去年年中，中远在租用船舶业务上赚得盆满钵满，于是，该公司将筹码翻倍，押注租船费将上升，并买入远期运费协议。

Halfway through last year it was sitting on big gains on chartered-in vessels, so it doubled up the bet that charter costs would rise and went long FFAs.

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中远这样的企业经常卖出远期运费协议，以覆盖不得不以低于自己租船的费率转租船舶的风险。

Companies such as Cosco often sell FFAs to cover the risk that they might have to sub-charter vessels at lower rates than they are themselves chartering them.

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所有指数均有所上升，其中定期租船指数前景尤为可观，但远期走势曲线表明将来销售能力的上升将导致运价下跌。

All indices have strengthened with the time-charters showing much promise, but the forward curves reflect more capacity selling in the future leading to lower rates.

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