大宗商品贸易商Alkagesta同意收购土耳其船用燃料公司Energy Petrol，从而首次获得属于自己的船只，并扩大其在地中海船用燃料市场的份额。
Commodity trader Alkagesta agreed to buy Turkish shipping-fuel company Energy Petrol, gaining its first vessels and boosting its share of the Mediterranean bunker market.
根据这笔交易，总部位于马耳他的Alkagesta将从船用燃料贸易扩展到将其分销给最终用户。大宗商品贸易商正日益收购那些它们传统上一直为其供货的企业，以在竞争对手中获得优势并提振利润。
The deal will see Malta-based Alkagesta expand from trading bunker fuel to distributing it to end-users. Commodity traders are increasingly buying up businesses they’ve traditionally supplied to gain an edge over rivals and bolster profits.
Alkagesta投资与资产管理董事总经理阿萨德·胡谢伊诺夫（Asad Huseynov）在接受采访时表示，这笔收购将为未来收购较大船只的任何举措“奠定基础”。他说，该公司也不排除投资“其他基础设施类资产”，并会考虑码头。
The acquisition will “lay the ground” for any future move to buy larger vessels, Asad Huseynov, Alkagesta’s managing director of investments and asset management, said in an interview. The company is also not ruling out investing in “other infrastructure-style assets” and would consider terminals, he said.
胡谢伊诺夫表示，这笔已获得土耳其反垄断监管机构批准的交易包括Energy Petrol拥有的8艘船用燃料船队，并使Alkagesta在全球的石油产品仓储能力达到约72.8万立方米。Energy Petrol将继续独立运营。财务条款未予披露。
The deal, which has been approved by Turkey’s antitrust watchdog, includes Energy Petrol’s fleet of eight bunker vessels and brings Alkagesta’s global oil-products storage capacity to around 728,000 cubic meters, Huseynov said. Energy Petrol will continue to operate independently. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.
该公司在声明中表示，在此之前，Alkagesta仅向其他船东租用船只。目前该公司有3艘租用的成品油油轮。
Until now, Alkagesta has only chartered vessels from other owners. It currently has three oil-product tankers under charter, the company said in a statement.
在进入航空燃油和原油市场后，该公司上半年交易了490万吨石油、化肥、钢铁和生物燃料，同比增长53%。
The firm traded 4.9 million tons of oil, fertilizers, steel and biofuels in the first half, up 53% year-on-year following its entry into jet fuel and crude oil markets.
首席执行官奥尔汉·鲁斯塔莫夫（Orkhan Rustamov）表示：“今年，由于波动性，由于不同地理区域市场的冲击，我们能够很好地捕捉到利润空间。”他说，该公司上半年获得了“合理的利润”，但没有详细说明。
“This year, due to the volatility, due to the shocks in the market in different geographical zones, we were able to capture the margins in a nice way,” Chief Executive Officer Orkhan Rustamov said. The company made a “reasonable profit” in the first half, he said, without elaborating.
中东冲突在3月初颠覆了全球能源市场，打乱了通过霍尔木兹海峡的货物运输，并导致油气价格飙升。这种波动为贸易商创造了巨大的机遇，许多人获得了巨额利润。
The conflict in the Middle East upended global energy markets in early March, disrupting the flow of cargoes through the Strait of Hormuz and sending oil and gas prices soaring. That volatility created big opportunities for traders, with many reaping large profits.
Alkagesta也受到了俄乌战争的影响，这场战争导致多波无人机袭击黑海港口，推高了保险和货运成本。不过，鲁斯塔莫夫表示，该公司今年仍计划从里海管道财团（Caspian Pipeline Consortium）购买3到4批现货原油。该公司继续在格鲁吉亚、罗马尼亚和土耳其的其他黑海港口交易石油产品。
Alkagesta has also been affected by the Russia-Ukraine war, which has seen waves of drone strikes hit Black Sea ports, driving up costs for insurance and freight. Still, the company aims to buy three or four more spot crude cargoes from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium this year, Rustamov said. It continues to trade oil products at other Black Sea ports in Georgia, Romania and Turkey.
在船用燃料方面，胡谢伊诺夫表示，Alkagesta计划扩大其在新加坡的加油业务。他说，该公司目前专注于东地中海，供应土耳其每年250万吨市场的约40%以及马耳他市场的75%。土耳其市场的其他主要参与者包括维多集团（Vitol Group）旗下的Petrol Ofisi AS以及阿塞拜疆国家石油公司（Socar）。
In marine fuel, Alkagesta plans to expand its bunkering operations in Singapore, Huseynov said. It currently focuses on the eastern Mediterranean, supplying around 40% of Turkey’s 2.5 million-ton-a-year market and 75% of Malta’s, he said. Other key players in the Turkish market include Petrol Ofisi AS — owned by Vitol Group — and Azerbaijan’s Socar.