Australia losing relevance as a global wheat exporter
- molly510
- Sep 11, 2019
- 1 min read
The Australian Bureau of Statistics released their July export data last week and the grain numbers undoubtedly reflect the effects of last year's drought and the many dilemmas for Australian exporters this year.
Wheat exports for July came in at 737,000 metric tonne (MT). This was up from the June number of just 585,000MT but well down on the 1.227 million metric tonne (MMT) exported in May, the biggest wheat export month of the current marketing season (October 2018 to August 2019).
Not surprisingly, Western Australia and South Australia accounted for almost the entire volume, shipping 494,000MT and 216,000MT respectively. The balance of 27,000MT were container shipments from east coast (Queensland, New South Wales and Victorian) ports.
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