The Baltic Exchange is the world's leading source of independent maritime data. Our information is used by shipbrokers, owners, operators, traders and charterers as a reliable assessment of the dry bulk and tanker markets.
The information is compiled and published during both the European and Asian working day by our London and Singapore offices.
Based on professional assessments made by a global panel of shipbrokers, Baltic information is used as a settlement tool for freight derivative trades, for benchmarking physical contracts and as a general indicator of the bulk market's performance. Baltic Forward Curves are an estimated mid-price based on assessments submitted by leading FFA brokers at 1700 (London) covering the dry, tanker and gas (LPG and LNG) markets. Open FFA positions are marked against the Baltic daily settlement price for their respective product and expiry and the clearing exchange and clearing member calculates a daily mark to market calculation which is used for margining
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Baltic Exchange is an alternative data vendor. Baltic Exchange specializes in market analysis, transportation data. This vendor has a Vedex Intelligence Score of 19 out of 100, reflecting market presence, compliance posture, integration readiness, and business maturity.
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