The Baltic Exchange will be holding its annual Freight and Commodities Forum in Singapore on 12 April at the SGX Centre.

Aimed at the physical, dry bulk, freight, and FFA sectors, the forum will include insights from analysts and industry leaders on how they expect markets to react to shifting cargo flows and the changing regulatory environment. The forum showcases freight options, hedging rates in FFAs and how the Baltic is supporting market participants with new services and benchmarks.

The programme for the forum is as follows:

11:15 Registration coffee
11:30 FFABA Options Workshop
12:30 Forum Registration & Lunch
13:30 Baltic Exchange Update, Mark Jackson – CEO, Baltic Exchange
13:50 The Macro Outlook On Global Trade; Chinese growth, iron ore and coal – Rahul Kapoor – Senior Analyst, Asia Transportation, Bloomberg Intelligence
14:30 FFAs and Options Panel, Chaired by Andy James – Swire Bulk / China Navigation Company
15:00 Coffee
15:20 Dry Bulk Freight Markets; The supply demand outlook – Daejin Lee, Principal Consultant | Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit
16:00 Freight Market Panel: Market cycles and events; 
Covering; cargo flows and new markets, benchmark changes, iron ore market outlook, LNG benchmarks, IMO 2020 Sulphur Cap

For more information, or to register, click here.