Ukraine's recent corn price increases have made the supply to North Africa much less competitive.  It appears that importers of larger vessels will probably try to switch to U.S. origin, while smaller importers will be looking closely at Romania and Bulgaria.

  News Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST COMMENTS As a follow-up to last week's comments on the Ukrainian situation's effects on Egyptian private sector corn importers, the market reports that the majors (Cargill, Cairo3A, Venus, Medsofts, etc.) are having little or no difficulty to date with importing from that country. However, all of these listed companies do have shipments pending from other origins that predate the current situation and were booked several weeks ag...