Egypt’s GASC seeks wheat for Sept. 1-10 shipment.

Egypt General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) set a tender on Monday to buy an unspecified amount of wheat from global suppliers for shipment from Sept 1-10. GASC Vice Chairman said the authority is seeking to buy cargoes of soft and/or milling wheat from the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Poland, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Paraguay. Tenders should reach GASC on 25 July. The results should come out after 3:30 p.m. on the same day. Wheat bids should be free-on-board, with a separate freight offer. At its last wheat tender on July 18, GASC bought 120,000 tonnes of Russian wheat, 120,000 tonnes of Romanian wheat and 60,000 tonnes of French wheat.