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1986
The Marubeni Corp. of Tokyo,
Japan has completed the installation of an 800-tonne-per-hour ship
unloader at the West Japan Grain
Terminal.
Construction of the unit was
undertaken in Japan by Hamada
Heavy Industry Ltd. The design
and special components were provided by Simon-Carver Ltd., Cheadle, Cheshire, U.K.

million tonnes, but little of the new
space will be ready in time for the
1986 harvest.
The second development is a
lack of funds in the GSFMO to pay
for the wheat deliveries.

1996

The Vancouver Port Corp. has
selected Cargill Ltd. and Saskatchewan Wheat Pool as joint developers of a high throughput grain and
agricultural products facility at
The government of Saudi Arabia, Roberts Banks, in the port's outer
through the Grain Silos and Flour harbor.
Milling Organization (GSFMO),
The new export terminal is exhas announced the imposition of pected to cost more than C$175
drastic quotas on wheat purchases million ($116 million).
in order to avoid an overwhelming
Cargill Ltd. is a commodity merproduction glut.
chandiser and processor with opEven though prices guaranteed erations throughout Canada. The
to farmers for the 1986 crop had company has 101 grain storage
been slashed earlier, the harvest in facilities, including four port ter1986 will total 1.7 million tonnes. minals in the provinces of Ontario
This represents just about double and Quebec, and its storage capacthe current domestic consump- ity totals about 1.7 million tonnes.
tion level of between 800,000 and
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool is
900,000 tonnes.
Canada's largest grain handler.
Less than a decade ago, Saudi With 423 storage facilities, its toArabia produced hardly any wheat. tal storage capacity exceeds 3 mil6RRQ DIWHU LWV GRPHVWLF ÀRXU PLOO- lion tonnes. The company's two
ing capacity was built, the govern- port terminals include an existing
ment encouraged a massive expan- operation at Vancouver, which has
sion of its wheat acreage through a 240,000-tonne storage capacity
guaranteed prices of $1,000 per and loading rates of up to 2,400
tonne, the highest in the world. tonnes per hour.
From being a total importer to
In recent years, the Port of VanDFKLHYLQJVHOIVXI¿FLHQF\WRRNOHVV couver has been Canada's largthan a decade. Now, Saudi Arabia est grain exporting port, shipping
is faced with an overwhelming out slightly more than 14 million
surplus for the second consecutive tonnes in 1994. Currently, the port
year. The kingdom is also self-suf- KDV ¿YH JUDLQ H[SRUW IDFLOLWLHV ²
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including the Saskatchewan Wheat
Two developments made the im- Pool terminal - with total storage
position of quotas a necessity. One of 932,000 tonnes.
was a lack of grain storage, even
All of the existing facilities are
though a substantial expansion is located in the port's inner harbor
under way.
along the Burrard Inlet, some 20
The GSFMO has 900,000 tonnes kilometers north of Roberts Bank.
of storage space, which is nearly The largest single facility is a
¿OOHG ZLWK FXUUHQW VWRFNV 6WRUDJH 283,000-tonne terminal operated
capacity is being increased to 1.5 by the Alberta Wheat Pool.
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2006
The International Grains Council
(IGC) has appointed Etsuo Kitahara
the new IGC executive director.
Most recently the
vice-president of
the Japan International Cooperation Agency,
Kitahara, 54, has
Kitahara
served several
Japanese government agencies during his career.
The government of Japan welcomed Kitahara's appointment. In a
release, Japan's Ministry of Foreign
Affairs noted that previous IGC executive directors had been appointed
from grain exporting countries.
"Japan has been of the view that
it would make a contribution to
the development of the IGC that
someone with the understanding
of grain importing countries be appointed as the next executive director," MOFA said.

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PPB Group Berhad's whollyowned subsidiary, FFM Berhad,
plans to build a new 360-tonne-perGD\ZKHDWÀRXUPLOODW3UDL3URYLQFH
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mill will be located next to FFM's existing feed mill.
The total cost of the project is about
RM46 million ($12.2 million). FFM
LV0DOD\VLD¶VODUJHVWÀRXUPLOOHUSURducing more than 300,000 tonnes of
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WKDQ RI WKH FRXQWU\¶V ÀRXU UHquirements.
AWB provided 12 million tonnes
of wheat worth an estimated $4 billion over the life of the oil-for-food
program that operated from 1996
to 2003. "All AWB contracts under the oil-for-food program were
approved by the UN, and we deny
any allegations - if there are any
allegations - of corruption," AWB
spokesman Peter McBride said.

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