Adds tender particulars, background on earlier buy
CAIRO, April 23 (Reuters) – Egypt’s state grains purchaser, the Common Authority for Provide Commodities (GASC), set a young on Friday to purchase an unspecified quantity of wheat from world suppliers for cargo Aug. 11-20.
GASC Vice Chairman Ahmed Youssef mentioned the authority was in search of to purchase cargoes of soppy and/or milling wheat from america, 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 Tuesday, April 27, and should stay legitimate for 24 hours. Wheat bids needs to be free on board, with a separate freight provide. GASC mentioned it can pay for the grain with “at sight” letters of credit score.
In its final wheat tender on April 6, GASC purchased 345,000 tonnes of wheat for cargo Aug. 1-10, together with 290,000 tonnes of Russian wheat and 55,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat.
For the present tender, GASC is in search of to purchase 55,000- to 60,000-tonne cargoes of the next:
U.S. North Pacific smooth white wheat;
U.S. onerous purple winter wheat;
U.S. smooth purple winter wheat;
Russian milling wheat;
Ukrainian milling wheat, and
Australian normal white wheat.
GASC can also be in search of 60,000-tonne cargoes of the next:
Canadian smooth 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 Nadine Awadallah in Cairo; modifying by Rosalba O’Brien and Marguerita Choy)
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