According to the official statistics data, in February 2014 Egypt imported 1.12 mln tonnes of grains, as opposed to 1.63 mln tonnes in the previous month, including 917.56 thsd tonnes of wheat and 203.32 thsd tonnes of maize.
It should be noted that the share of Ukrainian grains in the import volume totaled 21.7%, and the share of Russian grains – 18.7%.
Thus, in the reporting period the sea ports of Ukraine supplied 243.77 thsd tonnes of grains to Egypt (116.6 thsd tonnes of wheat, 127.17 thsd tonnes of maize). The sea ports of Russia supplied 209.73 thsd tonnes of wheat to the reporting direction.
