Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Cargill to use new electronic dry-bulk trading platform

The U.S. -based food giant Cargill Inc. is reportedly going to use the Baltic Exchange’s new Baltex electronic trading platform for dry-bulk-shipping derivatives as of June 8 when the new system officially launches.

Cargill, which accounts for close to one fifth of dry bulk derivatives, will have traded close to 200 million metric tons of commodities by the year ending May 31, according to Andy James, transportation head of derivatives in a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

For the full Bloomberg Businessweek story: www.businessweek.com

 

 

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