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Weiqiao's Guinea Partnership – how will it impact the seaborne bauxite market

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Exports of bauxite to feed China's growing alumina refinery sector is seen as an attractive investment opportunity due to Indonesia's ongoing ban on raw ore exports and wide expectations that Malaysian production will fall in the future.  A number of recent developments in the seaborne bauxite market will significantly impact the dynamics of future trade. This insight, titled "Weiqiao's Guinea Partnership – how will it impact the seaborne bauxite market?", examines the impact after the first quasi-tied volumes of Guinean bauxite landed in Shandong in November.

Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • Guinean projects spurred on by perceived shortage of long term Asia-Pacific supply
  • The new Winning Alliance Ports bauxite project beats the odds
  • What is the impact of WAP's project on the global bauxite market?

Tables and charts

This report includes 4 images and tables including:

  • Figure 1 Total seaborne bauxite supply demand balance by basin
  • Figure 2 Guinea’s bauxite mines and projects
  • Figure 3 C1 cashflow distributions of WAP Project vs key suppliers into China’s third party bauxite (low temperature refinery) market
  • Figure 4 Evolution of Weiqiao’s bauxite sourcing

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