Egypt’s GASC searching for wheat in tender for Oct 15-25 cargo

Adds tender particulars and background on earlier tender

CAIRO, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Egypt’s Normal Authority for Provide Commodities (GASC) set a young on Friday to purchase an unspecified quantity of wheat from world suppliers for cargo from Oct. 15-25, for fee utilizing 180-day letters of credit score.

GASC Vice Chairman Ahmed Youssef mentioned the authority was searching for to purchase cargoes of soppy and/or milling wheat from the USA, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Poland, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Paraguay and Serbia.

Tenders ought to attain GASC by midday (1000 GMT) on Monday. The outcomes ought to come out after 3:30 p.m. (1330 GMT) on the identical day.

In its final tender on Aug. 18, GASC purchased 180,000 tonnes of wheat, together with 120,000 tonnes of Romanian and 60,000 tonnes of Ukrainian origin wheat, for cargo Oct. 5-15.

For the present tender, GASC is searching for to purchase 55,000- to 60,000-tonne cargoes of the next:

U.S. North Pacific delicate white wheat;

U.S. onerous crimson winter wheat;

U.S. delicate crimson winter wheat;

Russian milling wheat;

Ukrainian milling wheat, and

Australian commonplace white wheat.

GASC can also be searching for 60,000-tonne cargoes of the next:

Canadian delicate wheat;

French milling wheat;

German milling wheat;

Argentine bread wheat;

Polish milling wheat;

Kazakh milling wheat;

Romanian milling wheat;

Bulgarian milling wheat;

Serbian milling wheat;

Hungarian milling wheat, and

Paraguayan milling wheat.

(Reporting by Nafisa Eltahir in Cairo; extra writing by Julie Ingwersen in Chicago; modifying by Chris Reese and Sandra Maler)

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