Alkagesta promotes Anthony Guida to biofuels trading desk lead

Alkagesta on June 16 promoted Anthony Guida to biofuels trading desk lead, elevating the trader who helped build the unit since its 2025 launch. The move comes as the Malta-headquartered company expands a desk that links waste-oil and residue suppliers with biodiesel refiners, HVO producers, SAF producers, aggregators and blenders across Europe.

Alkagesta said Guida joined in January 2025 and brought a decade of energy-market experience from S&P Global Platts, Phillips 66 and PETRONAS. The company said he moved from crude oil analysis into strategy and business development across crude, biofuels and carbon markets, then helped build the biofuels platform in Geneva and across Europe.

The promotion follows a string of infrastructure and certification moves. Alkagesta said it received ISCC CORSIA certification in January 2026, enabling it to trade and supply CORSIA-eligible SAF under international aviation sustainability requirements. ICAO says CORSIA-eligible fuels must meet approved sustainability certification standards, while ISCC says its CORSIA scheme is recognized by ICAO for sustainability, traceability and life-cycle assessment criteria. ICAO said 130 States were participating in CORSIA as of January 1, 2026, and the program’s first phase runs through 2026.

Alkagesta also signed a multi-year biofuel storage lease at Pantank in Antwerp, Belgium, on March 25, 2026. The company told Argus the deal includes up to 300,000 m³/yr of jet fuel through the pipeline and another 100,000 m³/yr under a ship-or-pay capacity arrangement. The European Commission says ReFuelEU Aviation, part of Fit for 55, requires aviation fuel suppliers to gradually increase the share of SAF blended into conventional aviation fuel, while the EU is working toward advanced biofuels made from sustainable feedstocks.

Alkagesta said its used cooking oil collection and processing also widened, rising to 1,860 tonnes collected and 1,780 tonnes processed. Founded in Malta in 2018, the company says it now operates through 17 offices and representations worldwide, maintains partnerships with 28 international banks and facilitates about 9 million metric tons of commodity flows annually. That scale places the biofuels desk inside a broader trading and logistics platform where storage, certification and feedstock access are now central to the business.