FBA: Shipments Jump (CONT’D FROM PAGE 1 )
Box Shipments ( U.S. Corrugated Product Shipments) Industry Shipments In Billions of Square Feet Month November 2020
noted Dick Storat in his Scoring Boxes newsletter. Containerboard operating rates, however, fell from 98.0 percent in October to 93.3 percent in November, ac- cording to the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&- PA). The rate was essentially flat (-0.4 pts.) from the rate in November 2019 and is up 2.5 points year-to-date. “The large drop in operating rates was a bit of a neg- ative surprise,” said Mark Wilde, Ph.D. and Senior Analyst at BMO Capital Markets Limited. “We suspect some of it owes to delayed maintenance from earlier in the year.” FBA To Change Publication Frequency Beginning in 2021, FBA will change the publication frequency of the Monthly Statistical Bulletin and publish summary data for U.S. corrugated industry shipments (ac- tual and average week) and containerboard (consumption and inventory) data on a quarterly rather than monthly ba- sis. This change aligns with a similar change in the AF&- PA publication of containerboard monthly reports and will take place beginning with the first quarter of 2021. The first report will include monthly data for January, February and March and will be published in mid-April 2021. There will be three additional reports published for the second, third and fourth quarters of 2021. There will no longer be monthly reporting. FBA will review the continuation of this change at the end of 2021.
Year
Actual
Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change
2020 2019
33.612 32.060
4.8
8.845 8.437
4.8
Industry Total
Year-to Date
November 2020
Year
Actual
Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change
2020 2019
371.553 362.151
2.6
8.008 7.839
2.2
Industry Total
Containerboard Consumption (Thousands of Tons)
Year
Month
Percent Change Year-to-Date Percent Change
2020 2019
2.6756 2.5847
3.5
30.3291 29.7345
2.0
Container Board Inventory - Corrugator Plants (Thousands of Tons)
Corrugator Plants Only
Date
Percent Change Weeks of Supply
Percent Change
Nov. Oct.
1.7912 1.8156
-1.3
2.5 2.6
-3.8
Shipping Days
Year
Month
Year-to-Date
2020 2019
19 19
232 231
SOURCE: Fibre Box Association
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