By Rudy Ruitenberg
Grain exports from the French port of Rouen, Europe’s biggest cereal-shipping hub, more than doubled in the week through yesterday, boosted by wheat purchases by Algeria andMorocco.
Outbound grain shipments were 100,570 metric tons from Jan. 12 to Jan. 18, compared with 46,440 tons in the prior week, the Seine River port said in an e-mailed report today. Export cargoes included 88,550 tons of soft wheat, 8,920 tons of durum wheat and 3,100 tons of barley.
Rouen accounted for 45 percent of France’s maritime grain exports in 2009-10, ahead of La Pallice on the Bay of Biscay, which shipped out 19 percent, according to figures from national crops office FranceAgriMer.
Rouen grain loadings by destination, in tons:
Jan. 12-18 Soft wheat Morocco 28,700 Cuba 25,750 Algeria 25,000 Spain 7,400 Denmark 1,700 Durum wheat Morocco 7,150 U.K. 1,770 Barley Russia 3,100
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