Baltic Exchange
- an association of companies, based in London, whose members are engaged in numerous international trading activities, especially the chartering of vessels to carry cargo波罗的海商业与航运交易所(总部设在伦敦, 其会员参与大量国际贸易活动, 尤其是租赁船舶)。
词源
from the name Virginia and Baltic, one of many coffee houses where shipowners and merchants met in London in the 18th cent., the coffee house being so named by association with areas of much of the trade.