Monthly cattle shipments to Indonesia reached a 3.5 year high in December as exporters cleared northern floodplains to deliver 58,250 feeder-weight cattle to Indonesian feedlots to feed for the month-long Ramadan religious festivities which commence in early March.
The majority of those numbers – 54,973 – were exported from Darwin with 3267 head shipped from Fremantle.
The end of year rush represented the busiest month for export activity from Darwin since July 2019 when 60,918 head were loaded at the port, and the biggest overall month for cattle exports to Indonesia since June…
