{"id":7373,"date":"2012-01-25T21:10:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/moves-trafigura-hires-expert-to-grow-safrica-coal-business\/"},"modified":"2012-01-25T21:10:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T19:10:28","slug":"moves-trafigura-hires-expert-to-grow-safrica-coal-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/moves-trafigura-hires-expert-to-grow-safrica-coal-business\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVES-Trafigura hires expert to grow SAfrica coal business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Jan 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Trafigura, one<br \/>\nof the biggest, independent energy traders, has hired Craig<br \/>\nGrinyer, formerly with South African port operator Grindrod to<br \/>\ndevelop its thermal coal business in that country, sources close<br \/>\nto the company said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Swiss-based Trafigura is the world&#8217;s third largest trader of<br \/>\ncrude oil and although it is a relative newcomer to the coal<br \/>\nmarket, it is committed to growing the coal business globally,<br \/>\none source said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trafigura said it does not comment on hires or departures of<br \/>\nemployees.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grinyer left Grindrod at the end of December, where he had<br \/>\nbeen responsible for business development in the company&#8217;s<br \/>\nterminals division.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trafigura&#8217;s Lucerne-based head of coal, Andrew Bingham,<br \/>\nresigned earlier this month and a replacement is being sought.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rival commodities trader Vitol on Jan. 18 announced it is to<br \/>\nbuy a 35 percent stake in a subsidiary of Grindrod&#8217;s, giving it<br \/>\naccess to the Maputo coal terminal in Mozambique as part of a<br \/>\nplan to grow its own trading operations.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Craig Grinyer is extremely capable but there are others who<br \/>\ncan fill in, it won&#8217;t have any appreciable impact on the<br \/>\nVitol-Grindrod j.v.,&#8221; one coal and transport industry source<br \/>\nsaid.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jacqueline Cowhig; editing by James Jukwey)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Jan 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Trafigura, one of the biggest, independent energy traders, has hired Craig Grinyer, formerly with South African port operator Grindrod to develop its thermal coal business in that country, sources close to the company said on Wednesday. Swiss-based Trafigura is the world&#8217;s third largest trader of crude oil and although it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}