest annual report. The firm attributed the performance to broader activity across its core physical trading desks alongside strategic entries into adjacent markets. Group commercial operations maintained an emphasis on cross-regional flow integration linking European, Mediterranean, and Asian supply corridors. These operational milestones reflect an ongoing effort to deepen integration across diversified global supply chains.

Activity within the light ends division centered on extensive long-haul arbitrage and regional blending operations. Naphtha volumes originated primarily from suppliers in the Eastern and Central Mediterranean, moving onward to buyers across China, Japan, South Korea, and the broader Far East. In parallel, the desk managed regular transactions in finished motor gasoline and blending components across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Mediterranean hubs. These trading routes allowed the group to balance seasonal product imbalances across multiple consuming regions.

Middle distillates and marine fuel desks also handled substantial physical flows over the course of the year. The group channeled gasoil and ultra-low sulphur diesel supplies from India, the Arabian Gulf, and the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp hub into Mediterranean and European end markets, including Turkiye, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova. In the heavy ends sector, Alkagesta delivered more than 500,000 metric tons of 0.1 percent ultra-low sulphur fuel oil into the Mediterranean. These deliveries supported ongoing regional fleet compliance with stricter marine emissions requirements.

Beyond traditional refined product trading, the group integrated several new commercial business units throughout 2025. Alkagesta initiated a Jet A-1 aviation fuel distribution venture operating directly within the Central Europe Pipeline System network utilized by NATO. The company also completed the acquisition of a France-based steel trading firm to establish an industrial metals presence. Concurrently, operational and commercial groundwork was finalized to enable the launch of physical crude oil trading during 2026.

The trading house also scaled up its low-carbon and renewable fuel operations over the twelve-month period. Origination networks for used cooking oil were widened to secure feedstock supplies across key consuming destinations. In addition, Alkagesta secured certification under the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification scheme to verify traceability and regulatory standards throughout its biofuels chain. These measures support the company's broader objective of expanding compliance-aligned energy commodities alongside conventional trading lines.