Argus Africa Fertilizer
Overview
The new Argus Africa Fertilizer price reporting service provides essential transparency on the historically opaque Africa region. The service covers nitrogen, phosphates, potash, compound NPKs, sulphur and industrial ammonium nitrate - delivering weekly price assessments, supply chain insight, news, commentary and proprietary data tracking supply and demand in the region.
In a market first for Africa, the service assesses the cost of shipping fertilizers and sulphur along key trade corridors, providing a new tool for market participants and governments to track and optimize shipments over time.
We empower market participants to make informed business decisions through:
- Independent, highly robust and relied upon weekly price assessments
- Up-to-date and timely reporting on trade, market developments and consequent price movements
- Essential supply chain coverage, including costs and pricing across logistical corridors
- Insightful and actionable commentary from our fertilizer market experts
- Powerful online tools, dashboards and proprietary data
Key features
Key African weekly fertilizer price assessments
Industry-leading, independent and highly robust weekly fertilizer price assessments
Unrivalled methodology
Argus Fertilizer Africa is underpinned by the most robust, transparent and credible market-appropriate methodology, developed with the industry to ensure our price assessments are a true reflection of how the markets trade
Market-moving news and insightful commentary
Argus Africa Fertilizer provides regular news, commentary and analysis from our expert teams of editors and reporters
Coverage of all the key fertilizer commodities
The service includes coverage of nitrogen, phosphates, potash, compound NPKs, sulphur and industrial AN across the entire African continent
Essential logistics insight
Comprehensive coverage of local logistics at ports and border crossings, including trucking costs from ports to key inland hubs
Import lineups and forecasts for key markets
Argus Africa Fertilizer provides import lineups and forecasts for key markets
Detailed coverage of key African tenders
Argus Africa Fertilizer delivers swift and valuable coverage of key African tenders
Concise near-term outlook
Forward-looking analysis including a 30 to 60-day outlook, provided every month
Customers that benefit
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Producers and trading firms
Use Argus fertilizer pricing in the processing and procurement of raw materials and blending. Traders involved in the buying and selling of fertilizers use our price assessments when carrying out trades and contracts. Our price assessments provide domestic and international businesses with accurate, authoritative and methodologically tested certainty on which to base their decisions. They also provide subscribers with a reliable number for indexation in long-term contracts, as well as a tool for market analysis and benchmarking.
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Financial institutions, NGOs and industry associations
Use our service to shed light on an often ill-understood and opaque region, from the state of the fertilizer sector itself to how national governments run their fertilizer markets, the degree of private sector participation and how subsidy and regulatory authority is implemented.
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Not-for-profit organisations
Use our publication to gain a better understanding of how global fertilizer markets work, when is the best time to tender and whether the prices they receive in tenders are representative of market forces.