Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange
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Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange
a London-based MARKET which is concerned with arranging FREIGHT facilities for cargo consignments moved by sea and air, and which also acts as a retail commodity exchange for dealings in cereals. See CORN EXCHANGE, COMMODITY MARKET.Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson