Jordan, Egypt Buy Wheat

By The Moscow Times

July 7, 2011

Jordan bought 150,000 tons of wheat, including 50,000 tons from Russia, the Industry and Trade Ministry said Thursday.

The kingdom bought 50,000 tons of Russian wheat at $289.90 a ton, said Mohamad Malahmeh, head of the ministry's tenders department. The remaining quantity was bought at between $289.90 a ton and $290.90 a ton from other sources.

Egypt's main state wheat buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities, bought 180,000 tons of Russian wheat in a tender Thursday, GASC vice chairman Nomani Nomani told reporters in Cairo the same day. It was the country's first wheat purchase since Russia banned cereal sales in August.

(Bloomberg)

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