Cement News tagged: Trading
Cement exports rise for Vietnam producers
Vietnam exported 12.45Mt of cement and clinker in the last 11 months or 2013, representing a YoY increase of almost 63 per cent. Tran Van Huynh, president of the Vietnam Construction Materials Association (VCMA), said the rise in exports was an attempt to clear surplus inventory because of low prices and similar situation in many countries. During the period, the country’s total cement sales...
Pakistan: US$5 cement bag on the way
The price of a bag of cement in Sindh and Balochistan has jumped beyond PKR500 (US$4.70), a private news channel reports. Cement industry sources were quoted as saying that the cement price has been increased in the range of PKR10-20/bag (US$0.09-0.19), due to the power tariff hike and rise in the international prices of coal, which has pushed up the per bag price of cement towards US$5. ...
Vietnam cement industry exports 14Mt
Vietnam's cement exports are expected to reach nearly 14Mt in 2013, the highest level ever exported. According to the Industry and Trade newspaper, in the first 11 months of this year the country exported 12.5Mt of cement, a YoY rise of nearly 65 per cent. Southeast Asia and the Middle East are the two main markets for Vietnam's cement, while Malaysia and Indonesia are the nation's largest i...
Bolivia announces Peruvian cement import
Insumos Bolivia plans the import of Peruvian cement to meet the shortage of cement in Bolivia’s domestic market. It has approached Yura de Perú for the delivery of Portland cement. The government body has denied reports of supply problems and maintains it holds a stock of 80,000 bags. The imports would be purchased “to supply the construction sector with a quality product and without sales...
Fiji is raising cement prices
A detailed analysis by Fiji's Commerce Commission following a cement price submission from Fiji Industries Ltd (FIL) has resulted in a price increase for the building product. The commission approved a 2.7 per cent increase in the wholesale price of bagged and bulk cement effective 1 November 2013. This means consumers will pay US$6.14 more on the present price of US$227.63 for the general pu...
Pakistan: cement prices rise
Electricity tariffs and other inflationary pressures have put pressure on cement manufacturers in Pakistan to increase cement prices. Cement producers have increased their prices by PKR15-20/50kg bag (US$0.14-0.19), a brokerage house reported yesterday. “Local cement prices have increased by 15-20 per 50kg bag, an increase of three to four per cent, over average retail prices that are curren...
Pakistan: July-August cement exports up by 5.7%
Pakistan's cement exports increased 5.72 per cent during the first two months of current FY13-14, totalling US$96.796m, against the same period of last year when exports were US$91.557m. On a MoM basis, cement exports also increased by 1.24 per cent, but decreased by 12.03 per cent in August 2013 when compared with the exports in August 2012 and July 2013. The value of exports in August 201...
Azerbaijan increases imports from Georgia
In the 1H13 249,770t of cement valued at US$18.45m was exported from Georgia to Azerbaijan, according to Georgia's national statistics service, GruzStat. The share of this category in the total volume of Georgian exports to Azerbaijan in the 1H13 constituted 5.54 per cent. In comparison with the same period, the export of cement from Georgia increased by 28.48 per cent or by 53,700t.
Peru: cement shipments rise
Peru's ASOCEM cement association reports that in July its members delivered 88,277t of cement in the domestic market. The January to July shipments are up YoY for the same period by 11 per cent rise, while a total of 16,349t of cement were also exported during July 2013.
Cement prices in China keep rising
Although China's cement sales are outside their peak season, the average cement price in the country has continued to rise over the past week, according to the latest data from industry information provider Digital Cement. The average cement price witnessed a week-on-week increase of 0.2 per cent between 12-16 August and cement prices in some regions have approached the peak experienced in ...
Zambezi Portland reduces cement exports
Zambezi Portland Cement Limited (ZPC) has reduced its export sales by 50 per cent, effective from 1 August 2013, to cater for the increased demand of the product on the local market. ZPC sales and marketing manager Isaac Ngoma announced in a statement in Ndola yesterday that the company which had been exporting more than 14,000tpm of cement to neighbouring countries, will now reduce exports ...
Indian cement prices mount June recovery
All-India cement prices saw an uptrend led by price hikes across all regions in the country. The southern region saw an average price rise of INR30/bag (US$0.50), the highest among all regions, which took the all-India average June 2013 prices to INR308/bag (US$5.10) as compared to INR294/bag (US$4.86) in May 2013. In the east and west region, prices advanced by INR15-20/bag, which took a...
Inner Mongolia's Erlian Port cement export up 102% in May
Erlian Port in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region exported 186,300t of cement, worth US$9.14m, in May 2013, a YoY increase of 101.84 per cent and 87.74 per cent, respectively, sources reported.
Saudi Arabia: 35,000t of imported cement shipments
Saudi Port Authority (SPA) says cement shipments have been coming since the start of implementing the decrees of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to import 10Mt of cement to cover local demand. About 350,000t of cement have reached from the UAE and Egypt through various Saudi ports. "Shipments have come through Dammam, Jeddah and Jazan ports, some through Yanbu, and some oth...
Ghana: cement prices rising
Cement prices in Ghana have been rising by the day with retail prices currently around GHS274 (US$136). Ex-factory prices are cheaper than retail prices so the tariff posted at the Ghacem (HeidelbergCement) plant on 24 June indicated that a bag of cement costs GHS260 (US$129), effective 20 June 2013, when buying 1000 bags or above. For orders of 100+ bags only the price rises to GHS265 (US...
Iraq to stop importing Iranian cement?
Iran currently exports cement to 24 countries with around 97 per cent of total cement export destined for seven countries. Iraq heads the rankings with a 63 per cent share of Iranian cement exports, followed by Turkmenistan at seven per cent and Azerbaijan at four per cent. According to Deputy Head of Khuzestan’s Cement Exporters Union Sadeq Sava’edi, Iraq will stop importing Iranian cemen...