The next Shanghai Baltic Exchange/Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers lecture takes place on 13 November with a focus on freight derivatives. The lunchtime lecture will be delivered by Steven Jia, Executive Director at Augustus Maritime. He will discuss how to manage freight rate risk and using Baltic indices to benchmark physical exposure and how to avoid basis risk when transferring exposure between physical and FFA markets. 

Steven Jia has an MBA from HKUST Business School and a bachelors degree in Shipping Mangement from Singapore Management University. He has worked at Augustus Maritime since 2011 where he heads up shipping business. He has 18 years of shipping industry experience and five years of trading FFAs and fuel futures. 

For further details, please contact Ying Sun. ysun@balticexchange.com