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China’s Palm Oil Stocks and Arrivals Weekly (Week 33, 2020)

2020-08-18 www.cofeed.com

I. National stocks

 

Palm oil stocks this week continue picking up amid increasing arrival of palm oil boatloads at ports. In the week ending August 14th, edible palm oil stock totals 364,400 tonnes at domestic ports, up by 3.05% from 353,600 tonnes a week earlier; up by 1,200 tonnes or 0.30% from 363,200 tonnes the same period last month; down by 163,300 tonnes or 30.95% from 527,700 tonnes the corresponding period last year. Meanwhile, industrial palm oil stock at domestic ports totals 136,100 tonnes, a rise of 8,100 tonnes or 6.3% from 128,000 tonnes in the previous week.

 

Region
/Port

Edible Palm Oil Stocks0'000 tonne

Industrial Palm Oil Stocks

W33

W32

Change

M-O-M

Y-O-Y

W33

W32

Change

Tianjin Port

6.82

7.72

-0.9

-9.90%

9.12%

2.9

3

-0.1

Hebei

0.4

0.62

-0.22

166.66%

-50.00%

0.08

0

0.08

Shandong Port

2.6

2.93

-0.33

-16.13%

-3.70%

1.07

1.1

-0.03

East China

13.1

11.53

1.57

8.26%

-26.82%

7.7

6.9

0.8

Guangdong

9.08

8.35

0.73

-8.28%

-53.07%

1.29

1.3

-0.01

Guangxi

2.41

1.73

0.68

-18.86%

25.52%

0.57

0.5

0.07

Fujian

2.03

2.48

-0.45

283.02%

-47.27%

0

0

0

Total

36.44

35.36

1.08

0.33%

-30.95%

13.61

12.8

0.81

 

 

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. And palm oil imports in October are expected to be 570,000 tonnes (RBD palm olein 450,000 tonnes and industrial palm oil 120,000 tonnes).

 

III. Margins and Shipments

 

Date

Sailing Schedule

CNF
USD/tonne

Duty Paid
(CNY/tonne)

DCE
(CNY/tonne)

Import Margin

8/11/2020

Oct, 2020

708

5915

5562

-353

8/11/2020

Nov, 2020

691

5775

5562

-213

8/11/2020

Dec, 2020

684

5717

5562

-155

8/12/2020

Sep, 2020

710

5933

5702

-231

8/12/2020

Oct, 2020

692

5785

5480

-305

8/12/2020

Nov, 2020

672

5620

5480

-140

8/12/2020

Dec, 2020

665

5562

5480

-82

8/13/2020

Sep, 2020

730

6089

5876

-213

8/13/2020

Oct, 2020

715

5965

5694

-271

8/13/2020

Nov, 2020

695

5801

5694

-107

8/13/2020

Dec, 2020

688

5743

5694

-49

8/14/2020

Sep, 2020

725

6052

5830

-222

8/14/2020

Oct, 2020

710

5929

5622

-307

8/14/2020

Nov, 2020

688

5748

5622

-126

8/14/2020

Dec, 2020

680

5682

5622

-60

 

Date

Cargoes

Sailing Schedule

CNF
USD/tonne

Duty Paid
(CNY/tonne)

Qty.
0'000 tonne

8/12/2020

1

Dec

658

5504

1.2

8/14/2020

1

Nov

678

6250

1.2