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It's a hedge bet.
by arctangent 10y ago
It's a hedge bet.
- wastedhours 10y agoI don't claim to understand logistics - but will we see companies pay for slots on the trains as insurance, but not use them if everything's fine? Train company gets a deposit, shipper gets an insurance policy for semi-important payloads?
- arctangent 10y agoI'm fairly sure that such an approach plays a part in what would be a mixed strategy approach to mitigating risk. Other ingredients to the mix would include insurance and complex financial trades (e.g. derivatives).
- wastedhours 10y agoIs there a second-market in freight spots already? As in, I'm guessing major manufacturers need to pre-buy to a certain degree and then might not use them all (or are the shipping companies so over the barrel at the moment that it's a non-issue?)