Shipment
The Red Sea Ports Authority revealed that the Safaga Port in the Red Sea received a shipment of wheat on board the ship AAI EVOLUTION.
Two planes carrying aid shipments for the people of Gaza, provided by the World Food Program, landed at Al-Arish Airport in North Sinai on Sunday.
Vessel “Ash Baltic” which is en route to Egypt’s Dekhela Port is one of three vessels that were authorized on Monday with a total of 70,000 tons of grains, the JCC added.
Egypt received a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines from Spain comprising 1,273,600 doses, said local reports on Thursday.
The Lebanese Presidency announced Saturday seizing a huge shipment of hashish in the Port of Sidon Jieh before it was set to be smuggled into Egypt.
Brent crude futures had risen 42 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $74.35 a barrel by 0648 GMT, after gaining 0.7 percent on Wednesday.
Egypt’s General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) announced it has purchased 420,000 tons of wheat from Russia and Romania on Tuesday.
Egypt received its first 2 million-barrel crude oil shipment coming from Iraq on Feb. 15.
This pushed up the total quantities received from Iraq to 12 million barrels.
The decision on whether Egypt will accept or not a wheat shipment coming from Romania after poppy grains were detected in it is yet to be made by Attorney General Nabil Sadeq.
The Agriculture Quarantine and Inspection Authority at Safaga port prevented unloading a 63 thousand ton shipment of wheat coming from Romania.
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