Oil-linked price jump adds to Mitsui coffers

Rising oil-linked LNG prices helped Japan’s Mitsui lift profits in the first nine months of the fiscal year.

Dividends from Russia’s Sakhalin-2 LNG export project, where the Japanese trader is a shareholder, also bolstered the bottom line.

Mitsui logged 340 billion yen ($4.47 billion) in profits over the first three quarters of the fiscal year, a 23.4% jump on figures reported a year earlier.

The