ChemPortal published its sulphur dashboard on 15 October 2026 with a freight section separate from the spot FOB and CFR assessment grid.
The table listed Vancouver loading to China on 50-60 thousand tonne parcels at 38-43 dollars per tonne in the low and high columns, a logistics marker for sizing stem economics.
ChemPortal labels the spot price grid as Argus and PetroGeneral sourced; Sulfur Wire does not paste those licensed weekly FOB assessment bands onto public pages.
Freight near forty dollars per tonne on fifty-plus thousand tonne stems is the Pacific charge desks subtract from CFR ideas when Chinese domestic spot trades near 6,650 yuan on Shengyishe.
Alberta recovered sulfur still moves by heated rail to Lower Mainland terminals before bulk vessel loading, so Vancouver freight into China is the first seaborne leg for many Pacific contracts.
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's verified_public series shows sulfur exports rising to 3.51 million tonnes in 2025, up 5 percent year on year, evidence the stem cleared strongly even when freight and FOB move on different clocks.
AER August 2026 closing inventory near 11.04 million tonnes implies block stocks remain available for remelt and export when netbacks clear logistics.
Chinese coastal inventories above 1.12 million tonnes on the Oct 15 Shengyishe wire can weaken import appetite even when freight stays stable in the high-thirties dollar band.
Middle East parcel freight rows on the same ChemPortal page remained in the 145-167 dollars per tonne range for typical stem sizes to India and Brazil, a reminder that Pacific freight is not the only moving part in seaborne sulfur.
Tampa molten at 705 dollars per long ton and Gulf granular near 1,125 dollars per tonne on the public dashboard anchor phosphate affordability on the Atlantic side.
StatCan and Port of Vancouver cargo statistics were not refreshed in this pass because the port statistics path returned HTTP 403 and customs tables showed no new HS 2503 signal.
Desk read: use the 38-43 dollar per tonne Vancouver-China freight row for logistics math; source licensed FOB assessments through your data vendor rather than this public page.