Richard Watts has over 20 years hands on experience working both within Commodity Trading companies and advising them. Mr. Watts’s expertise covers practically every area of commodity trading in dry and wet including commercial contracts, cargo operations, shipping operations, chartering, CPs and CP disputes, laytime and demurrage, BLs, Trade Finance, Letters of Credit, Cargo and Vessel Insurance.

He regularly consults for a large number of the International Trading companies active in Geneva. He has been a Fellow the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers for over 10 years and is currently the President of the Propeller Club, Port of Geneva.