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It depends: there are 2 types of contracts:

1) Get a certain amount of a certain good at a port by a fixed date. In that case you have to buy it, store it there in own or rented warehouses. You get a fixed price per tonne. You can get the goods from anywhere you want.

2) 1 load of a certain good needs to be transported from a fixed destination to a certain port. You'll get a fixed amount of $ if you do this in time. You don't need to buy the goods, you get them.

-another_guest in Moscow