When a freight forwarder or shipping line needs to hedge temperature-sensitive freight costs, it turns to Forward Freight Agreements in the reefer market—a standardized derivative contract whose price is fixed in advance based on current market expectations for refrigerated routes (e.g.
Source: https://www.bimco.org/trade/contracts/forward_freight_agreements
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