The trading and logistics muscle that moves fuel, now pointed at the metals that electrify the world.
Grids, batteries, and clean power are, underneath the headlines, a materials problem. Cheka sources and moves the base and battery metals that solve it, with the same discipline that carries our petroleum cargoes.
Electrification runs on metal, and someone has to move it.
Copper for wiring and motors. Aluminium for lines and light-weighting. Lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, and graphite for the cells. The energy transition is a demand story written in tonnes, and it is only getting bigger.
Cheka is a physical trading house before it is anything else. The financing, freight, storage, and inspection that move a petroleum cargo across an ocean are the same capabilities that move a metals cargo from smelter to factory. We are applying them to the materials that carry the electrons.
Copper and the metals the grid is built from.
Copper, aluminium, zinc, lead, and nickel are the working metals of construction, manufacturing, and the power grid. We trade them physically against LME-referenced pricing, then handle the warehousing and delivery that get tonnage to the mills, fabricators, and utilities that consume it.
- Copper, aluminium, zinc, lead, nickelThe core base-metal slate behind wiring, structures, galvanising, and alloys.
- LME-referenced pricingTransparent benchmarks and hedged exposure, priced the way the market prices.
- Warehousing & deliveryApproved storage and onward logistics to plant or port, on your Incoterms.
The raw materials inside every cell.
Lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, and graphite are the raw materials of batteries and electrification, and demand for them is climbing fast as vehicles and grids switch over. We source and move these metals into battery supply chains with the traceability that cell and cathode buyers now expect from a counterparty.
- Lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, graphiteThe cathode and anode inputs behind today's battery chemistries.
- Battery supply chainsPositioned upstream of the cathode, cell, and pack makers scaling capacity.
- Traceable, responsibly sourcedChain of custody and provenance held to the standards buyers audit against.
From mine and smelter to the factory floor.
Physical trading, financing, and logistics are what actually move metal from mine and smelter to the manufacturer. Cheka takes title to cargoes, finances the flow, and manages the freight, so producers reach markets and buyers secure supply without carrying the whole chain themselves.
- Physical trading & financingTitle, working capital, and price risk taken on across the cargo.
- Global logisticsOcean and inland freight, storage, and SGS-grade inspection coordinated end to end.
- Producer-to-manufacturer supplyA single counterparty connecting output to the plants that need it.
Put our logistics behind your metal.
Whether you are sourcing base metals for a plant or securing battery inputs for a gigafactory, our desk can price it, finance it, and move it.