ICE Announces Rapid Growth in Marine Fuel and Wet Freight Complex a Year on From IMO 2020
Since February 2019, ICE has launched a series of cash settled Marine Fuel products which settle against the S&P Global Platts physical Marine Fuel 0.5% assessments, including a further 15 contracts which launched in December 2020.
- Since February 2019, ICE has launched a series of cash settled Marine Fuel products which settle against the S&P Global Platts physical Marine Fuel 0.5% assessments, including a further 15 contracts which launched in December 2020.
- In an increasingly volatile pricing environment globally, companies are choosing to hedge their underlying exposure to marine and freight markets.
- Customers are trading ICE Marine Fuel contracts as outright futures, time spreads, differentials to High Sulphur Fuel Oil, Brent, or Low Sulphur Gasoil.
- So called 5GOs - where customers trade 0.5% Marine Fuel Differentials to ICE Low Sulphur Gasoil - are increasingly used.