while archerdanielsmidland co continued to dominate us biodiesel imports at the start of 2023 it continued to also rely heavily on german biofuel production to do so according to companylevel import data gathered by the energy information administration adm a usbased agricultural processing giant delivered 24948 million gal of biodiesel imports to the us during january about 724 or 1806 million gal of imports originated out of germany an opis review of the most recent companyreported data issued by eia revealed the balance of adm imports about 6888 million gal arrived from canada the companys import total while easing 1 from the month before almost doubled its yearago deliveries and still constituted about 639 of all us biodiesel imports in january us biodiesel imports in january totaled 3906 million gal according to eias company figures and that increased 93 versus the december total and more than doubled up on the yearago import total the january delivery breakdown for adm biodiesel imports had the german shipments taking a pair of deliveries into new jersey with nearly 69 million gal into newark and another 6678 million gal into perth amboy german material also provided a 2982milliongal load that landed in houston and 1512 million gal into cape canaveral fla adms canadian deliveries shipped 3528 million gal of biodiesel to international falls minn and 2898 million gal to blaine wash along with a delivery that dropped 462000 gal into eastport idaho a number of other biodiesel importers significantly boosted the shipments in january greenamerica biofuels ord llc imported 7434 million gal of the biofuel during the month up 525 from the month before and more than five times the biodiesel it delivered to us storage a year ago the importer also tapped several overseas providers for their january biodiesel shipments including 2898 million gal from italy with 2688 million gal of it going to savannah ga and 210000 gal to jacksonville fla greenamerica took a couple deliveries of biodiesel from spain that totaled 3276 million gal that included a 2394 million gal spanish biodiesel shipment to jacksonville fla and an 882000 gal load into houston the 126 million gal greenamerica received from south korea during the month shipped into los angeles shell plcs shell us trading arm also upped its biodiesel imports during january it imported 3402 million gal from canada representing about twice as much as what shell imported last month of that total the company sent 2814 million gal into buffaloniagara falls ny shell also sent 378000 gal into champlainrouses point ny and 210000 gal into blaine wash while traders at vitol cut their biodiesel shipments 211 from december they still delivered 2982 million gal of biodiesel from spain to houston and that was more than twice the yearago imports ascribed to vitol eias biodiesel import roster for the month was rounded out by smaller deliveries of canadian material delivered by targray markets inc that totaled 294000 gal portal nd storage received 252000 gal of biodiesel through targray over january while sweetgrass mont landed a 42000 gal shipment eias initial monthly data for 2023 showed biodiesel importers finding a broader spectrum of sources for importing the fuel adms german deliveries made that nation the top source for us biodiesel imports in january at more than 18 million gal the traditional leader canada fell behind at a little more than 1058 million gal spain was the source for 6258 million gal of imported biodiesel with italy following just short of 29 million gal south korean biodiesel accounted for 126 million gal in january renewable diesel imports cooled for the second month in a row according to eia data the 26586 million gal in total renewable diesel deliveries from neste oyj in january all originated out of singapore and represented a 55 or 1554 million gal monthtomonth decline it also left neste imports just a hair  016  behind the same month in 2022 nestes largest january shipment of renewable diesel had a 1491milliongal load moving into las angeles the finnish producer also sent 10542 million gal to san francisco in january and 1134 million gal to portland ore eia did not show any company importing ethanol over january the second straight month that the agencys data failed to note any overseas fuel ethanol shipments landing in us ports at the same time last year eia noted about 108 million gal of imported ethanol entering the us this content was created by oil price information service which is operated by dow jones  co opis is run independently from dow jones newswires and the wall street journal