The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority 2025 Statistics Overview, a March 2026 posting, confirms sulphur through the Port of Vancouver at 3,507,428 metric tonnes in 2025, up 5 percent year on year. The public PDF is at https://www.portvancouver.com/sites/default/files/2026-03/2025%20Statistics%20overview%20%28En%29.pdf. That print is the last full-year West Coast sulfur anchor on the North American desk.
Top 2025 destinations in the same table were China at 1.30 million tonnes, down 16 percent; Australia at 597,000 tonnes, down 2 percent; Indonesia at 371,000 tonnes, down 13 percent; and the United States at 302,000 tonnes, up 191 percent. The destination mix is the story, not only the headline tonne count. China remains the largest listed trading economy and a smaller share of a larger stem.
The 2025 total extends a multi-year climb in the VFPA series the desk carries as verified_public: 2.29 million tonnes in 2021, 2.79 million tonnes in 2022, 3.10 million tonnes in 2023, 3.35 million tonnes in 2024, and 3.51 million tonnes in 2025. Fertilizer-category cargo at the port, sulfur plus potash and other fertilizers, rose 21 percent to 14.0 million tonnes in the same overview.
Alberta recovered sulfur still leaves mainly through this stem. Forming plants in the Edmonton and Fort McMurray belts rail formed product to Vancouver and Port Moody. The US destination jump of 191 percent to 302,000 tonnes is a Pacific solid movement into the United States, distinct from molten rail south of the 49th parallel. Both books matter when Hormuz seaborne is impaired.
SMM's H1 2026 review later put national Canadian sulfur exports at 4.25 million tonnes in 2025, up 40.7 percent, with Alberta and British Columbia more than 95 percent of the account. The VFPA 3.51 million tonne print is the port slice of that national figure. Other Canadian origins and forms sit outside the Vancouver foreign-outbound sulphur line.
China's 16 percent drop to 1.30 million tonnes sits beside a later SMM customs note that China's own first-half 2026 sulfur imports fell 57.7 percent to about 2.26 million tonnes. Vancouver did not lose China as a customer. It lost share of a customer that was itself importing less seaborne sulfur while phosphate runs were cut.
Indonesia at 371,000 tonnes, down 13 percent, remains a HPAL and acid destination. Australia at 597,000 tonnes is the steady fertilizer and metals pull. The United States at 302,000 tonnes is the destination that changed order of magnitude. Gulf-versus-Pacific basis after Hormuz is one reading of that US line.
Argus open news on 13 July put Tampa Q3 molten at $705 per long ton delivered (https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-insights/latest-market-news/2851577-tampa-3q-liquid-sulphur-price-hits-record-705-lt). That Florida contract and this Vancouver tonne table are the two North American public prints the desk can cite without redistributing a licensed weekly grid. One is a price. The other is a volume.
The 22 August confirmation is not a new cargo. It is the port authority's own PDF catching up to a figure trade media had already used as 3.5 million tonnes. For Alberta inventory, the relevant read is that the stem absorbed more than 3.5 million tonnes of formed sulfur in 2025 while AER-linked provincial stock was drawing toward the 11.66 million tonne July 2025 print Argus reported as the lowest since May 2019.
Destination tables, not AIS screenshots, set whether Alberta blocks become cargo. The 2025 mix says China still takes the most listed tonnes, Australia and Indonesia remain core, and the United States became a much larger Pacific sulfur destination in the same year Hormuz closed the other half of seaborne trade.