By Rudy Ruitenberg
Grain cargoes exported from the French port of Rouen, Europe’s biggest cereal-shipping hub, more than doubled in the seven days through yesterday as Morocco took the most wheat since March.
Outbound grain shipments were 219,989 metric tons, up from 85,817 tons a week earlier, the Seine River port said in an e- mailed report today. All cargoes consisted of wheat.
Algeria, the biggest importer of French grain, was the main destination for shipments from Rouen with 97,602 tons of wheat, followed by Morocco with 86,562 tons of the grain, the biggest quantity since the last week of March.
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 data from national crops office FranceAgriMer.
Rouen grain loadings by destination, in tons:
Nov. 3-9 Wheat Algeria 97,602 Morocco 86,562 Cameroon 21,225 Ivory Coast 8,950 Gabon 5,650
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