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LME CEO: Detroit Warehouse Queues Won't Vanish Overnight
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Queues to take aluminum out of warehouses in Detroit won't vanish overnight once a requirement kicks in for a unit of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) to increase deliveries, the chief executive of the London Metal Exchange said Thursday.
Martin Abbott said delays in taking metal out of Detroit facilities aren't being caused by the LME, warehousing firms or consumers in the first place.
"Anyone who thinks the new load-out rate will make queues go away is gravely mistaken," he said. "We as an exchange didn't create the queues. The warehousers didn't create the queues.
"What has created the queues is a surplus of material and a surplus of cheap- to-free money," he said. "Until that changes, we aren't going to see a reduction or a disappearance of queues at the warehouses."
From April, Goldman's Metro International Trade Services--which last year faced complaints over long delays accessing metal in Detroit by major aluminum users like U.S. can maker Coca-Cola Co. (KO) and U.S. aluminum sheet maker Novelis Inc.--will now have to deliver out 3,000 metric tons a day, double the previous rate.
Queues to secure aluminum stored at Metro's Detroit facilities reached eight months earlier in 2011. The queues haven't vanished: over a quarter of the aluminum held in the LME's warehousing system is stored in Detroit--1.3 million tons, out of a total 4.97 million tons. Warehouses owned by Metro store over 900,000 tons of this. It would take 600 days, or 120 working weeks, to deliver out 900,000 tons.
Martin Abbott said delays in taking metal out of Detroit facilities aren't being caused by the LME, warehousing firms or consumers in the first place.
"Anyone who thinks the new load-out rate will make queues go away is gravely mistaken," he said. "We as an exchange didn't create the queues. The warehousers didn't create the queues.
"What has created the queues is a surplus of material and a surplus of cheap- to-free money," he said. "Until that changes, we aren't going to see a reduction or a disappearance of queues at the warehouses."
From April, Goldman's Metro International Trade Services--which last year faced complaints over long delays accessing metal in Detroit by major aluminum users like U.S. can maker Coca-Cola Co. (KO) and U.S. aluminum sheet maker Novelis Inc.--will now have to deliver out 3,000 metric tons a day, double the previous rate.
Queues to secure aluminum stored at Metro's Detroit facilities reached eight months earlier in 2011. The queues haven't vanished: over a quarter of the aluminum held in the LME's warehousing system is stored in Detroit--1.3 million tons, out of a total 4.97 million tons. Warehouses owned by Metro store over 900,000 tons of this. It would take 600 days, or 120 working weeks, to deliver out 900,000 tons.
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