Effectiveness of forward freight agreements in mitigating capesize ship-owners' business risk between 2009 and 2014

Shipowners have employed various risk management tools to reduce their exposure in the inherently risky freight market to ensure survival. Traditionally, they utilize physical hedging tools such as Time Charters (TC) to hedge their earnings. The advent of Forward Freight Agreements (FFA), a paper he...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Wenhao
Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/67134