Shanghai bonded base metal inventories mostly down in August, but aluminium up 119%

Favorable import terms sent the levels of base-metals stocks in Shanghai bonded warehouses in different directions over August 2023, with copper, zinc and nickel stocks declining by varying amounts, while aluminium stocks jumped by 118.8%.

Aluminium stocks up massively
Shanghai bonded inventories of aluminium showed a significant increase in August when the import arbitrage improved, Fastmarkets has heard.

Fastmarkets assessed Shanghai bonded aluminium stock volumes...

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Sally Zhang

Ruby Liu

Yiwen Ju

Dylan Duan

Shiyue Zhao

September 05, 2023

14:08 GMT

Shanghai, Singapore