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By Rudy Ruitenberg
mars 15, 2012 9:09 AM EDT
Facebook Twitter Queue Grain exports from France’s Rouen port,
Europe’s biggest cereal-shipping hub, rose 4.4 percent in the week through yesterday to the highest level in 11 months, boosted by wheat shipments to
Africa and the Netherlands.
Outbound grain shipments were 231,849 metric tons between March 8 and March 14 from 222,038 tons a week earlier, the Seine River port said in an e-mailed report today. Exports included 192,699 tons of soft wheat and 27,000 tons of the durum variety.
Morocco was the biggest export destination, taking 33,000 tons of soft wheat and 27,000 tons of durum, used to make couscous and pasta, the shipping data showed. Algeria was the second-biggest client with 45,642 tons of soft wheat.
The Netherlands took 32,225 tons of soft wheat from
France, the most shipped to the country from Rouen since at least August 2010, according to port data.
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 metric tons:
March 8-14
Soft wheat
Algeria 45,642
Morocco 33,000
Netherlands 32,225
Ivory Coast 31,200
Cuba 26,152
Cameroon 21,000
U.K. 1,780
Ireland 1,700
Durum wheat
Morocco 27,000
Barley
Cyprus 10,500
Poland 1,650
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