Mitigating risk across every stage of international commodity transit.
Managing physical commodities demands flawless risk mitigation. Burlcore Trading pairs with top-tier international secure transit providers to guarantee fully insured, armoured logistics for high-value mineral cargo across air and sea corridors. Before any trade execution, assets undergo rigorous certified assay testing to confirm exact purity and chemical compositions. Backed by strategic partnerships with secure, world-class vaulting facilities, we preserve the absolute safety and physical integrity of your assets from deposit to final delivery.
Insured armoured transit
Cargo moves under continuous chain-of-custody with tier-one secure logistics providers. Every leg is insured to full replacement value, tracked in real time, and reconciled at each transfer point.
Certified assay verification
Independent, internationally accredited laboratories confirm purity and composition prior to trade execution. Fire assay, XRF, and ICP-MS methodologies are applied as appropriate to the consignment.
World-class vaulting
Assets are held in accredited vaulting facilities in principal financial centres, with segregated storage, dual-control access, and full audit trails available on demand.
Sealing, weighing and reconciliation
Consignments are sealed under dual control, weighed and photographed before departure, with seal numbers transmitted to the receiving party in advance. Any discrepancy at intake is therefore detectable immediately rather than open to negotiation after the fact.
Route planning and corridor risk
Routing decisions weigh corridor security, customs practice and transfer-point exposure alongside cost. Where a corridor carries elevated risk, transit is restructured, split or declined, since the cheapest routing is rarely the one that survives an incident.
Allocated storage and title
Metal held in allocated storage remains identified to the owner by bar number and is segregated from the operator's balance sheet, so the holder owns identified metal rather than a claim against a vault operator. Statements and audit access are available to the owner and to their auditors.
At a glance
- Transit model
- Insured door-to-door movement with bonded carriers and armoured transit where value and corridor require
- Assay methods
- Fire assay as reference, supported by XRF and ICP analysis
- Storage type
- Allocated, segregated storage under dual-control access in principal financial centres
- Documentation
- Seal records, weight notes, assay certificates, transit and customs papers, vault intake receipts
Common questions
Is allocated storage different from pooled storage?+
Yes. Allocated storage identifies specific bars to the owner and segregates them from the operator's own assets. Pooled or unallocated storage leaves the holder with a claim against the operator rather than title to identified metal.
How is insurance arranged?+
Cover is arranged door to door with values declared per consignment, so the material is insured continuously across each leg rather than only while in a carrier's custody.
What happens if assay results are disputed?+
Retained sealed samples are sent for umpire analysis at an agreed independent laboratory, and the contract sets the tolerance within which results are accepted without recourse.
Related reading
Where sealing, transit and vault intake sit in the wider sequence.
ReadAccepted forms, fineness and assay practice by metal.
ReadHow delivery documents trigger release of settlement.
ReadAllocated storage, chain of custody and umpire assay defined.
ReadReview our logistics and security measures
Detailed operating procedures are available under NDA to institutional counterparties.