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FORWARD FREIGHT AGREEMENT Definition & Legal Meaning

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It is a principal-to-principal contract for betting on the price of a particular freight-route on a particular date. Shippers and ship owners use it as a hedge against a volatile ocean freight market. Based on Baltic exchange option contracts on freight rates.

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