Trafigura

Trafigura is a privately-held global physical commodities trading and logistics company that sources, stores, transports and delivers a range of raw materials, including oil, refined products, metals, and minerals, around the world. Trafigura was founded in 1993 by Claude Dauphin and is headquartered in Singapore, with operations in forty-eight countries and regional offices in Geneva, Athens, Moscow, Mumbai, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Campana, Montevideo, Mexico City, Houston, and Calgary. The company's stated vision is "an increasingly interconnected and prosperous world where physical commodities pass seamlessly from their points of origin to points of need." Trafigura is one of the largest physical commodities trading groups in the world and in 2020 and has generated $147 billion in revenue as of 2020.

Trafigura sources, stores, blends, and delivers physical commodities between producers, processors, and consumers across the globe. Its trading operations include oil and petroleum products, metals and minerals, shipping and chartering, and power and renewables. Trafigura's trading business is supported by its industrial and financial assets. Key subsidiaries of Trafigura include Impala Terminals, the independently managed multimodal logistics arm of the Trafigura Group; global multi-metals business Nyrstar, Galena Asset Management; the private investment arm of the Trafigura Group; Trafigura Mining Group, with mining operations in the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America; and TFG Marine, a global marine fuels supply and procurement joint venture between Trafigura Group Pte and ship-owning companies Frontline Ltd. and Golden Ocean Group Ltd.

To support its global operations, Trafigura has established strategic alliances with global energy business Puma Energy, Finnish multi-metal company Terrafame, Chinese domestic copper smelting company Jinchuan, Indian oil refiner Nayara Energy, infrastructure investors IFM Investors, Russian oil company Rosneft, UAE-based investment and development company Mubadala Investment Company, and Corpus Christi-based Buckeye Partners.