ETHANOL EXPORTS INCREASED 114.4% IN FEBRUARY TO 131.4 MILLION LITERS

Brazil exported 131.4 million liters of ethanol in February, up 26.7% compared to 103.7 million liters shipped in January and 114.4% over February 2018, when 61.3 million liters were shipped of liters. The data was disclosed by the Foreign Trade Secretariat (Secex), Ministry of Economy. Foreign exchange revenues from the sale of biofuel reached US $ 74.4 million in February, up 39.6% from January’s US $ 53.3 million. In relation to the US $ 44.5 million in February 2018, there was a 67.2% increase in revenues. In the accumulated volume of 2019, the volume exported reached 235.1 million liters, up 28.8% from 182.5 million liters in the first two months of 2018, with revenues of US $ 127.7 million, a high of 11, 4% on revenues of US $ 114.6 million for the same period of 2018.

Source: Revista Globo Rural