Egypt imports 62.000 tonnes of wheat from Romania
September 19 2013
Egypt acquired 235.000 tones of grain from Romania, Russia and Ukraine to be delivered within November 11 and November 20, 2013 according to the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) quoted by Reuters. The 60,000 tonne of wheat imported from Romania were provided by Ameropa Grains S.A Constanta, the Romanian Subsidiary of Ameropa AG Holding Switzerland at a price of $254,88 per tonne, the shipping cost reaching around $13 per tonne, says the same source. The price is similar with the ones charged by Russian company Venus ($254,50 per tone) and by Louis Dreyfus ($251 per tonne), the group that provided the grain coming from Ukraine. The North-African country is the world's largest wheat importer, GASC having imported another 780,000 tonnes of wheat from Romania, Russia and Ukraine between July, 18 and August, 12.
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