Commodities in Focus Weekly: Rhine Shipping DMCC v Vitol S.A – Internal offsetting of price risk exposure not equivalent to external hedging

The Commercial Court distinguished between the internal risk management processes of large oil traders that 'net off' the price risk exposure of different physical transactions and external hedging arrangements entered into with third parties. It held that the former are not to be brought into account when assessing the quantum of loss.

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