According to the statistics released in Brazil, the quantities on material base of ferroniobium exported from Brazil in January to March of 2010.
Namely, Brazil exported 6,097 tonnes in material of ferroniobium in March of 2010, which increased by 11.6% as compared with that of 5,463 tonnes in the previous month of February and also had a considerable increase of 2.1 times compared to that in the same month of 2009.
The exports of ferroniobium from Brazil touched the bottom at 2,086 tonnes in January of 2009 but, after that, continued to recover and finally returned to the same level as that in October of 2008. For a reference, the unit price of Brazilian ferroniobium averaged on exports in March was USD 23,119 per tonne, having had a slight fall from that of USD 23,205 in February.
In consequence of that Brazil increased their exports of ferroniobium from the beginning of 2010, the total quantity of ferroniobium exported from Brazil in January to March quarter of 2010 had reached 15,565 tonnes on material base, which had a substantial increase of 2.1 times compared with that of 7,524 tonnes in the same quarter of 2009 but decreased by 16% compared to that in the same quarter of 2008.
The quantities of ferroniobium exported from Brazil to main destinations in January to March quarter of 2010 were for Netherlands: 4,558 tonnes, up by 3 timed from that in the same quarter of 2009, for China: 3,847 tonnes, up by 55.8% from that in 2009, for Singapore: 2,276 tonnes, up by 83.5% from that in 2009, for USA: 2,070 tonnes, up by 3.9 times from that in 2009 and for Japan: 1,415 tonnes, up by 2.3 times from that in 2009, having shown a remarkable recovery from that in the same quarter of 2009. In comparison with the exports in the same period of 2008, the quantities of Brazilian ferroniobium exported in January to March of 2010 were unable to expand substantially for shipments to Netherlands, China, the USA and Japan, but the exports for Singapore in the first quarter of 2010 had a remarkable increase of 3.3 times compared to that in the same quarter of 2008.
Brazil exported 74,601 tonnes in total of ferroalloys in January to March quarter of 2010, which had a considerable increase of 57.3% as compared with that in the same quarter of 2009, and the quantities of main ferroalloys exported from Brazil in the first three months of 2010 were high carbon ferromanganese: 1,906 tonnes, down by 20.9% from that in the same quarter of 2009, ferrosilicon (with Si 55% min): 36,541 tonnes, up by 69.1% from that in 2009, silicomanganese: 8,815 tonnes, up by 4.2 times from that in 2009 and high carbon ferrochrome: 507 tonnes, up by 14.1 times from that in 2009. The export of low carbon ferromanganese from Brazil in January to March quarter of 2010 was only 2 kilograms, which had nearly nothing in comparison with that of 580 tonnes exported from Brazil in the same quarter of 2009.
(Sourced from TEX Report Limited)
