Japan Aug aluminium stocks up 18.5 pct m/m

　　Aluminium stocks held at three major Japanese ports came to 241,200 tonnes at the end of August, up 37,700 tonnes or 18.5 percent from a month earlier, trading house Marubeni Corp said on Monday.

　　Marubeni collects data from the key ports of Yokohama, Nagoya and Osaka.

　　Following are details of Japanese aluminium stocks,including month-on-month and year-on-year comparisons (in tonnes):