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Just adding up Vitol, Transfigura, Cargill and Koch Industries you get to 665B in revenues.
Commodities trading is a behemoth, everything that surrounds us had to be mined and refined at some point, and most of it comes from very far, way beyond a 10-mile radius, thus prompting the need to move commodities around.