Bunge has exported more than 940,000 tonnes across six South Australian port terminals, according to its January 2026 receivals report.
Bunge senior manager supply chain Derek Robjohns said it’s important to ensure a strong early shipping programme.
“Our focus us on moving grain to market in the first half of the season before the northern hemisphere harvest begins to meet demand and assisting in creating value for farmers,” Robjohns said.
“Our ability to maximise our supply chain to export large tonnages during this peak period has seen us break our January shipping record after also achieving our third biggest December of shipping across our SA ports. Our Outer Harbour and Port Giles terminals also individually reached their biggest ever January of exports.”
The report also sees a record volume of lentils shipped since October 2025, and exports so far this season include 600000 tonnes from its Adelaide ports, 530,000 tonnes from its Yorke Peninsula ports, and 790000 tonnes from its Eyre Peninsula ports.
“All six of our ports have been busy, and we have now loaded more than 45 vessels on behalf of seven different exporters,” Robjohns said.
“This has delivered South Australian and western Victorian farmers’ wheat, barley, canola, and pulses to end users in 23 countries across Africa, South America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Pacific.”
Robjohns said the achievement is the result of the “hard work” of all Bunge employees and logistics partners.
“Our employees continue to do a fantastic job helping us safely and efficiently connect local farmers to end users, and also a credit to our logistics partners who play a key role in moving grain vie truck and train to port to help us meet demand,” he said.
“With a further four million tonnes of shipping currently booked for this season, as well as strong domestic demand, we are looking forward to continuing to work together to deliver our farmer customers’ high-quality grain around the world.”
Farmers delivered 22,000 tonnes during January, taking total receivals for the season to over 5.5 million tonnes. For farmers with grain remaining on farm, Bunge is offering post-harvest delivery options at select sites, with its post-harvest procedure in place from Monday 9 February.