Australia ships 1.3Mt wheat in September, down 38pc from August

Australia exported 1,309,094 tonnes of wheat in September, down 38 per cent from the August total of 2,115,064t, according to the latest export data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

South Korea on 213,506t was the biggest market for September exports, followed by China on 135,713t and Indonesia on 119,600t.

Other major volume markets included The Philippines on 98,808t, Japan on 83,805 and Italy.

Italy has been a volume buyer of Australian durum all year, and its second cargo of Australian bread wheat for the year loaded in September to take the total shipped for the month to 80,219t.

From October, Australian export data will reflect new-crop wheat being shipped out of the Central Queensland ports of Gladstone and Mackay as old-crop shipments continue to run down carryover stocks.

Table 1: Australian containerised wheat exports in July, August and September 2021. Source: ABS

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