LNG Exports from Gladstone Second Highest on Record in June

The Port of Gladstone in Queensland, Australia, saw its second largest monthly total for LNG exports in June with an all-time record set for China-bound shipments, data from the Gladstone Ports Corporation showed July 6.

A total of 1.71mn metric tons of LNG was exported from the port in June, which is up 14% year on year and 1% month on month, and is Gladstone’s strongest month for LNG exports apart from the record set in December of 1.75mn mt, according to the data.

The port, which is where all the country’s east coast LNG shipments are exported from – via the Australia Pacific LNG, Gladstone LNG and Queensland Curtis LNG terminals which operate two trains each – saw its first cargo depart in January, 2015, from QCLNG and the sixth train come online last October.

China was sent 1.03mn mt of the 1.71mn mt total in June, which is up 12% year on year and 11% month on month, the fourth consecutive month of growth in Gladstone-China shipments, and the most ever sent to China from the port in a single month, the data showed.

Meanwhile, for the first time in 18-months, no LNG was sent to Singapore from Gladstone in June, which compares to 64,179 mt in June last year, and 126,247 mt in May, the data said.

Exports from Gladstone to South Korea were relatively strong at 361,685 mt, up 220% year on year and 51% month on month. The record for South Korea-bound shipments from Gladstone was set in January with 545,881 mt.

Shipments to Japan, India and Malaysia accounted for the remainder of Gladstone’s June exports, with 197,300 mt, 54,249 mt and 63,041 mt, respectively. 

Nathan Richardson