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Container Futures Contracts Seek to Mitigate 2021 Freight Rate Surge – Sourcing Journal

As all stakeholders throughout the supply chain seek answers to 2021’s skyrocketing freight rates, select parties are banking on futures contracts to bring some transparency to pricing going forward. Six new futures contracts scheduled to start trading in February are designed to hedge the risk of ocean freight rates, and mitigate some of the volatility…

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