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Please find below a comparison table for the four principal ports in East Coast South America (ECSA) - Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santos and Rio de Janeiro between April 2008 and October 2009.

The table includes monthly 380-centistoke (cst) averages for each port together with monthly percentage increases. The highest monthly average price for all four ports was recorded in July 2008 when crude oil reached a peak of $147.27 per barrel on July 11th.

The greatest monthly change was seen in November 2008 when average prices plummeted by 40.5 percent, 41.6 percent, 39.0 percent and 41.1 percent in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santos and Rio de Janeiro respectively.

The graphs accompanying this article offer a visual representation of prices in ECSA ports during the April 2008 - October 2009 period. The addition of the WTI crude price in the second graph aims to show how bunker prices would be expected to respond to a surge in crude prices similar to the one seen between April and July 2008.

Month	Baires	+/- (%)	Montev.	+/- (%)	Santos	+/- (%)	Rio	+/- (%)
Oct 09	433	-4.6	457	-5.4	441	2.8	449	1.8
Sep 09	454	-5.8	483	0.4	429	-6.1	441	-3.1
Aug 09	482	10.3	481	8.6	457	15.1	455	11.0
Jul 09	437	1.2	443	-2.6	397	-0.8	410	0.2
Jun 09	432	21.3	455	28.2	400	17.0	409	13.0
May 09	356	16.7	355	10.9	342	16.3	362	21.5
Apr 09	305	10.5	320	8.1	294	14.8	298	15.5
Mar 09	276	2.2	296	4.6	256	2.8	258	-8.5
Feb 09	270	8.9	283	5.2	249	6.4	282	7.6
Jan 09	248	0.8	269	-3.2	234	5.9	262	17.0
Dec 08	246	-21.9	278	-19.0	221	-25.6	224	-21.1
Nov 08	315	-40.5	343	-41.6	297	-39.0	284	-41.1
Oct 08	529	-16.3	587	-12.9	487	-21.8	482	-22.5
Sep 08	632	-12.2	674	-10.5	623	-9.2	622	-9.5
Aug 08	720	-4.1	753	-4.2	686	-7.9	687	-7.7
Jul 08	751	10.9	786	11.0	745	13.2	744	13.6
Jun 08	677	18.8	708	16.8	658	15.0	655	17.2
May 08	570	8.8	606	7.4	572	11.1	559	10.0
Apr 08	524		564		515		508