Palm | Kelapa Sawit

Jakarta-. PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk., (Aali) until October 2011 record sales volume of palm oil (crude palm oil / palm oil) amounted to 1.01 million tons.
CPO sales figures were up 17.7% over the same period of 2010 as many as 889,996 tons, said Investor Relations Aali, Yarmanto, in Jakarta, Monday (21/11).

He said the increase is sustained by sales of the domestic market reached 971,119 tons, up by 813,523 compared to previous periods tons. "The volume of domestic sales grew by 19.4%," he said.

While the volume of the company's palm oil exports totaled only 40,539 thousand or slumped 47% over the same period in 2010 amounted to 76,473 tons.

While the average price of CPO Aali up to October 2011 increased by 13.6% ie from Rp6.765 per kilogram in the same period last year to Rp7.688 per kilogram this year.

For the average price of the kernel also increased by 23.4% to Rp4.660 per kilogram over the same period in 2010 by Rp3.776 per kilogram.

Previously, according to Oil World reports, in 2011 this world CPO consumption is projected to be at approximately 48.91 million tons, an increase of 5.3% over the same period the previous year of 46.45 million tonnes. During that period, the countries major palm oil consumer absorbs 62.2% or approximately 30.42 million tons. (ant)/MB