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Why Hedge Bunkers in Today's Market: Competitive Advantage & Improved Financial Terms
Why Hedge Bunkers in Today's
Market: Competitive Advantage
& Improved Financial Terms by Christopher Cheetham,
Wednesday November 20, 2013
The second installment of our series on bunker hedging will focus on two more compelling
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One of the most important reasons to manage
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price volatility in fuel markets is to secure a
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company's competitive edge. If you ask an executive why his company performs better than the competition, it is highly unlikely that he would cite the ability to purchase fuel at lower prices
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the company offers its customers, reliability and perhaps flexibility with regard to contractual
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The essence of bunker hedging is that it allows a company to remove the risk of price spikes
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from damaging profitability and focus on being a better operator and differentiating its services from the competition. Let us look at two examples:
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A) A pool operator who has traditionally insisted on a fuel clause in charter contracts