Indonesia January palm oil, palm kernel oil exports up 4.6 pct m/m

The shipment rose 4.6 percent compared to December and 0.7 percent from the same month a year earlier.

Demand from China and European Union countries were lower on monthly basis in January, but demand from the United States and Bangladesh helped increase the total exports.

Indonesia had a palm oil stock of 3.62 million tonnes by the end of January, GAPKI said.