Gunvor Group, one of the world’s biggest independent oil traders, traded a record volume of crude oil and petroleum products in the first half of the year, largely driven by a growing number of deals to move oil from the United States, the group’s chairman Torbjörn Törnqvist told Bloomberg. Gunvor traded a record volume of 79 million tons of crude and products in the first half of 2024, Törnqvist told Bloomberg in an interview on Monday. The rise in oil trade volumes is mostly due to more and more deals Gunvor has been…