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Australia’s November wheat exports at 319,537t down 21pc over month

Liz Wells January 29, 2019

AUSTRALIA’S wheat exports in November totalled 319,537 tonnes, down 21 per cent from the October figure of 406,417t, according to the latest shipment data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

In the bulk market, Malaysia, Japan and Kuwait were the biggest customers, while in containerised exports, Myanmar accounted for more than half of the monthly total.

ABS data showed Indonesia took an unusually small amount of wheat at 2531t in bulk and containers combined, which is a likely indicator of its use of Black Sea wheat in the November-shipment slot.

BULK Sep Oct Nov Tonnes
Fiji 14500 0 0 14500
Indonesia 55875 92134 1004 149014
Iraq 308606 0 0 308606
Japan 77197 70273 64149 211619
Korea 150045 0 33000 183045
Kuwait 44780 45097 44600 134477
Malaysia 16348 14000 60500 90848
New Zealand 0 49746 0 49746
Papua New Guinea 22000 21000 41800 84800
Singapore 15400 0 0 15400
Thailand 25849 0 0 25849
Vietnam 29566 49500 0 79066
TOTAL 760166 341750 245053 1346970

Table 1: ABS bulk wheat export data for September, October and November 2018.

CONTAINERS Sep Oct Nov Tonnes
China 1922 4175 1322 7420
Fiji 2393 2638 3246 8277
Hong Kong 24 24 0 48
Indonesia 5409 1398 1527 8335
Japan 603 467 0 1070
Korea 260 259 0 519
Malaysia 9275 6455 5537 21266
Myanmar 26168 23954 37650 87772
New Caledonia 3403 1190 1489 6083
New Zealand 7469 5617 5494 18580
Papua New Guinea 299 48 1030 1377
Philippines 3266 4528 2579 10372
Saudi Arabia 1510 0 510 2020
Singapore 1790 0 0 1790
Solomon Islands 1201 2390 499 4090
Taiwan 7287 2002 506 9795
Thailand 2590 4261 5308 12159
UK 0 0 253 253
Vietnam 2465 5259 7533 15257
TOTAL 77333 64667 74484 216483

Table 2: ABS containerised wheat export data for September, October and November 2018

 

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