Egypt's main wheat buying agency, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), set a tender on Thursday to buy an unspecified amount of wheat from global suppliers for shipment May 1-10. Mamdouh Abdel Fattah, vice chairman of GASC, one of the world's biggest state importers of wheat, is seeking to buy cargoes of soft and/or milling wheat from the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Poland, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Romania.
Tenders should reach GASC by noon local time (1000 GMT) on Friday and the results should come out after 3:30 pm (1330 GMT) on the same day. Wheat bids should be free-on-board, with a separate freight offer.