The Baltic Exchange then relocated to 38 St Mary Axe on 15 May 1995, before establishing its headquarters at 77 Leadenhall Street in the City of London as well as further offices in Europe, across Asia, and in the United States.

With the rapid expansion of Britain's network of global trade, London's mercantile coffee houses operated as a maritime commercial node for communication and business.

As British influence in trade to Virginia began to wane after American Independence, focus shifted to Russian Empire and other emerging markets.

Historically operating on its trading floor, Baltic members' transactions are nowadays primarily conducted via other means of communication (eg.

The exchange is the source of market-wide information and publishes seven daily indices made up from a suite of wet and dry bench-marked time-charter and voyage routes: In April 2018, the Baltic Exchange announced a global container index called the Freightos Baltic Index (FBX)[5] in partnership with Freightos.