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THE
COLOMBIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY,
one of the most efficient in the world |
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the present time Colombia produces around two million six hundred
thousand tons of sugar each year, of which nearly 50% of it
is exported. The Colombian sugar industry is located in the
geographic valley of the Cauca River in the southwestern part
of the country. In this valley as an exceptional condition,
only shared by Hawaii and the northern part of Peru, climatic
differences are present between day and night, which are necessary
for sucrose concentration in the sugar cane. This privileged
condition permits to harvest, mill cane and produce sugar all
year round unlike what happens in all the rest of the sugar
cane zones of the world, in which sugar cane harvesting only
lasts between four to six months of the year. As a consequence,
the fixed charges of investment in the mill, field equipment
and capital assets per ton of sugar cane produced are half and
even a third of those existing in the average of the sugar cane
zones of the world. Due to this and to the notable fertility
of the soil, Colombian sugar industry is one of the four most
efficient in the world, including the beet sugar production. |
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FORTY
YEARS TRADITION OF EXPORTING FULFILLMENT |
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Colombian sugar industry has maintained its presence in the
international sugar markets for over forty years, establishing
business with the main sugar houses of the world such as EDF
MAN., AMEROP SUGAR, LOUIS DREYFUS, SUCDEN, CARGILL, TRADIGRAIN,
COMMODITY SPECIALIST, NOBLE, TATE & LYLE, GLENCORE, SUCRIMEX who are
our main testimony of reliability, enhanced by permanent commercial
relations, without any contractual unfulfillment. |
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CIAMSA:
ACCESS
DOOR TO THE SUGAR FUTURES MARKETS FOR ITS CLIENTS |
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CIAMSA we use the New York and London
futures markets to price our sales and the purchases of our clients.
This is why we are able to sell at a fixed price or offer at option
of our clients the possibility to resort to the exchange to establish
their prices. |
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CIAMSA:
SERVICE
TEAM AND INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE CLIENT |
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| Relying
on 120 employees strongly motivated in offering the best service
to our clients in the financial, administrative, sugar reception
and dispatch, marketing and futures and areas. We own a branch
office in Peru, a sugar mill in Venezuela and an installed capacity
to hold 50.000 tons of sugar in bulk and 40.000 bags of sugar
at our Buenaventura's port installment. Our equipment at port
combined with the knowledge and dedication of our employees
permit us to dispatch bulk, loose cargo and containers in a
much more efficient manner than that required in the sugar contracts
of the New York and London exchanges |
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