Brazil Sugar Line Up: First Vessel to Iran in Over Six Months

  • Slowdown in nominations, with 200kmt added to February lineup.
  • Confirmation of rumours around offtake from Iran.
  • January exports could end below expectations at 1.5mmt.  

CS Brazil Exports

  • Nominations pace have slowed down when compared to the previous weeks of January.
  • With some volume rolled to next month, January should end with 1.5mmt of raws exported.
  • All the volume added this week (around 200kmt) was for February shipments, taking the total to 482kmt.
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  • Whites breakbulk exports continue to rise, with 43kmt added to CS line up this week.
  • Total Q1 nominations stand at 262kmt – the highest volume of the past decade.
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  • As for destination of white breakbulk CS exports, unfortunately there is still 168kmt still pending confirmation.
  • However, we have so far been able to confirm around 30kmt each for Senegal, Ivory Coast and Ghana.

Destinations   

  • First vessel for Iran in over 6 months, with 60kmt of volume.
  • Last year, the country focused its sugar purchases from India and is now looking into other origins.
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  • Out of the new nominations this week, more volume for Algeria.
  • After adding 90kmt last week, another 74kmt were included in the lineup for the African country – nominations are already 68% of the volume registered over Q1 last year.
  • Unfortunately, the remainder of the vessel still have not disclosed their destinations.
  • For more details on Brazilian exports, have a look at our interactive data: Global Shipments. 

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Ana Zancaner

Ana graduated from Insper University Sao Paulo in 2013, with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She joined Czarnikow as an intern in 2013 and is now our senior analyst in our Sao Paulo office. At Czarnikow she is responsible mainly for analysis of the Brazilian sugar and ethanol sector but supporting other consulting requests as well.

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