Physical energy trading · Malta
Headlinks (Malta) Limited sources, ships and delivers crude oil and refined petroleum products — connecting producers, refiners, distributors and end-users across the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, West Africa and the Arabian Gulf.
Who we are
Headlinks (Malta) Limited is a privately held physical commodity trading company registered in Malta. We buy, blend, move and sell crude oil and refined petroleum products, taking ownership of the cargo and the risk that comes with it.
Our value is not in the paper trade. It is in getting a compliant, on-specification cargo from a load port to a discharge port, on the agreed date, with the documents in order and the payment structure agreed before the vessel sails. Every deal is underwritten by counterparty diligence, independent inspection and a clear chain of title.
What we do
A counterparty deals with one company: we hold the trade, arrange the freight and carry the price and credit exposure until title passes.
Spot cargoes and term supply agreements in crude and refined products, sourced from refiners, producers and traders and placed with distributors, industrial buyers and resellers.
Chartering of coasters, MRs, LR1/LR2 and Aframax tonnage, plus storage and blending at third-party terminals, so the cargo moves on our paper rather than the buyer's.
Price risk hedged against ICE and Platts benchmarks, credit risk managed through documentary instruments, and working capital structured deal by deal.
Our products
From wellhead grades through to the bunker fuels and bitumen at the bottom of the barrel — traded to internationally recognised specifications and independently verified at load and discharge.
Sweet and sour grades lifted from the Mediterranean, Black Sea, West Africa and the Arabian Gulf.
The core of our refined book: automotive and heating gasoil, jet fuel and kerosene.
Gasoline grades and petrochemical feedstocks moved between refining and blending centres.
Residual fuels for power generation, industry and marine supply under the IMO sulphur cap.
Bottom-of-the-barrel and speciality streams supplied to industrial and infrastructure buyers.
Waste-based and blended renewable streams as the European mandate framework tightens.
Why Malta
Malta sits on the shipping lane between the Suez Canal and Gibraltar, within reach of the North African, Italian, Greek and Levantine markets, and a short steam from the bunkering and storage capacity of the central Mediterranean.
As an EU member state with an English-language legal system built on English commercial law, Malta gives our counterparties a familiar contractual footing, EU-standard regulation and a jurisdiction their banks already recognise.
How we work
Before a price is discussed, the counterparty is screened: corporate documents, ownership, sanctions and PEP checks, credit position and trading history.
Quality, quantity, Incoterms, laycan, pricing basis and payment instrument are agreed and captured in a written contract — not a recap that leaves room for interpretation.
Tonnage is fixed against the laycan and the price exposure is hedged against the relevant benchmark so the margin agreed on day one survives to delivery.
An independent inspector attends load and discharge. Quantity and quality certificates, the bill of lading and the cargo manifest travel with the cargo.
Documents are presented against the agreed instrument, discharge is confirmed, demurrage is calculated on the charter terms, and the trade is closed out.
“In physical trading the counterparty check is the trade. Everything after it is logistics.”
Responsibility
We operate under EU and international sanctions regimes, apply KYC and anti-money laundering procedures to every counterparty, and decline business where the origin of a cargo or the source of funds cannot be established.
Our chartering standards follow the vetting practice of the industry: age, class, P&I cover and inspection history are checked before a vessel is fixed, and every movement is expected to meet MARPOL and IMO 2020 requirements.
Send us the grade, the quantity, the delivery basis and the window. We will come back with an indication and the documentary structure we can work to.