| 摘要 |
A method and system for an electronic commodities trading marketplace along with ancillary tools provide an electronic trading center (400) for world market commodity importers, exporters, and the intermediaries and processors between them. This trading center is offered through its website centered around a 24-hour exchange that provides trading markets for commodities such as coffee, sugar, cocoa and cotton. The scalable system provides aggregated third party services linked to both front and back office operations. These services can include items such as live futures quotes (414) and real-time news (404), futures brokerage (410), banking and finance links (420) and resources, and a suite of applications tailored to members' specific risk-management and end-to-end contract execution needs (426). The system also provides access to shipping related services such as freight brokerage, direct booking for liner transport, load and discharge supervision and laboratory testing. |
