Thursday, April 12, 2007

Japan March aluminium stocks fall 18 pct m/m

(Reuters) - Estimated aluminium stocks at the Japanese ports of Yokohama, Nagoya and Osaka fell 18 percent month-on-month to 201,500 tonnes as of the end of March, trading firm Marubeni Corp. said on Friday.

The decline in stocks to the lowest level since November 2002 was due partly to a delay in the arrival of shipments into April --- 18,000 tonnes from Brazil and 11,000 tonnes from South Africa, a company official said.


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