03/01/2011 (Intellasia) - Malaysia's palm oil exports fell 19.7 per cent in December compared with the previous month, estimated Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS), an independent cargo surveyor.

A total of 1,260,713 metric tons of palm oil were tracked Dec. 1-31, SGS said in an e-mailed report.

Malaysia exported 1,569,314 tons of palm oil during the same period in November, according to the surveyor.