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The Baltic Exchange is the provider of information on maritime transportation markets, used for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts. == Overview == Its international community of over 600 member companies encompasses the majority of world shipping interests and commits to a code of business conduct overseen by the Baltic. Baltic Exchange members are responsible for a large proportion of all dry cargo and tanker fixtures as well as the sale and purchase of merchant vessels. The company was founded in the mid-18th century, with leading founding shareholders being Stephen Ralli and Michael Rodocanachi, whose families were from the Chian Diaspora.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.christopherlong.co.uk/migrations/index.html )〕 The first use of the name was at the ''Virginia and Baltick Coffee House'' in Threadneedle Street in 1744, and was registered as a private limited company with shares in 1900. Today the ''exchange'' is owned by its member companies and is not publicly traded on a stock exchange. It is governed by a member-elected Board of Directors. It is located at 38 St Mary Axe in central London with further offices in Europe and the across Asia. The exchange provides daily freight market prices and maritime shipping cost indices which are used to guide freight traders as to the current level of various global shipping markets as well as being used to set freight contract rates and settle freight futures (known as ''Forward Freight Agreements'' or FFAs). Originally operating a trading floor, the exchange's members' transactions are today done solely over the telephone or on broker-owned screens. The exchange is the source of market-wide information and publishes seven daily indices made up from a suite of wet and dry benchmarked individual shipping voyages: * Baltic Dry Index (BDI) * Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) * Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) * Baltic Supramax Index (BSI) * Baltic Handysize Index (BHSI) * Baltic Dirty Tanker Index (BDTI) * Baltic Clean Tanker Index (BCTI) The exchange also provides forward curves, a dry cargo fixture list, sale and purchase values, LPG assessment, daily market news and the market settlement data for freight derivative contracts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baltic Exchange」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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