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Tracking supply, demand, prices and trade policy for Middle East minerals — reference for your procurement decisions.
Coated carbonate is 13.6 Mt a year at about $255 per tonne, with plastics taking 52%. Bulk GCC sits near $150-210/t and engineered PCC near $260-340/t, which is why the quotes are not comparable.
A 403 km rail link from Al-Shidiyeh to Aqaba is meant to move 13 Mt of phosphate a year. It cuts inland logistics cost, not mine output, so what should buyers price in now.
Container lines are moving back to the Suez Canal. Through October 2026, nearly all of the major ocean carriers are preparing to resume Suez transits, ending close to two years of routing around the Cape of…
Bangladesh has booked another large DAP parcel, and this time the price moved in the buyer's favour. On 7 October 2026, the country's Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase approved the import of 40,000 tonnes of diammonium…
India began rabi 2026-27 with DAP stocks 17% higher year on year and a subsidy bill heading past INR 3 trillion, as New Delhi prepares a differential DAP subsidy that could favour domestic production from imported…
Fertiliser deliveries to Brazil fell 5.4% in H1 2026 to 19.02 million tonnes, with phosphates the weakest link. Sulphur above USD 1,000 per tonne has idled capacity in Minas Gerais and Goias, and buyers are pre-buying…
Construction at Ma'aden's Ras Al Khair phosphate fertiliser project reached a late-stage milestone in late September, while the same producer cut DAP output 28% and trimmed full-year guidance on sulphur supply and logistics constraints.
DTN's late-September retail survey put DAP at USD 925/t and MAP at USD 967/t, with seven of eight nutrients above year-ago levels. Supply remains constrained by export restrictions, record sulphur costs and producer curtailments.
Egypt's mining forum set out 480,000 t/y of phosphoric acid from Abu Tartour by late 2028 and no new raw phosphate export contracts. Jordan holds near $90s FOB Aqaba.
September brought a wave of billion-yuan calcium projects in Jiangxi and Guangxi, focused on nano calcium carbonate and high-surface-area calcium hydroxide.
Each tonne of phosphoric acid yields about 4-5 tonnes of phosphogypsum. September brought a 2 million tonne acid project in Hubei and a RMB 20/t reward tied to mining quotas.
September 2026 freight update: the H1 BDI average ran 82% above last year and SCFI rose seven weeks straight, lifting imported mineral landed cost.
The value of mineral news is not knowing what happened, but knowing what it means for your sourcing. Read with three questions in mind: does this affect total supply, the price level, or the compliance barrier? The response differs in each case.
Export restrictions, licensing or contract suspensions directly reshape the available supply. Three layers matter: does the policy cover all grades or specific ones; are already-signed contracts affected; and where would replacement supply come from, at what haul distance? When high-grade exports tighten, some demand shifts to lower grades and the cost structure changes along the chain. The right response is to reassess the sourcing mix, not to judge the price direction.
Utilisation of domestic mines, seaborne arrivals and fertiliser plant run-rates reflect actual domestic demand. For importers these are leading indicators of whether a short-term shortage is likely. Monthly swings in arrivals are especially worth tracking: they show both supply rhythm and inventory behaviour along the trading chain.
Sulphur, sulphuric acid and natural gas feed into the chain: additives → phosphoric acid → fertiliser → ore demand. Sulphur tightness, for example, raises acid costs, then fertiliser costs, and ultimately changes how much ore buyers want to hold. Such pass-through is usually lagged but directionally clear, so acting early on inventory and procurement beats reacting late.
The action after reading is to return to your own spreadsheet: recompute landed cost at current prices, re-rank your sourcing mix under the new policy, and recalculate sailing windows against freight moves. If a news item changes none of these three, its value to your procurement is limited.
