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companies currently operate export
and import facilities at the docks
According to the International and have invested in new cargo
Wheat Council, the government of KDQGOLQJ HTXLSPHQW DQG WHFKQROArgentina has announced its inten- ogy at the terminal.
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Continental U.K., a subsidiary
million to improve grain loading fa- of Continental Grain Co., expects
cilities at the Atlantic port of Quen- annual throughput of feed to inTXHQZKLFKUDQNVDV¿IWKDPRQJWKH crease to nearly 300,000 tonnes
country's major grain shipping ports. with the opening of the new store,
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deep-water ports of Bahia Blanca 20,000 tonnes.
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province. Argentina's Atlantic ports
Continental Grain Co., New York,
are able to accommodate the larger- announced it had elected three new
size vessels used by its major cuspresidents
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tomers, including the Soviet Union
its Commodity
and Iran.
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Cuba in 1985 because of price com3RXO6FKURHGHUZDVQDPHGSUHVpetition from the European Com- ident, commodity marketing for
munity.
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&XED¶VDQQXDOÀRXULPSRUWUHTXLUH- president of Conti-Financial, a new
ments of about 180,000 tonnes are operating unit of Continental based
purchased and donated by the So- in New York.
viet Union. The lost business for
Canadian mills amounts to 90,000 2005
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Cuba has amounted to about 10% nounced that it has agreed to purchase controlling interest in an inteof Canada's mill grind.
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ing plant in the port city of Rizhao,
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A new agri-bulk terminal to han- Sanwei Group Ltd.
dle imported feed ingredients and
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fertilizers was opened by Associ- will link Bunge directly to customDWHG%ULWLVK3RUWVDW6RXWKDPSWRQ ers in the expanding soybean meal
in southern England.
and oil markets in the Shandong re7KH 0XOEHUU\ WHUPLQDO EXLOW gion. Sanwei will retain a minority
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age, was developed from long-term venture company.
agreements between Continental
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China's consumption of soybean
meal has risen by an average annual
rate of 11% since 1998. The USDA
estimates that the nation will consume around 22 million tonnes this
year, which represents roughly 16%
of global consumption.
Shandong province is one of the
largest and fastest growing meat
producing regions in China, and it
also has one of the highest levels of
per capita vegetable oil consumption of any province in the nation.
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in 2003, has a daily crushing and
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Iran will export 200,000 tonnes
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Tehran in decades, arrived in the
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"We have discussed export of
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counterparts, have agreed on the
price and will soon start delivering
it," Shariamadari said.
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wheat last year. Having met domestic consumption of more than 11
million tonnes, it stopped importing
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Years from now, the U.S. grainbased food industry may look back
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points in whole grains innovation.
On the same day ConAgra Foods,
Inc. unveiled a new line of whole
wheat burritos and chimichangas at
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comes from Ultragrain, a white
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