Egypt Will Require Inspections of Wheat at Ports of Shipment

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Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, will require inbound cargoes of the grain to be inspected by officials of its agriculture ministry before dispatch from ports of shipment.

The inspections, which were voluntary in the past, will now be enforced in tenders issued by the state-run wheat buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities, Vice Chairman Nomani Nomani said today by phone.