Barkal Gold Associates is a highly experienced British gold trading firm located in London, Grand Genève, Istanbul, and Port Sudan/Khartoum.
Our core experience is fostered from over a decade of working in Africa and marketing and global export facilitation of gold bullion bars at scale, procured from throughout the continent's producing countries.
Barkal Gold Associates is the trading company to have on your side for all your direct and on the ground gold requirements from Africa, sourced from Sudan and other leading gold producers on the continent.
Barkal Gold Associates is the comprehensive service global supplier for discounted African-origin gold bullion bars and dore – facilitated solely via bank-to-bank based transactions.
We provide the most reliable and professional gold sourcing and supply services available of the continent's world renowned highly quality gold bullion bars and dore. No other firm matches our reach and network of suppliers across the continent when it comes to procuring discounted gold competitively at both value and scale - with integrity, transparency, and reliabilty of service and supply all guaranteed.
Rest assured, too: gold offerings sourced in Africa by Barkal Gold Associates have been vetted painstakingly to ensure that they are supplied to buyers free from human rights abuses, ring-fenced from any local jurisdictional conflict zones, conform to international labour and environmental standards, and are free from any criminal, and terrorist or illegal activities.
Our target at Barkal Gold Associates is simple: de-risking to the maximum the procurement of gold bullion bars and dore from Africa by global buyers.
Procured gold bars and dore are lifted and delivered straight from our network of suppliers straight by world renowned security and logistics companies tarmac-side, and onward by commercial airlines (and sometimes chartered plane) and road to the buyer's nominated refinery. Thereafter, the gold dore bars are offloaded at the refinery for a final assay within the presence of representatives of both the buyer and seller parties, and a binding assay report is issued, as per the SPA signed by both parties, with payment by the buyer made thereafter on a MT103/TT basis to the supplying party.
No matter if your aim is to buy a comparatively small amount or tonnes of Africa's gold bullion bars or dore, Barkal Gold Associates has the product and sourcing services available to meet virtually any requirements. We only work with earnest and professional buyers and sellers of gold because we are extremely diligent about the comprehensive services that we provide: all are KYC ready.
All our gold transactions are conducted with upmost professionalism, integrity transparency, and in the most secure way possible.
And we improve market clearance by extending access to Africa's gold globally through deploying insurance, security, and risk-free logistics all the way to our buyer’s nominated refinery.
Our business transparency strengthens the connections between our suppliers and clients ensuring water-tight performing transactions.
The core management of Barkal Gold Associates has over a decade of experience working in Africa and gold and commodity trading.
Honesty and integrity lie left-front-and centre of Barkal Gold Associates, led by its founder and managing director, Ahmed Badawi, a London-born, educated, and raised UK national.
He has an outstanding global professional record, encompassing the UK, USA, and Sudan.
The client management focus, skill set, integrity, and professional work experience of Ahmed Badawi is complemented perfectly by Dr Amir Elsharif, CEO of Barkal Gold Associates. A trained medical doctor and graduate of King's College, University of London, Dr. Amir Elsharif spent over a decade as a senior manager at the Italian energy giant, ENI, where he was responsible for HSE management across ENI's operations in the Gulf countries, where he has also resided.
A qualified risk specialist, Dr Amir Elsharif has extensive global commodity trading expertise, including in the gold, hydrocarbons, sugar, and agricultural commodities sector. He hails from an exceptional mercantalist family background in Sudan, which has its historical roots in the Maghreb region and Saudi Arabia.
Dr Elsharif is at the advisory nexus of Barkal Gold's trading and operational strategy across Africa and, like Ahmed Badawi, visits Africa frequently to inventorise, reshape, and pre-screen its network of gold suppliers in a number of jurisdictions across Africa.
Our confidence in the integrity of our gold offering stems from being regularly on the ground throughout the African continent (and with our heritage born of its soil) getting our shoes dusty and muddy there and fostering local relationships within gold producers, communities, and government officials in countries and regions that most would never visit.
Logistics
Barkal Gold Associates believes strongly in easing market clearing in the African gold export sector by extending global access of our gold offering through deploying insurance, security, and risk-free logistics throughout the continent: all sales of gold are made on a CIF basis.
This locks in the business transparency and integrity and strengthens the connections between our gold suppliers and our clients ensuring water-tight transactions. And it's also why we use only the best when it comes to controlled and secure access to gold suppliers for clients that may have had less-than stellar buying experience elsewhere: Barkal Gold Associates uses Brinks, Transguard, and other legendary security and logistics firms, to provide a full service logistics based security service for each and every gold transaction that we facilitate.