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has reached an agreement in prinFLSOH WR DFTXLUH WKH $PD /RXLVLana, U.S., export grain terminal
of Farmers Export Co., Overland
Park, Kansas, U.S.
6HSDUDWHO\$'0VDLGLWZDVQHgotiating to acquire several oilseed
extraction operations of Unilever
P.L.C. at Europort, Netherlands,
and at Spyck and Hamburg, Federal
Republic of Germany.
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IRUWKH¿UVWKDOIRI+DUU\+DUrison, chairman of Simon Engineering P.L.C., revealed that the company has closed its grain terminals
construction business.
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and project management, rather
than on an entire civil engineering
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announced a plan to invest $130
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on the international market" over
the next three years.
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president of the wholly-owned subsidiary of Minneapolis, Minnesota,

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investment will be made within the
next year for modernization of three
oilseed-crushing facilities, including $31 million for expansion of its
multiple grains crushing mill in BaKLD%ODQFD$UJHQWLQD
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products and is second-largest in
terms of overall exports.

age and transshipment of grain.
European judges have issued a
ruling that prevents E.U. countries
from turning themselves into "GMfree" zones.
The Court of Justices decided a
ban on the cultivation of genetically
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was illegal. The decision angered
environmental campaigners, who
called for a review of E.U. law.
The ban was imposed by the govHUQPHQWRI8SSHU$XVWULDRQWKHEDFernando T. Coutinho, formerly sis of massive public opposition to
with the Santista Group and the the technology. However, the demoBrazilian Wheat Board, and Luiz cratic wish of the population has efCarlos Ribeiro, formerly an exec- fectively been overruled by the E.U.
XWLYHZLWK7ULQL6$KDYHIRUPHG and its courts.
a new wheat trading company,
The E.U. said its own food and
"Cotrig" Comercio de Graos, crop watchdogs, the European Food
Ltda. The new company will focus 6DIHW\$XWKRULW\ KDG QRW SURYLGHG
on buying domestic and imported any evidence of health or environZKHDWIRU%UD]LOLDQÀRXUPLOOFXV- mental dangers.
tomers.
Coutinho and Ribeiro combine 30
Brazil's railway operators say
years of experience in international they plan to invest nearly $4 bilwheat markets through their work OLRQ GXULQJ WKH QH[W ¿YH \HDUV WR
with the now-defunct wheat board, double capacity on their lines.
which had been responsible for supMRS Logistica plans $1.1 bilSO\LQJZKHDWWR%UD]LO¶VÀRXUPLOOV lion of investments over the next
before the company's marketing ¿YH \HDUV DQG %UDVLO )HUURYLDV
system was liberalized.
plans to invest $572 million in its
infrastructure and renovation of
2005
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Bunge, which had until recently - rail company CFN Transnorbeen interested only in the Russian destina's - aims to join together
market of vegetable oil, plans to grain producing areas in Brazil's
establish a chain of 12 elevators in central-western region with two
that country.
ports in the northeast: Suape port
The New York-based company in Pernambuco and Pecem port
has already bought the Kholmsky in Ceara. The project may run as
ÀRXU PLOO ZLWK FDSDFLW\ RI DERXW high as $2.2 billion, according to
130,000 tonnes of grain in the Kras- CFN president Jayme Nicolato.
nodar Territory as well as a grain
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terminal in Rostov-on-Don for $10 linked indirectly via a stretch of
million.
the 2,066 km north-south railroad
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the company is going to buy and/or capital Belem and Goias' state
build another 10 to 12 elevators to capital Goiania. The project is exprovide warehousing facilities for a pected to take some pressure of
future oil extraction plant in the Vo- ports located in the more industrironezh Region, as well as for stor- alized South.

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