Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, bought 240,000 metric tons of the grain grown in Russia and Romania at a tender.
The state-run General Authority for Supply Commodities purchased 60,000 tons of Russian milling wheat at $272.90 a ton from Cargill Inc., Vice Chairman Nomani Nomani said from Cairo. It also bought an equal amount of the same type of grain at $277.49 a ton from Aston, he said.
