The company was founded solely by Dr. Hazim Nada in March 2008 while still being a PhD student at Imperial College London. Starting as a single person unit with only 50'000 CHF of capital, the company began as Trafossilus AG in Switzerland using the savings of our founder from his previous employments in the trading sector.

With little capital and unable to engage as principal in the trade of commodities, the first two years of the company were mainly characterised by an activity of providing market analysis and business development services to European industrial groups and major trading companies with whom Dr. Nada had worked in his previous employment.

The ability to move cargoes as principal began in the low-cost sector of dry bulk commodities in the Post-Great Financial Crisis period.

Starting with coaster size and sub-handy shipments of grains and cement requiring little capital, the company was able to single handedly create the largest bagged cement import market in the Mediterranean during the years 2010-2016. In such years we moved over a fifth of all the bagged cement crossing the Mediterranean, supplying European cement to satisfy the needs of Chinese and Korean construction conglomerates engaged in large infrastructure and housing projects in Africa.

With such operation at hand and established links in China, it was swift for the company to also begin moving coal, supplying low rank and low cost thermal material to the Chinese state owned utility sector.

With strict discipline in retaining all profits for growth, capital was built via the dry bulk sector and the company was finally able to act as principal in the market of its original purpose: the oil and gas one.

Today, Lord Energy remains entirely independent, and without ever taking any funds from any external investor, we are proud that all our growth has been through retainment of profit or release of profit to capital. Our business today is a reality with multi-billion dollars a year in revenues, covering all regions and realities in the crude oil sector with a growing presence in the Americas and a very established and recognised presence in the Far East.

We look forward to continue our growth to add more value to all our trade counterparts.

Starting in the trade of dry bulk commodities, the firm has moved onto its main focus of liquid energy markets where it has established itself as an agile and competitive participant in the crude oil, condensates and LNG markets where the firm intends to continue its long term emphasis.

We are an active charterer, with most of our sales accounting for freight elements as our responsibilities. The firm has extensive shipping experience covering dry bulk ships, tankers and general cargo vessels of all sizes with charters varying from simple voyages and contracts of affreightment to time charters of varying tenure.