Abstract: The present invention provides a vertical system and method for providing shipping and logistics services, operations and products to the chemical industry. The present invention integrates shipping and logistics services, operations and products that are currently provided by multiple entities into a vertical system that may be presented as a site on the world wide web and provide a user with “one stop” shopping for shipping and logistics services, operations and products by acting as a supply chain integrator to assemble and manage resources, capabilities, and technologies of the user's own organization with those of complementary service providers, thereby enabling manufacturers/producers and logistics service suppliers, both asset based and non-asset based, to collaborate without losing their individual status and identity in the supply chain.

Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for conducting a liquid exchange in a commodity goods marketplace and thereby creating an associated derivatives market. The commodity goods marketplace is implemented as a product trading center in which standardized products in a specific market segment are traded using standardized contracts. Various embodiments of the present invention may also comprise additional means of conducting product transactions and additional ancillary services supporting those transactions. An embodiment of the present invention provides computer network based systems and methods for conducting and facilitating transactions in the commodity polymer marketplace to further produce a derivatives market. The systems and methods of the present invention may be advantageously implemented as a business to business (“B2B”) e-commerce site on the world wide web.