Alkagesta Awarded ISCC CORSIA Certification to Supply Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Alkagesta has been awarded ISCC CORSIA certification, allowing the Malta-headquartered trading house to trade and supply CORSIA-eligible sustainable aviation fuel in line with international aviation sustainability requirements.

The timing is deliberate. The Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation has moved beyond its pilot years into a phase in which emissions monitoring, reporting and verification are enforced in earnest. Airlines buying sustainable aviation fuel now need assurance not simply that a molecule is renewable, but that its full chain of custody satisfies an approved scheme. Without certification at each handover, the environmental value of the fuel cannot be claimed.

What the certification covers

ISCC CORSIA verifies that feedstock origin, processing and every subsequent transfer meet defined sustainability and traceability criteria. For a trading intermediary the requirement is essentially documentary discipline: mass balance accounting, auditable supplier records and controls that survive third-party inspection. Traders unable to demonstrate that discipline are excluded from the compliance market regardless of price competitiveness.

Building on an existing biofuels position

Alkagesta already holds ISCC EU registration for its biofuels activity and has spent the past two years constructing a European biofuels franchise spanning waste feedstock collectors through to refiners of FAME and HVO. Sustainable aviation fuel is the logical extension of that chain, drawing on many of the same feedstocks — used cooking oil chief among them — and the same certification architecture.

Market context

Aviation is among the hardest sectors to decarbonise, and blending mandates in the European Union and United Kingdom are scheduled to rise steadily through the decade. Supply remains scarce relative to those mandates, and much of the near-term volume will be intermediated by trading houses capable of aggregating certified feedstock and matching it to airline demand. Certification is the entry ticket to that business.

For Alkagesta the award also connects to its wider aviation ambitions, including its supply of jet fuel through NATO's Central Europe Pipeline System announced the following month. A supplier able to offer both conventional jet and certified sustainable aviation fuel from the same commercial platform is a rarer proposition than the volume statistics suggest.

Sources

• Ccarbon — Alkagesta Awarded ISCC CORSIA Certification to Supply SAF — 14 January 2026
• SAF Investor — Alkagesta awarded ISCC CORSIA certification to supply SAF — 8 January 2026
• MaltaToday — Alkagesta awarded ISCC CORSIA certification — 8 January 2026
• Alkagesta — Company website