The purchase, sale, exchange, loan, import and export, transport, distribution and trade of all products, energy and non-energy, including crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas, electricity, coal, chemicals, grain, animal and vegetable oils, biofuels as well as the storage, transport and distribution of such products or raw materials, as well as all operations or contracts related to such products or raw materials, all related activities and services; may perform ancillary service performances, such as rental, chartering of ships, ship ownership, ship management and related activities, storage, assembly and processing of all products in the energy and raw materials sector, insurance, inspection and others, as well as participate in industrial, commercial and service companies with headquarters and/or activities in Switzerland and abroad, in accordance with the applicable regulations; assume direct or indirect interests and participations in other industrial, commercial and service companies in Switzerland or abroad, in the sector related to the company's purpose or in other sectors and open branches and subsidiaries abroad; carry out all commercial and industrial operations deemed necessary or useful and functionally connected with the company's purpose or aimed at achieving it. The company may also open branches in Switzerland and abroad.