Egypt’s state grains buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), set a tender on Thursday to buy an unspecified amount of wheat from global suppliers for shipment Aug. 1-10.
Tenders should reach GASC by noon (1000 GMT) on Tuesday, April 6, and must remain valid for 24 hours.
Wheat bids should be free on board, with a separate freight offer.
GASC said it will pay for the grain with “at sight” letters of credit.
For the current tender, GASC is seeking to buy 55,000- to 60,000-tonne cargoes of the following: U.S. North Pacific soft white wheat; U.S. hard red winter wheat; U.S. soft red winter wheat; Russian milling wheat; Ukrainian milling wheat, and Australian standard white wheat.
GASC is also seeking 60,000-tonne cargoes of the following: Canadian soft wheat; French milling wheat; German milling wheat; Argentine bread wheat; Polish milling wheat; Kazakh milling wheat;
Romanian milling wheat; Bulgarian milling wheat; Serbian milling wheat; Hungarian milling wheat, and Paraguayan milling wheat.
