AUSTRALIA’S February exports of containerised wheat totaled 191,116 tonnes, up 9 per cent from the revised January figure of 175,688t, according to the latest shipping data available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
The lift was largely due to increased sales to Vietnam, which totaled 48,441t for the month, up from 33,292t in January.
Table 1: Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showing export data for January and February 2018 and December 2017.
CONTAINERS | Dec | Jan | Feb | Tonnes |
China | 4557 | 5817 | 14261 | 24635 |
Fiji | 2318 | 1821 | 3550 | 7689 |
French Polynesia | 0 | 175 | 0 | 175 |
Hong Kong | 24 | 24 | 24 | 72 |
India | 23 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
Indonesia | 5767 | 15435 | 11257 | 32459 |
Japan | 0 | 2900 | 0 | 2900 |
Malaysia | 23783 | 18103 | 19686 | 61572 |
Myanmar | 24411 | 23918 | 23075 | 71404 |
New Caledonia | 2988 | 3104 | 2882 | 8974 |
New Zealand | 8588 | 9740 | 3584 | 21912 |
Papua New Guinea | 796 | 478 | 673 | 1947 |
Philippines | 16959 | 16942 | 20603 | 54504 |
Saudi Arabia | 1420 | 500 | 2090 | 4010 |
Singapore | 3002 | 3012 | 3458 | 9472 |
Solomon Islands | 1175 | 1967 | 500 | 3642 |
South Korea | 0 | 520 | 554 | 1074 |
Taiwan | 19003 | 21382 | 18575 | 58960 |
Tanzania | 0 | 260 | 245 | 505 |
Thailand | 10085 | 16045 | 17658 | 43788 |
United Kingdom | 0 | 253 | 0 | 253 |
Vietnam | 29388 | 33292 | 48441 | 111121 |
TOTAL | 154287 | 175688 | 191116 | 521091 |
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