"1,932,000 tons of different commodities were traded in Domestic and Export Trading Floors including 1,025,000 tons of various commodities worth more than $492 million in oil and petrochemical trading floor, 766,000 tons of different products worth about $421 million in metals and minerals trading floor, and about 138,000 tons of agricultural products worth $68 million in agricultural trading floor in spot market”, IME International Affairs and PR reported.
Moreover, during this month, export trading floor witnessed trading of 48,000 tons of sulfur worth about $6 million, 202,000 tons of bitumen worth more than $76 million, 3,500 tons of insulation worth more than $1 million, as well as 205,000 tons of iron ore worth approximately $6 million.
In addition, IME experienced trading of 2,880 MT of steel scrap in it secondary market during the same month.
It is worth noting, derivatives market played host to the trading of $ 57,704 cumin seed futures contracts worth more than $220 million gold coin futures contracts and $103,956 soybean meal futures contracts.