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China’s Palm Oil Stocks and Arrivals Weekly (Week 32, 2020)

2020-08-11 www.cofeed.com

I. National stocks

 

Due to intensive arrival of palm oil cargoes at ports, palm oil stocks this week start rebounding after a fall. In the week ending August 7th, edible palm oil stock totals 353,600 tonnes at domestic ports, up by 21.90% from 290,000 tonnes a week earlier; down by 4,900 tonnes or 1.4% from 358,500 tonnes the same period last month; down by 202,700 tonnes or 36.44% from 556,300 tonnes the corresponding period last year. Meanwhile, industrial palm oil stock at domestic ports totals 128,000 tonnes, a rise of 3,700 tonnes or 2.9% from 124,300 tonnes in the previous week.

 

Region
/Port

Edible Palm Oil Stocks0'000 tonne

Industrial Palm Oil Stocks

W32

W31

Change

M-O-M

Y-O-Y

W32

W31

Change

Tianjin Port

7.72

3.77

3.95

18.76%

-5.85%

3

2.8

0.2

Hebei

0.62

0.73

-0.11

148.00%

106.67%

0

0.13

-0.13

Shandong Port

2.93

3.31

-0.38

-17.46%

-16.76%

1.1

1.12

-0.02

East China

11.53

10.3

1.23

0.70%

-37.51%

6.9

6.75

0.15

Guangdong

8.35

6.59

1.76

-24.98%

-54.86%

1.3

1.27

0.03

Guangxi

1.73

2.67

-0.94

-35.21%

-26.69%

0.5

0.36

0.14

Fujian

2.48

1.63

0.85

726.66%

-42.32%

0

0

0

Total

35.36

29

6.36

-1.40%

-36.44%

12.8

12.43

0.37

 

 

II. Goods Arrivals

 

According to the latest statistics by Cofeed, China is projected to bring in 620,000 tonnes of palm oil (RBD palm olein 500,000 tonnes and industrial palm oil 120,000 tonnes) in August and 570,000 tonnes in September (RBD palm olein 450,000 tonnes and industrial palm oil 120,000 tonnes), unchanged with the estimate a week earlier.

 

III. Margins and Shipments

 

Date

Sailing Schedule

CNF
USD/tonne

Duty Paid
(CNY/tonne)

DCE
(CNY/tonne)

Import Margin

8/3/2020

Sep, 2020

720

5936

5700

-236

8/3/2020

Oct, 2020

695

5806

5700

-106

8/3/2020

Nov, 2020

683

5682

5478

-204

8/3/2020

Dec, 2020

678

5557

5478

-79

8/4/2020

Sep, 2020

715

5998

5984

-14

8/4/2020

Oct, 2020

698

5858

5692

-166

8/4/2020

Nov, 2020

683

5734

5692

-42

8/4/2020

Dec, 2020

678

5692

5692

0

8/5/2020

Oct, 2020

702

5870

5602

-268

8/5/2020

Nov, 2020

688

5755

5602

-153

8/5/2020

Dec, 2020

680

5689

5602

-87

8/6/2020

Oct, 2020

702

5858

5660

-198

8/6/2020

Nov, 2020

690

5760

5660

-100

8/6/2020

Dec, 2020

682

5694

5660

-34

8/7/2020

Sep, 2020

725

6069

5884

-185

8/7/2020

Oct, 2020

710

5945

5630

-315

8/7/2020

Nov, 2020

696

5829

5630

-199

8/7/2020

Dec, 2020

688

5763

5630

-133