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China’s Palm Oil Stocks and Arrivals Weekly (Week 34, 2020)

2020-08-25 www.cofeed.com

I. National stocks

 

Palm oil stocks in China this week stop rising and start falling due to less arrival of palm oil boatloads at ports and substantial deliveries. In the week ending August 21st, edible palm oil stock totals 341,400 tonnes at domestic ports, down by 6.30% from 364,400 tonnes a week earlier; up by 1,100 tonnes or 0.30% from 340,300 tonnes the same period last month; down by 233,500 tonnes or 40.60% from 574,900 tonnes the corresponding period last year. Meanwhile, industrial palm oil stock at domestic ports totals 135,800 tonnes, a decline of 300 tonnes or 0.20% from 136,100 tonnes in the previous week.

 

Region
/Port

Edible Palm Oil Stocks0'000 tonne

Industrial Palm Oil Stocks

W34

W33

Change

M-O-M

Y-O-Y

W34

W33

Change

Tianjin Port

6.6

6.82

-0.22

14.38%

22.22%

2.5

2.9

-0.4

Hebei

0.3

0.4

-0.1

76.47%

-57.14%

0

0.08

-0.08

Shandong Port

1.95

2.6

-0.65

-30.36%

-21.37%

1.15

1.07

0.08

East China

12.35

13.1

-0.75

12.78%

-36.34%

8.1

7.7

0.4

Guangdong

8.13

9.08

-0.95

-18.54%

-64.34%

1.27

1.29

-0.02

Guangxi

3.21

2.41

0.8

-7.76%

8.44%

0.56

0.57

-0.01

Fujian

1.6

2.03

-0.43

81.82%

-57.33%

0

0

0

Total

34.14

36.44

-2.3

0.30%

-40.62%

13.58

13.61

-0.03

 

 

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), flat from last week.

 

III. Margins and Shipments

 

Date

Sailing Schedule

CNF
USD/tonne

Duty Paid
(CNY/tonne)

DCE
(CNY/tonne)

Import Margin

8/17/2020

Oct, 2020

715

5965

5706

-259

8/17/2020

Nov, 2020

702.5

5862

5706

-156

8/17/2020

Dec, 2020

697.5

5821

5706

-115

8/18/2020

Sep, 2020

715

5955

5878

-77

8/19/2020

Sep, 2020

725

6031

5984

-47

8/19/2020

Oct, 2020

712.5

5928

5776

-152

8/19/2020

Nov, 2020

707

5883

5776

-107

8/19/2020

Dec, 2020

700

5825

5776

-49

8/21/2020

Oct, 2020

712.5

5916

5606

-310

8/21/2020

Nov, 2020

692

5748

5606

-142

8/21/2020

Dec, 2020

687.5

5711

5606

-105

 

Date

Cargoes

Sailing Schedule

CNF
USD/tonne

Duty Paid
(CNY/tonne)

Qty.
0'000 tonne

8/17/2020

9

Oct

710

5923

1.2

Nov

691.5

5771

1.2

Nov

692

5775

1.2

Nov

701

5849

1.2

Dec

692

5775

1.2

Dec

685

5718

1.2

Dec

683

5701

3.6

8/18/2020

2

Dec

681

5676

2.4

2

Oct

701

5840

2.4

8/19/2020

1

Sep

720

5990

1.2

1

Oct

710

5908

1.2

3

Dec

695

5784

3.6