São Paulo – July ended with raw and processed poultry exports from Brazil reaching an all-time high at 463,100 tons, the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) said this Thursday (2). The number is up 20.6% from July 2017 and the strongest on record for a month for the industry.
Resumption of exports following a trucker strike and the normalization of foreign trade statistics from the Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services led to the record-breaking result. Revenue was up 15.7% year-on-year to USD 711.6 million.
A statement quoted ABPA president Francisco Turra as saying the “record-breaking export numbers are a direct consequence of seaport shipping going back to normal as roadblocks ended, and of normalization of data flows under the Ministry’s new system.”
Year-to-date through July saw 2.3 million tons of poultry products got shipped from Brazil, down 8.2% year-on-year, with revenue coming out to USD 3.675 billion, down 12.4% from a year ago.
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
