Bloomberg
By Rudy Ruitenberg
Grain exports from the French port of Rouen, Europe’s biggest cereal-shipping hub, jumped 47 percent in the latest week as wheat deliveries toMorocco rose.
Export shipments advanced to 189,434 metric tons between March 29 and April 4 from 128,865 tons a week earlier, the Seine River port wrote in an e-mailed report today. Exports included 181,650 tons of soft wheat, the most in four weeks.
Morocco was the biggest destination, taking 85,250 tons of soft wheat compared with 27,500 tons the previous week, the data showed. Wheat deliveries from Rouen toAlgeria fell to 59,470 tons from 76,550 tons.
Rouen accounted for 41 percent of France’s grain exports by sea in 2010-11, ahead of La Pallice on the Bay of Biscay and Dunkirk on the English Channel, which shipped out 17 percent and 11 percent respectively, according to port data.
Rouen grain loadings by destination, in metric tons:
March 29-April 4 Soft wheat Morocco 85,250 Algeria 59,470 Cuba 23,651 Gabon 7,000 Cameroon 4,500 U.K. 1,779 Barley Netherlands 2,612 Belgium 2,169 Corn U.K. 3,003
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