MarketFrame | Fertilizer import data and cost analysis

Are you using fertilizer trade data to support your buying and selling decisions?

Build your own market framework from fertilizer trade data to guide your decisions.

Bring import volumes, historical comparisons and estimated costs together for the fertilizer you trade.

See opportunities and risks in your fertilizer trades more clearly.

Use import volumes and cost movements alongside your market knowledge to assess the price and timing of a trade.

Make more profit from the fertilizer you trade.

Weigh potential profit and risk before deciding whether to buy, sell, wait or pass on a trade.

Analyse fertilizer imports and estimated costs to support your trading decisions.

Tools for your market framework

Filter your market

Select the fertilizer product, country of origin and entry point you want to examine. Focus your analysis on the imports relevant to your business.

Build your own baseline

Choose the historical years and calculation method for your baseline. Compare reported import volumes with that reference, month by month or cumulatively.

Build your cost benchmark

Use trade data and your freight and port-cost assumptions to estimate fertilizer costs from origin to destination. See how the benchmark changes over time.

Estimate delivered costs

Select a South African delivery location and use an estimated road rate or your own. This gives you a cost benchmark tailored to the area where you trade.

Analyse import
volumes against
your baseline.

See whether current import volumes are above or below your chosen historical baseline. Use that difference alongside your market knowledge to assess the price and timing of a trade.

Assess trading prices
against your cost
benchmark.

See where buying prices, selling prices or quotes sit relative to your estimated cost benchmark. Use that comparison alongside your market knowledge to assess the price and potential margin of a trade.