GFI’s container brokerage desk offers shipping lines, freight forwarders, shippers, trading houses, and financial institutions the ability to hedge and manage their freight rate exposure.

In less commoditised markets, like the container derivatives market, our brokers perform an invaluable role for their clients, using their position at the centre of information flow to provide liquidity aggregation and transaction execution.

Key benefits offered by GFI Container Derivatives:

• GFI Group , is a leading intermediary with an unmatched presence in global derivative markets, especially within freight.
• Our focus on a client based formula, allows for greater depth of understanding of our client’s risk exposure profile, enabling us to assist clients in implementing their suitable hedging strategy.
• GFI’s skills and experience in establishing existing freight derivatives markets puts us in a good position to help deliver to clients insight and information to what is still a very unfamiliar area for many market participants.
• There are synergies that can be maximised between other commodity markets in which GFI operates in.