Grain exports from the French port of Rouen, Europe’s biggest cereal-shipping hub, jumped 51 percent in the week ended yesterday as Morocco took the most wheat in more than a year.
Outbound grain amounted to 175,735 metric tons from Dec. 1 to Dec. 7 compared with 116,172 tons a week earlier, the Seine River port said today in an e-mailed report. Cargoes included 166,235 tons of wheat and 9,500 tons of malting barley.
Morocco was the leading destination with 151,805 tons of wheat, the most shipped to the country in a week since at least August 2010. Algeria, the biggest importer of French grain, didn’t take any cargoes in the most recent period.
Rouen accounted for 45 percent ofFrance’s maritime grain exports in 2009-10, ahead of La Pallice on the Bay of Biscay, which shipped out 19 percent, according to data from national crops office FranceAgriMer.
Rouen grain loadings by destination, in tons:
Dec. 1-7 Wheat Morocco 151,805 Gabon 8,000 Cameroon 4,700 U.K. 1,730 Barley Latvia 6,500 Russia 3,000
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