Trafigura

Trafigura and Vitol sell more Venezuelan oil to Asia as war roils supply

A structure near the headquarters of Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA in Caracas. Vitol and Trafigura have been granted contracts to sell 30 million to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil.

Vitol and Trafigura – traders at the heart of Trump’s Venezuela oil grab

Trafigura and Vitol Group have obtained preliminary licenses from the US Treasury to help market the pledged Venezuelan crude oil.

Trafigura readies first Venezuelan oil ship as part of mega sale

The sources said most of this aluminium was put on LME warrant, a title document conferring ownership, by Trafigura.

Trafigura floods LME Malaysia warehouses with aluminium: sources

As gold prices soared to successive records and silver rallied to the highest levels in more than a decade, precious metals have become big profit drivers of commodity trading houses like Trafigura.

Trafigura hires traders for deeper push into gold and silver

Trafigura put its troubled Port Pirie lead smelting operations in South Australia and its zinc processing operations in Hobart, Tasmania, under strategic review earlier this year.

Australia to provide A$135 million bailout for Trafigura lead, zinc smelters

Share buybacks are the main way that Trafigura rewards the roughly 1,400 employees that own the company, and have been a conduit for vast riches in recent years.

Trafigura’s buyback headache grows amid fresh wave of exits

The suspects include an employee of commodity trader Trafigura Group who was a business development manager during the period in question.

Indonesia detains Trafigura employee in 285 trillion rupiah graft case

Trafigura said it expects volatility to continue over the remainder of 2025, but cautioned that it may not flow through to earnings. 

Trafigura flags trading headwinds as payouts outstrip profit

It is the first time Switzerland’s top criminal court will rule on a company’s liability for the alleged bribing of a foreign official and a rare instance of a former top executive of a trading firm going in the dock.

Swiss corruption case involving Trafigura and former executive opens