As an expert in commodity markets, ARIA concentrates on trading in mineral steel raw materials.
Iron ore The chemical element iron doesn’t occur in nature in pure form, but predominantly as oxidic iron ore which is mined. It is the second most common metal after aluminium. This ore is used to produce steel – which is of dominant importance not only in infrastructure and the real estate industry, but also in the automotive and shipbuilding industries and in the production of household appliances. Iron ore is extracted by deep mining (underground mining) or the less complex and cheaper opencast mining process. Today, iron ore extracted by opencast mining comes mainly from Africa, Canada, Brazil, Australia, CIS countries and China. In recent decades, these countries have displaced those iron ore exporters from the EU that were originally important. We offer iron ores with a wide range of FE content from 45% to 66% as so-called iron ore lumps, iron ore fines, sinter feed and concentrate. We also supply steel semi products such as steel billets and slabs as well as steel coils and sub-products such as mill scale and beach or pig iron.

ARIA has a team of logistics specialists who make sure that the route from supplier to customer is handled professionally and efficiently. Owing to their many years of experience in logistics markets, they make use of their wide range of contacts with shipping companies and logistics firms at our headquarters in Hamburg and in other trading centres around the world. They’re thus able to oversee the sometimes long journey from the loading point onto the rail network and via inland waterways to loading onto a bulk carrier in an international port. To ensure smooth product transportation, we work together with ISO-certified international logistics partners and ship owners. In this way, we ensure that goods arrive at a customer’s premises from their supplier via a safe and efficient logistics chain, in line with market requirements and just in time.

ARIA’s Human Rights Policy expresses our commitment to respect the human rights of our employees, those living in the vicinity of our locations and our partners, including members of vulnerable groups. In everything we do, the rights of our employees, the people living close to our locations and our partners are of central concern to us.
Our opportunity: In carrying out our business activities, we have a great deal of contact with the people who live near our locations. This contact gives us an opportunity to demonstrate that we stand up for the rights of our employees and the people living in the vicinity, including members of vulnerable groups such as women, children, indigenous people and victims of conflict. This is particularly relevant in regions where special security measures are required to protect our assets.
Our goal: We strive to prevent human rights violations within our Group and along our value chain and to comply with international and UN standards.

Population growth on earth will continue increasing rapidly in coming decades. By 2050, researchers expect the world’s population to increase dramatically from just over 7 billion today to 9.2 billion. In light of such a scenario, the demand for housing, but also for industrial goods, will undoubtedly increase. In order to satisfy this demand, a further, increased extraction of raw materials will become necessary. In the past, several cases have been observed in which the extraction of natural resources has led to environmental pollution as well as social conflicts.
ARIA has set itself the task of only trading with sustainably extracted raw materials. That’s why ARIA attaches great importance to the fact that these raw materials are mined in accordance with the latest environmental standards and that residents of affected regions do not suffer any disadvantages. Once mining projects have come to an end, ARIA also works hard to ensure that the earth movements that have occurred are compensated for in an environmentally friendly manner and that any residues are removed.
In addition, ARIA is actively involved in projects that aim to recover raw materials from partially contaminated soil and to restore these areas to a pollution-free state.

At ARIA, compliance as a company-wide initiative to adhere to laws, legislation and internal company guidelines is an essential management and monitoring task. Key areas of the compliance programme include anti-corruption and compliance with EU and OFAC export law and prevention of money laundering. The Board of ARIA SE has expressed its negative stance towards EU and OFAC as well as corruption violations. There is a clear commitment to compliance with the law and internal guidelines: violations, especially export or corruption violations, will – in the sense of “zero tolerance” – not be tolerated. Any indication of misconduct will be investigated. In order to implement this Compliance Commitment, a transparent, corporate image-oriented management culture is being developed on an ongoing basis. This includes the fact that ARIA staff are personally responsible for adhering to these compliance requirements. Our managers also bear corporate responsibility for the compliance programme’s consistent implementation. Both employees and managers are supported in this by the compliance function.