The Egyptian state's main wheat buying agency said that it wanted to buy 55,000 to 60,000 tonnes of optional-origin wheat for shipment July 11-20. Tenders should reach Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) by noon local time (0900 GMT) on Saturday and the results should come out around 4:00 pm (1300 GMT) on the same day. Wheat bids should be free-on-board, with a separate freight offer. Nomani Nomani, vice chairman of GASC, said he was seeking cargoes of 55,000 to 60,000 tonnes of US North Pacific soft white wheat, US hard red wheat, US soft red winter wheat, and/or Canadian soft wheat. GASC was also seeking cargoes of 60,000 tonnes French milling wheat, Australian standard white wheat, Australian hard wheat, German milling wheat, Argentine bread wheat, Russian milling wheat, Kazakhstan milling wheat, and/or UK milling wheat (ukp or uks variety). In its latest international purchase on June 3, GASC bought 120,000 tonnes of Russian wheat and 60,000 tonnes of French wheat for shipment July 1-10.
