波罗的海交易所的一名货运评估员在与一名经纪人的通话中表示，伊朗战争爆发后，要让公司提供油轮运价，“一定程度的哄劝和施压”是必要的。
A freight assessor at the Baltic Exchange told a broker that “a certain amount of cajoling and bullying” was necessary to get companies to provide tanker rates after the Iran war broke out.
这一言论是在伦敦法庭审理的第三天披露的。商品贸易商美丘里能源集团（Mercuria Energy Group）起诉波罗的海交易所，主张后者本应在伊朗战争导致霍尔木兹海峡航运受阻后，暂停发布全球基准油轮运价。
The comments emerged in a London court on the third day of a trial in which commodity trader Mercuria Energy Group is claiming that the Baltic Exchange should have suspended the world’s benchmark oil tanker rate after disruptions caused by the Iran war to traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
波罗的海交易所依赖经纪人提供的投入数据来发布价格，其中包括有争议的从波斯湾内部至中国的航线。波罗的海交易所坚持认为，即使在战争爆发后几个月内霍尔木兹海峡的石油运输严重受阻，仍可利用经纪人的评估给货运风险定价。
The Baltic Exchange relies on broker inputs to publish prices, including for the disputed route from inside the Persian Gulf to China. The Baltic maintains it was still possible to put a price on the freight risk using broker assessments, even after oil shipments through Hormuz were severely disrupted in the months following the start of the war.
美丘里的律师大卫·沃尔夫森（David Wolfson）宣读了波罗的海交易所一名员工与一名经纪人之间的通话记录：“这里的波罗的海高级评估员指的是，波罗的海正在哄劝和施压评估小组成员继续进行评估，”他说。
Mercuria’s lawyer David Wolfson read from the transcript of a call between a Baltic Exchange employee and a broker: “The Baltic’s senior assessor here is referring to the fact the Baltic was cajoling and bullying panelists to continue assessing,” he said.
针对施压指控，波罗的海交易所首席执行官马克·杰克逊（Mark Jackson）在法庭上表示：“如果真发生了，就不该发生。”“如果我知道他们施压评估小组成员，我想我不会高兴，”杰克逊说。但他补充称，施加压力让经纪人思考伊朗战争带来的各种因素是可以接受的。
In response to the accusation of bullying, Baltic Chief Executive Officer Mark Jackson said in court: “If it did happen, it shouldn’t have happened.”“I don’t think that I would be happy if I knew that they had bullied the panelists,” Jackson said. Still, putting pressure on brokers was acceptable to make them think about the factors at play as a result of the Iran war, he added.
成立于1774年的波罗的海交易所在制定全球航运费率方面发挥着核心作用。
Founded in 1774, the Baltic Exchange plays a central role in setting global shipping rates.
此案的核心在于，伊朗战争爆发后的几天里，波罗的海交易所继续发布从沙特阿拉伯拉斯塔努拉港至中国的油运费率是否仍然有效。有争议的TD3C基准费率是油轮船东与其客户之间合同以及数十亿美元衍生品合约的基础。
The case centers on whether it was still valid for the Baltic Exchange to continue publishing rates to ship oil from the Saudi Arabian port of Ras Tanura to China in the days after the Iran war broke out. The disputed benchmark TD3C rate underpins contracts between tanker owners and their customers as well as billions of dollars in derivatives.
伊朗战争通过削减霍尔木兹海峡的船运，使全球大宗商品市场陷入动荡，德黑兰在冲突初期宣布该海峡关闭。霍尔木兹海峡的船运流量此后已恢复至接近战前水平。
The Iran war threw global commodity markets into turmoil by slashing shipments through Hormuz, which Tehran declared closed in the early days of the conflict. Flows through Hormuz have since recovered close to pre-war levels.
梅库里亚敦请法院宣布，波罗的海交易所违反其义务，本应暂停TD3C航线。波罗的海交易所和梅库里亚均未立即回应置评请求。
Mercuria is urging the court to declare that the Baltic Exchange breached its obligations and ought to have suspended the TD3C route. The Baltic Exchange and Mercuria didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.