Trade & commodities

Physical commodities,
sourced and coordinated.

We work with producers and suppliers across Kazakhstan and Central Asia, and with buyers who need the material delivered against terms they can hold someone to.

A loaded carrier under way on open water, seen from above

The corridor

From the mine, the field
or the plant, to your door.

  1. Origin · rail

    Kazakhstan

    Loading at the producer, inspection at the agreed standard, and the first set of documents that everything downstream refers back to.

  2. Transit · sea

    The Caspian

    A crossing that changes carrier and paperwork. Timing here is weather and berth, which is why schedules are given as ranges, not promises.

  3. Transit · rail and road

    The Caucasus

    Border formalities on both sides, and the point where an origin document that was approximate at loading becomes expensive.

  4. Transit · multimodal

    Türkiye

    Transhipment towards the final leg, coordinated against the delivery terms written into the contract.

  5. Destination · rail and sea

    Europe

    Arrival at the named place, where responsibility passes and the balance of the payment usually falls due.

The routing above reflects the corridor Han Eurasia Resources works on out of Kazakhstan. The route for a given cargo is set by its origin, its destination and what is moving; we confirm it per transaction rather than promising a lane.

What we source

Five groups cover most of what moves out of the region. What is available, in what specification and at what volume is confirmed against current supply when you describe the requirement.

Stacked sheets of refined copper in a storage yard
  • Copper cathodes
  • Copper concentrates
  • Aluminium ingots
  • Ferrochrome
  • Ferrosilicon
  • Zinc
  • Lead
  • Selected ores and concentrates

Grade, impurity limits and the inspection standard decide most of the commercial conversation here.

Product availability, specifications, origin, volumes and commercial terms are confirmed individually for each transaction.

What we need
from you first.

A requirement becomes workable once four things are written down. Everything after that, from the inspection standard to the payment structure, follows from them.

Specification
The grade, purity or quality parameters the material has to meet, and the standard the inspection will be measured against.
Quantity
The volume for the first shipment, and whether it repeats. A single cargo and a twelve month schedule are different transactions.
Origin
Where the material has to come from, and any origin the buyer or their market will not accept.
Delivery point
The named place where responsibility passes, which sets the routing, the cost base and the terms we work to.
A marine terminal with storage tanks and a loading jetty

Sourcing, inspection and movement.

We match a requirement to producers and suppliers we can approach directly, then work through the commercial terms with both sides until there is a contract that describes the same transaction to everyone reading it.

Inspection is arranged with an independent surveyor and written into the terms, so the quality of what arrives is a matter of record rather than correspondence. Logistics is coordinated across the modes the route needs, against the delivery terms agreed in the contract.

We coordinate inspection and transport through the parties who carry them out. We do not present ourselves as the owner of the vessels, wagons, terminals or warehouses involved.

Where the terms
meet the money.

A trade is only finished when the funds have moved the way the contract says they should. The commercial terms decide what the payment has to wait for, and the settlement arrangement has to be able to carry it.

Tell us what you need to move.

A product and a specification, a volume, or simply the problem you are trying to solve. We will tell you what we can source, what we would need to confirm, and how the payment would be arranged.