Wheat shipment en route from Ukraine to Egypt: GASC

 

CAIRO- 27 February 2022: Despite the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian military escalation, the Egyptian ship "Wadi Al-Arab" carrying 60 tons of Ukrainian wheat has left the Yuzhne port of Ukraine and en route to Egypt, said the Egyptian General Authority For Supply Commodities (GASC) on Saturday.

 

Egypt, the largest wheat importer of the world, had contracted on this shipment with Ukrainian company Enerco on December 29, 2021 throughout an international tender at a price of $361.25 per ton.

 

The shipment is part of a total of  300,000 tons of wheat scheduled to arrive from February 15 to March 3, 2022, the GASC.

 

In a meeting with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Sunday, Minister of Supply Aly Moselhy sit that the state’s strategic wheat stock lasts for 4 months and local production season will start in April, with a target of 4 million tons.

 

On Feb. 26, 2022, the GASC announced - on behalf of the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade - a new international tender to import wheat, adding that the shipments are scheduled on April 13-26.