Insights and Stories on Egypt

Egypt bets big with historic 3.8 million metric ton wheat tender

Aug. 7, 2024 at 1:44 pm CDT

Egypt has launched a massive tender to import 3.8 million metric tons of wheat, its largest ever tender according to traders, as the country seeks to take advantage of a slump in global wheat prices to 4-year lows.

U.S. grains: Soybeans dip, despite exports

Aug. 30, 2023 at 4:08 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Soy, corn fall on crop tour’s promising early reports

Aug. 22, 2023 at 3:24 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

Egypt’s private sector wheat imports stall due to dollar shortage

Oct. 4, 2022 at 7:21 pm CDT

By Sarah El Safty

U.S. grains: Soybeans, wheat, corn fall as traders book profits

Aug. 25, 2022 at 6:43 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

First Ukraine grain deal ship docks in Turkey

Aug. 12, 2022 at 2:16 am CDT

Istanbul | Reuters –– The first grain ship to depart from Ukraine under a U.N.-brokered deal docked in Turkey on Thursday after 11 days at sea, Refinitiv data showed, and the ship’s agent in Turkey said it would continue to Egypt after unloading part of its cargo. The Razoni set […]

By Reuters

Canada seeks to boost foreign aid for food security

Aug. 12, 2022 at 1:08 am CDT

Amman | Reuters — An international food crisis exacerbated by the Ukraine war has spurred Canada to boost an over $6 billion annual foreign aid budget to help the most hard-hit countries in Africa and the Middle East, Canada’s aid minister said on Thursday. “The Ukraine crisis is creating shock […]

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans end lower on crop prospects

Jul. 19, 2022 at 7:33 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell more than two per cent on Tuesday and soybeans also declined on optimism for sizable U.S. crops and some forecasts for rain next week, despite pockets of stress from hot and dry conditions, traders said. Wheat futures finished lower after a choppy […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Egyptian delegation to visit India to discuss wheat imports

Mar. 29, 2022 at 5:05 pm CDT

New Delhi | Reuters — A delegation from Egypt will visit India in the first week of April to facilitate wheat imports as part of efforts to secure supplies and tide over shortages at one of the world’s biggest importers of the staple, Indian government sources said. Egypt, often the […]

By Mayank Bhardwaj

Ukraine shuts ports as conflict threatens grain supplies

Feb. 24, 2022 at 4:56 pm CST

Moscow/Kyiv | Reuters — Ukraine’s military has suspended commercial shipping at its ports after Russian forces invaded the country, an adviser to the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff said, stoking fear of supply disruption from leading grain and oilseeds exporters. Russia earlier ordered the Azov Sea closed to the movement […]

By Gleb Stolyarov Natalia Zinets Polina Devitt

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