IMOS | Trading & Risk
Proactively manage your maritime freight and fuel risk
Dynamically measure, manage, and mitigate your organization’s freight and bunker exposure to market fluctuations with dynamic position visibility, advanced scenario testing, and comprehensive pricing and benchmarking.
Visualize market shifts and their impact on your business
IMOS’s Trading & Risk module provides risk managers and freight traders the ability to systematically visualize how market shifts affect their freight and bunker positions, properly align contracts, and save valuable time.
With IMOS Trading & Risk, you can:
Properly align contracts by considering contract commitments and actualized data
Make better decisions by automating complex mark-to-market calculations and testing “what if” scenarios
Accurately assess voyage results by considering both physical and paper contracts
Measure performance and shape strategic action with robust analyses on exposure
Manage and mitigate freight and fuel risk from anywhere in the world
What can IMOS Trading & Risk help you achieve?
Proactively manage your freight and fuel exposure
Dynamic Position Visibility
Track your mark-to-market at all times
Dynamic Position Visibility in IMOS Trading & Risk calculates your position and market P&L instantly by automatically combining planned and actual voyage results with external price feeds.
Advanced Scenario Planning
Test decisions before you make them
Advanced Scenario Planning enables you to understand every aspect of your physical and paper freight and fuel trades and their impact on your P&L by applying forecasts, stress tests, and “what if” scenarios.
Comprehensive Pricing & Benchmarking
Benchmark your performance against the market
Comprehensive Pricing & Benchmarking empowers you to systematically benchmark your business against the market to perform effective maritime freight & fuel risk management with full support for index-linked hire and freight-over-variable options and periods, bunker adjustment factors, and embedded derivatives.
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“Veson has an incredible tool for risk management. It is better, in a more pertinent way, than the competition to serve our needs. And for the kind of company that we are today, that has been quite important.”
Lorenzo d’Amico | Deputy Manager of Operations
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Frequently asked questions on IMOS Trading & Risk
IMOS Trading & Risk is a comprehensive maritime freight and fuel risk management solution that gives risk managers and freight traders the ability to systematically visualize how market shifts affect their positions, align physical and paper contracts, automate mark-to-market calculations, and test decisions before making them.
IMOS Trading & Risk is used by shipping risk managers, freight traders, and portfolio management teams who need a comprehensive view of physical and derivative contracts and net exposure to support better trading decisions. Risk managers use it for portfolio management and hedging, while freight traders use it to trade for profit across freight and bunker markets.
IMOS Trading & Risk’s dynamic position visibility calculates an organization’s market position and P&L instantly by automatically combining planned and actual voyage results with external price feeds — including data from the Baltic Exchange. This gives risk managers a real-time, continuously updated view of their freight and bunker exposure without manual calculation or data entry.
IMOS Trading & Risk’s advanced scenario planning enables teams to understand the full impact of physical and paper freight and fuel trades on their P&L by applying forecasts, stress tests, and “what if” scenarios before committing to a decision. This allows organizations to proactively test decisions, model market shifts, and adapt their positions as conditions evolve.
IMOS Trading & Risk supports comprehensive pricing and benchmarking, enabling organizations to systematically benchmark their business against the market with full support for index-linked hire, freight-over-variable options and periods, bunker adjustment factors, and embedded derivatives. The Freight Matrix tool also allows teams to compare multiple vessels against a benchmark across a range of target TCEs and bunker prices.
IMOS Trading & Risk supports a broad range of physical and paper trade types, including Forward Freight Agreements (FFAs), FFA options, bunker swaps, bunker options, commodity trades, cargo contracts, VC In trades, and time charter contracts. Physical and paper positions are managed in one integrated system, enabling accurate net exposure calculation and hedging across the full trade book.
IMOS Trading & Risk sits across Veson’s fixture-to-finance workflow — drawing physical contract data directly from IMOS Chartering and Operations, flowing trade settlements into IMOS Financials, and making exposure positions visible alongside voyage P&L in a single connected system. Pre-fixture market intelligence from Shipfix further enriches the trading picture from the earliest stage of commercial decision-making, ensuring risk managers have a complete view from first inquiry to final settlement.