Swiss trader and charterer Trafigura has topped up its finances with an over-subscribed $300m notes sale.

The shipowner's Trafigura Securitisation Finance (TSF) unit said it had placed the debt in the US asset-backed securities (ABS) market.

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This is Trafigura’s sixth public asset-backed transaction since the inception of the programme in 2004.