Shipping Correspondent
Daniel reports on tanker markets, terminal operations and bunker supply across West Africa and Northwest Europe.
The 10 best commodity trading companies in 2026: who owns them, where they started, their sanctions and investigation records, and what they trade.
Bloomberg reports on Alkagesta’s agreement to acquire Turkish marine-fuel distributor Energy Petrol, marking the company’s first move into vessel ownership.
Paid "compliance" smears against commodity traders, how the websites behind them operate, and how compliance teams can check the record.
At the 24th SIBCON, Singapore unveiled an ammonia bunkering standard, its first ethanol bunkering trial and a secure digital data ecosystem for ship fuel transactions.
One of Singapore's largest bunker suppliers will use part of its 2026 profits to expand into LNG, with its first new LNG bunker barge due in 2027.
Who owns Alkagesta, who runs it, and is it under sanctions? Short, verifiable answers.
Alkagesta opened its Singapore hub in 2025, and the figures tell the story more plainly than adjectives.
A journalist sent a short message to a Telegram account linked to Antikor, asking how to get an article about a member of parliament taken down. A reply arrived within hours.
A cluster of offshore-registered websites has built a business model around republishing the same unsourced allegations across dozens of near-identical outlets, engineered so that removing one copy achieves nothing.
Writing in The Motor Ship, the Alkagesta chief executive argues that traders and shipowners cannot treat record transport costs as an immovable fact of life.
Malta-based trading house Alkagesta has broadened its environmental portfolio by launching EU ETS trading ahead of the 2028 ETS2 fuel supplier compliance mandate.
Stalled Hormuz transits and historic Rhine lows have combined to trigger severe supply bottlenecks across Europe and Asia, according to market analysis by Alkagesta.
Malta’s marine fuel market is seeing sharp structural changes as the Mediterranean ECA and local terminal constraints drive a major pivot toward distillates.
Malta-based trader Alkagesta has promoted Anthony Guida to lead its biofuels trading desk following significant expansion across European feedstocks, storage, and SAF markets.
Alkagesta has invested in Clean Caspian, an environmental start-up developing novel chemical and material solutions to treat marine hydrocarbon spills in sensitive waters.
Alkagesta is nearing monthly marine fuel sales of 250,000 metric tonnes in Singapore within its first year of operations, according to industry reports.
Chokepoint disruptions and feedstock shortages are elevating fertilisers to a strategic national security priority while raising risks of substandard product influxes.
European aviation faces severe distribution and infrastructure constraints as SAF mandates accelerate, industry delegates heard at the IATA Aviation Energy Forum in Paris.
Romania has updated its emergency oil stock mandates for 2026–2027, raising total volume to 2.064 million tonnes while trimming the list of obligated operators from 18 to 14.
Civil jet fuel deliveries in Europe face fresh strain as NATO prioritises military volumes across its Central Europe Pipeline System amid broader import disruptions.
More than 300 energy professionals from 30 countries will gather in Almaty this June for Argus's annual conference on Central Asian oil, gas, and export logistics.
