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Article: The global market for ammonia. (Ammonia Trade).
- Article from:
- Nitrogen & Methanol
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Relatively small volumes of ammonia are traded compared to the amount produced, and high transport and storage costs make for a series of regional markets rather than a unified global market such as exists for urea. Nitrogen & Methanol presents an update on developments in ammonia trade over the past few years.
One of the things most notable about the global ammonia trade is that it generally bears little relation to the urea trade, in spite of the close connection between them chemically. Although Trinidad & Tobago is the largest exporter of ammonia in the world, for example, it exports very little urea. Ammonia trade represents around 10% of all ammonia ...