German energy company Uniper ramped up its LNG cargo trading last year by almost 68% as it pursues the commodity as a “strategic growth area”.

Uniper said it traded 225 cargoes in 2020, a big jump on the 134 recorded in the previous year.

The Dusseldorf-headquartered company said it had seen particularly strong growth in the Asia-Pacific region with two-thirds of its volumes traded in this area last year.