Prices

What moves the price of Ukrainian cooking oil

The market price of sunflower oil is set well before it reaches a supplier’s quote. Four things account for most of the movement:

• crop yield — Ukraine’s black-soil belt produces sunflower seed with some of the highest oil content anywhere, but yield varies with weather, and a short harvest lifts the price of every downstream format
• logistics and the export corridor — freight rates and corridor capacity feed straight into the landed cost, and they have been the most volatile component in recent seasons
• currency — oil is traded internationally in dollars while a share of production cost is local, so exchange-rate movement changes the export price without anything changing at the plant
• destination and Incoterms — FOB Kyiv and CIF to a Gulf or West African port are different numbers for the same oil; so is a quote to Rotterdam and one to Mumbai

Sunflower oil price per tonne is the benchmark most buyers watch, but the number they actually pay is the benchmark plus refining grade, plus packaging, plus route.

Crude and refined are two different prices

Crude sunflower oil is the unrefined product traded in bulk between processors — it still carries impurities and is priced as a commodity. Refined oil has been through neutralisation, bleaching and deodorisation, is bottled to a specification, and carries the cost of that processing plus the packaging.

The gap between the two is not fixed. It widens when energy and packaging costs rise and narrows when crude tightens. This matters when you compare offers: a crude sunflower oil price quoted per tonne and a refined sunflower oil price quoted per litre in 5 L PET are not comparable figures, and the difference is not the supplier’s margin. When you request a quote, specify which one you need — we supply both.

What we quote on

Pricing is available across the full factory range, in retail and bulk formats:

• refined sunflower oil — 1 L to 18 L, jerry cans, IBC tanks and flexitank up to 24 tonnes per container
• corn oil — 1 L to 18 L, plastic bottles and tin
• soybean (soya) oil — 1 L retail through to 1,000 L IBC containers
• canola rapeseed oil — crude CRSO and refined, 2 L to 16 L
• deep frying oil — grades F1 to F10, rated by frying hours, in 5 L and 10 L PET
• oilseed meals — soybean, sunflower, safflower and linseed, in bulk

Private label is available across every format, and the packaging cost is quoted as a separate line so you can see what the branding actually adds.

What changes the number on your quote

Five inputs decide the final figure, and giving us all five in the first message saves a round of questions:

• volume — a single 20-foot container and a monthly programme are priced differently
• product and grade — crude or refined, and which oil
• packaging format — bottle size, cap, carton, and whether it carries your label
• Incoterms — FOB Kyiv is our default basis; CIF and other terms are quoted on request
• destination — port or inland delivery point

Lead time for standard container orders is normally 14 to 21 days from confirmation. Export documentation — certificate of origin, phytosanitary certificate and quality analysis report — is prepared for every shipment.

How to get a current price

Send the five inputs above and you get an itemised quote, not a range. We work directly with buyers, with no intermediary between the factory and the invoice, and we respond to qualified trade enquiries within one business day.