Grows 20% juice shipment between January and April

With the sharp increase last month, Brazilian exports of orange juice closed the fourth quarter of this year with an increase of 20% as compared to the same range of 2012, according to Secex compiled by the National Association of exporters of Citrus juices (CitrusBR).
According to the entity, shipments reached 98,082 tonnes in April, 173% more than in the same month last year, and totaled 428,229 tons in the first four months of the year. The calculations take into account the sales of frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ, the acronym in English) and integral juice ready to drink (NFC), unconcentrated. To facilitate comparisons, the NFC volume is converted to the equivalent in FCOJ.
According to CitrusBR, which gathers companies Cutrale, Citrosuco/Citrovita and Louis Dreyfus Commodities, heels, especially the April, does not mean that international demand times retracted. "This kind of increase in a single month may be the result of coincidence of loads of juice in a short period of time and does not necessarily mean that there was an increase in overall exports. You will need to follow the result in the next two months to see how much of that increase will be preserved, "said the organisation.
Main market for Brazilian exports of orange juice, the European Union absorbed 267,384 tons during the period, 10.5% between January and April 2012.