OW Bunker Switzerland opened in October 2005. The office is primarily taking care of the risk management of the exposure within the OW group subject to price risk. The aim of this task is to even out the result in order to prevent the result from fluctuating in the same volatile manner as the oil prices. The exposure stems mainly from physical stocks and facilities around the world.

Apart from facilitating plain hedging for the OW group OW Bunker Switzerland also enters into trading i.e. taking positions in the financial market for fuel- and gasoil. Both the hedging and the trading are done on the over-the-counter market in Rotterdam; the Mediterranean and Singapore and on the International Petroleum Exchange/ ICE in London through swaps, futures and options. The trading falls under the restrictions of the OW board of directors and the aim is to create profit.