Argus Russian Fertilizers
Overview
This service provides valuable analysis of the international market for nitrogen, phosphate and potash fertilizers, offering key insight on price trends and foreign trade. Once every two weeks, subscribers receive an overview of the Russian fertilizer market, including pricing data and price movements. Coverage of the Russian fertilizer market also includes an analysis of the supply and demand balance, data from railway forwarders on fertilizer shipments to key agricultural regions of the country, and market commentary.
The service contains a monthly overview of the Russian sulphur market, including the prices for export cargoes of granulated sulphur at the port of St. Petersburg. Additionally, we provide regular analysis of the lease market for various types of rolling stock used for the transportation of fertilizers.
Each issue of the Argus Fertilizers of Russia report features calculations of netbacks for fertilizer and sulphur producers in Russia and Kazakhstan, tariffs for transit via neighboring countries, the Russian railways tariff for transportation of fertilizers across Russia, lease rates for various types of railcars, fertilizer transshipment costs at the ports of the Black and Baltic Seas and other market indicators.
Key features
Market analysis
Overview of fertilizer prices in the Russian market, including: ammonium nitrate, urea, urea-ammonium nitrate solutions (UAN), ammonium sulphate, ammonium phosphate, NPK fertilizers, MOP and others.
Price movements
Graphs of price assessment trends for key fertilizers on various terms of delivery
Netbacks
Netbacks for fertilizers and sulphur
Analysis of the packaged sulphur market
Price assessment for sulphur in big bags on a cpt St. Petersburg basis
Sulphur market overview
Monthly review of the Russian sulphur market, including export shipments
Data on rail transportation
Overview of the rolling stock market for fertilizer transportation (published once a month)
Customers that benefit
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Fertilizer producers and suppliers
In Russia, Belarus and central Asia use Argus price assessments as price references when selling their products as well as in formula pricing.
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Agricultural producers
Rely on Argus pricing data to estimate possible costs for the purchase of fertilizers.
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Transportation and logistics companies, stevedoring companies and freight forwarders
Use Argus data to analyse key market indicators and use our price assessments in settlements with counterparties.
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Government regulators
The Ministry of Finance and the Federal Tax Service (FTS) rely on Argus price indexes (price assessments) to control the foreign trade of exporters as well as to calculate the mineral extraction tax.
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Banking and financial analysts
Use Argus data to assess the investment attractiveness of the industry and market players, build financial models.