Regional Updates MIDDLE EAST/MEDITERRANEAN COMMENTS Russia and Syria are reportedly about to cooperate on a wheat hub in the latter country for the Middle Eastern wheat import markets. This project will mean an expansion of ports there with added grain storage and transshipment facilities along with improved domestic railway and road links. Cairo Poultry, one of Egypt’s largest integrated poultry companies, reports that profits are down almost 68 percent in the first nine months of 2018 despite higher sales of just over 6 percent during the same period. There was no published comment on the reason for the decline in profits. Turkey, the UAE and India (among others) have been granted waivers by the U.S. that will allow those countr...