The U.K. has taken delivery of its largest-ever shipment of UAN, according to U.K. liquid fertilizer manufacturer Omex Agriculture Ltd.
Omex took delivery of the 50,000 dwt vessel on Sept. 28 at its dedicated processing, storage, and distribution terminal in the port of Immingham on England’s East Coast.
The cargo is earmarked for Omex’s customers from North Lincolnshire to the Scottish borders, and will supply enough raw material for one top dressing of over 330,000 acres of winter wheat, the fertilizer manufacturer said.
Omex said this latest shipment mirrors the company’s earlier largest shipments into the ports of Ipswich and Dundee of 13,000 mt and 10,000 mt of UAN, respectively.
“This shipment is one of a number scheduled to arrive across Omex’s nationwide network of 10 distribution hubs in the coming months, ensuring a regular supply of Nitroflo liquid N+S throughout the U.K. and Ireland, ” the company said.
However, Omex had not responded to Green Markets’ inquiries for comment on the origin of the UAN shipments by press time.
The U.K. imported 97,163 mt of UAN in the first seven months of this year (through July), according to Trade Data Monitor (TDM) statistics. About 62 percent of the imports came from the Netherlands, with Belarus, Poland, and Germany typically supplying the balance. The U.K. has not imported any U.S. UAN since 2018, according to TDM. But import statistics from Aug. 1, 2021 are not yet available.
UAN imports originating in the U.S., as well as imports of UAN from Russia and Trinidad and Tobago into E.U. Member Countries, have been subject to definitive antidumping duties since October 2019, and to provisional AD measures since April 2019 (GM Oct. 11, 2019; April 12, 2019). However, the U.K. is no longer an E.U. Member State, having left the E.U. on Jan. 31, 2020, CET.
CF Fertilisers does not produce any UAN at its two U.K. plants at Billingham and Ince.