The Egyptian government's main wheat buyer said it bought 285,000 tonnes of US and Canadian wheat on Thursday for shipment between August 21 and 31. Sayed el-Hefny, vice chairman of the government's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), gave the following breakdown of the purchases (all prices FOB):
-- 60,000 tonnes of US soft white wheat from United Harvest at $143.35/tonne
-- 55,000 tonnes of US soft red winter wheat from Perdue at $141.30/tonne
-- 60,000 tonnes of Canadian wheat from Bunge at $139/tonne
-- two 55,000-tonne cargoes (for a total of 110,000 tonnes) of Canadian wheat from Dreyfus at $139/tonne.