Learning Platform - "Trade Compliance & Surveillance"
Course: Freight – FFAs & Freight Derivatives
About the online training programme
This course explains what a forward freight agreements (or FFAs) concern. The course includes videos about the application of FFAs and what standard legal frameworks are used. It is also set out what freight futures and options concern and how they can be applied by markets participant to hedge their exposures or for investment purposes.
Course Contents
This course covers the following video lessons:
- Forward freight agreement – Introduction to FFAs
- Forward freight agreement – Price-fixation
- Forward freight agreement – Price-fixation – Settlement (example)
- Forward freight agreement – Multi-period tool
- Forward freight agreement – FFABA & master agreements
- Freight futures – Introduction
- Freight futures – Tools for hedging & investing
- Freight options – Introduction
- Freight options – European style
- Freight options – Asian style
- Freight options – Tools for hedging
- Freight options – Valuation of Asian style options