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CME Group will add five Platts dry-freight futures for trading on November 2, 2026, covering Western Australia, Brazil and US Gulf routes to Qingdao. The contracts include Capesize and Panamax routes and a prompt Brazil-to-Qingdao Panamax contract.
Trading runs through CME Globex with clearing via ClearPort.
The new listed freight hedges give traders and users a way to manage shipping-cost risk on grain flows to China, but they do not by themselves change physical supply or prices.
ad-hoc-news.deRafael MüllerNov 2, 2026Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
