Disclaimer: Monthly average prices from public sources, on different delivery terms and grades; differences between places are not pure freight. For education and research only. Use at your own risk. Not financial advice.
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Vegetable Oil Price Map
The same oil has a different price depending on where and how it changes hands: free on board (FOB) at the export port, or delivered with freight (CFR, also called CNF) and insurance (CIF) at the buyer's port. This map puts each public monthly price where it is quoted. Pick an oil and a month, then click a port.
Price history
US$ per tonne, monthly average. Each line is one quote, on its own delivery terms.
All prices this month
US$ per tonne. Change against the previous month and a year earlier.
| Where | Oil and grade | Terms | Price | Month | Year | Source |
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The delivery terms
FOB, free on board
Price at the exporter's port, loaded on the ship. The buyer pays freight and insurance from there.
CFR or CNF, cost and freight
Price delivered to the buyer's port, freight included, insurance not. CNF is the older name for CFR.
CIF, cost, insurance and freight
Like CFR, plus marine insurance. For a buyer, CIF minus the origin FOB price is roughly freight and insurance, if grade and timing match.
Sources and method
World Bank Commodity Price Data (Pink Sheet), monthly, CC BY 4.0, via the Palm Oil Monitor. The bank changes some series' terms over time; this map shows each only from when its current terms began: palm oil (RBD, Malaysian average export price, FOB) from January 2026; soybean oil (US crude degummed, FOB US Gulf) and coconut oil (CFR Europe) from January 2025; sunflower oil (EU, FOB Rotterdam) and palm kernel oil (CIF Rotterdam) from November 2024; rapeseed oil (Dutch, FOB Rotterdam).
India, CIF Indian port: the Solvent Extractors' Association of India's monthly average prices for RBD palmolein, crude palm oil, crude soybean oil and crude sunflower oil, from circulars EC-170 and EC-162; updated by hand each month.
The dashed lines compare India's CIF price with an origin or benchmark FOB price for the same oil. That gap includes freight and insurance but also grade, origin and timing differences, so read it as a rough guide, not a freight rate. Map: Natural Earth via world-atlas. Not financial advice.