Domestic cement dispatches in Peru advanced 4.6 per cent YoY to 0.942Mt in February 2025 when compared with the year-ago period, when dispatches reached 0.901Mt, according to the country’s cement association, ASOCEM. Compared with January 2025, the volume was down 5.1 per cent. Of the total, 0.847Mt were dispatches by association members.
Production from Peru’s cement plants increased by 6.6 per cent YoY and 0.6 per cent MoM to 0.872Mt in February 2025. Clinker production saw growth of 19 per cent YoY and 25 per cent MoM to 0.751Mt in the same period.
External trade: cement volumes up, clinker down
In terms of exports, 11,100t of cement was exported, up 7.3 per cent YoY and 8.4 per cent MoM. In February 2024 cement exports reached 10,300t. However, cement companies reported a 49 per cent contraction YoY (50 per cent MoM) in clinker exports, which fell to 36,500t in February 2025 from 71,000t in February 2025.
Cement imports saw a 1214 per cent surge in February 2025 to 53,000t from 4000t in February 2024. When compared with January 2025, there was a 5.7 per cent uptick. Cement was imported from mainly Vietnam, which accounted for 80 per cent, while imports from Chile and Bolivia accounted for 10 per cent each. The average CIF import price via the terminal of Tacna (taking imports from Chile) edged up by two per cent to US$128/t when compared with February 2024, while at the Desaguadero terminal, the price for Bolivian imports remained level at US$96/t. Imports from Vietnam, which were landed at the port of Callao, saw the average CIF import price fall by nine per cent to US$69/t, when compared with March 2024 (there were no cement imports at the port in February 2024).
Clinker imports saw a 44 per cent YoY fall to 36,000t in February 2025 from 64,000t in February 2024. When compared with January 2025, there was an 18 per cent decline. Clinker was imported from Ecuador via the port of Callao, where the average CIF import price was US$60/t, down 9.5 per cent YoY.
