熟料成本上升 孟加拉水泥价格上涨20%
昂贵的熟料使孟加拉一些小水泥公司濒临停产,一些企业则开始出口水泥到印度东部。熟料价格上涨到45美金每吨,几个月前还是30美金。水泥公司认为是去年12月的印度洋海啸破坏了印度和泰国的熟料生产线和港口,使熟料价格上涨了50%,孟加拉每年需要约600万吨的熟料。当地水泥公司认为:由于海啸受灾国家开始了重建基础设施,这些国家都减少熟料出口,这使得孟加拉国熟料短缺。
运输成本增加是一个方面。除了油价上涨以外,运输设备也不够。通常情况下,旧的运输设备相对便宜,但是由于中国大量的建筑需要钢材,运输商认为做运输不如卖旧设备合算。
大量的投资使孟加拉国拥有较大的水泥产能。目前40家水泥公司拥有1500万吨的年产能,但是孟加拉的水泥消费仅700万吨。
据中国水泥网了解,拉法基孟加拉Surma水泥公司的投产将会给孟加拉的水泥市场带来较大的冲击,该水泥厂年产能可达120万吨。
原文:
Cement prices rise 20pc on high clinker costs, freight charges
Cement prices have shot up by 20 percent in domestic market over the last three months as manufacturers feel the bite of high freight charges and clinker prices.
A 50-kg bag is now selling between Tk 265 and Tk 275, which was Tk 220-230 three months ago. Local cement producers, who fully depend on foreign sources for clinker, the main raw material, say high freight charges combined with rising prices of clinker have led to the situation.
The sudden heat in the cement market has ultimately affected general people as real estate companies have increased apartment prices by Tk 200 per square foot.
The costly clinker puts some small cement companies on the verge of production halt when local producers start exporting to overcome market saturation. Some local companies have started exporting cement to the eastern states of India.
The clinker prices went up to $45 a tonne from $30 a few months back, marking a 50 percent rise which cement companies attribute to the December 26 tsunamis that damaged clinker sites and port facilities in Indonesia and Thailand. Bangladesh needs 6 million tonnes of clinker a year.
"As tsunami-hit countries have started re-building their infrastructure, they reduce export of clinker, causing scarcity of the raw material," says a senior official of a local cement company.
Freight charges for carrying clinker have also shot up in a big way. Importers now have to pay $22,000 to $25,000 per day to hire a 25,000-tonne capacity vessel which was only $7,000 to $8,000 until September 2003, he said.
Apart from soaring oil prices, the abnormal freight charges are also blamed to non-availability of vessels. Usually old vessels, which are considered comparatively cheaper, are used to carry clinker to save marine insurance cost, he said.
But as demand for steel goes up significantly in China due to massive construction activities ahead of Olympic games, the owners of old vessels find it lucrative to scrap and sell the old vessels instead of engaging the vessels for clinker transportation, the official added. Ship scrap is the main raw material of steel.
Investment saturation puts Bangladesh on huge cement production base. At present, some 40 operational companies have a total production capacity of 1.5 crore tonne a year while the consumption is only 70 lakh tonnes.
Industry sources say when Lafarge Surma Cement goes into production in 2006 it may create a huge glut in cement market. The lone integrated dry process cement plant in Bangladesh will produce 1.2 million tonnes per year.
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