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Corn (maize) map: ports and hubs

GrainsMap lists 180 ports and hubs that handle corn (maize), in 65 countries across Europe, the Black Sea, South America, North America, the Middle East and Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Grades covered: Yellow Corn (Maize), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), and White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM).

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Grades

Yellow Corn (Maize) (8.0% - 9.0%) - Energy-rich feed grain and starch feedstock. Massive imports into Iberian and Italian deficit clusters.
Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM) (8.0% - 9.5%) - Identity-preserved yellow maize certified non-OGM, for dry milling, starch, glucose and flaking grits. Segregated and documented through the chain, which is what the premium over feed maize pays for. Specified on mycotoxins, broken grain and moisture.
White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM) (8.0% - 9.5%) - Identity-preserved white maize for dry milling into grits, semolina and arepa or tortilla flour. Certified non-OGM and segregated from field to mill. Grown on a far narrower base than feed maize and carrying both the non-GMO premium and the white varietal premium. Specified on flint content, colour purity and moisture.

Ports and hubs (180)

Hub	Country	Type	Grades handled
Port of Algiers Algiers Algeria is among the largest wheat importers in Africa, buying chiefly through its state grain agency; Algiers is one of its main ports.	Algeria	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Bahia Blanca (Ingeniero White) Bahia Blanca Argentina's main deep-water grain port, at Ingeniero White, shipping wheat, barley and corn from the southern Pampas.	Argentina	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Gran Rosario (Up-River) Rosario Gran Rosario on the Parana River: the largest oilseed-crushing complex in the world and the loading point for most of Argentina's grain and soymeal exports. Prices here are Argentina's official FOB reference prices, which the government sets daily for export duties - a national figure, not a Rosario spot price. The open-data series used here ends in January 2025.	Argentina	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Necochea-Quequen Quequen Deep-water port at Necochea-Quequen, exporting wheat and barley from south-eastern Buenos Aires province.	Argentina	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Pergamino (Buenos Aires core zone) Pergamino In the heart of Argentina's zona nucleo, the most productive maize and soybean land in the country, around 100 km from the Gran Rosario crushing and export terminals.	Argentina	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Rio Cuarto (Cordoba) Rio Cuarto Centre of southern Cordoba, Argentina's leading maize province. Grain goes by road and rail to the Gran Rosario terminals.	Argentina	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Dalby (Darling Downs, Queensland) Dalby On the Western Downs, Queensland's main grain region for wheat, barley and summer crops. GrainCorp storage with rail to the Port of Brisbane.	Australia	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Chattogram Chattogram Bangladesh's main seaport and the entry point for most of its imported wheat.	Bangladesh	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Ghent (North Sea Port) Ghent Biofuel and compound feed powerhouse. Euro-Silo’s Grootdok and Sifferdok complexes hold around 650,000 MT, among the largest in Europe.	Belgium	Seaport Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) Santa Cruz de la Sierra Almost all of Bolivia's soybeans are grown in Santa Cruz department. Most of the crop is crushed locally; meal and oil leave by the Paraguay-Parana waterway towards Rosario and Uruguay, or by road and rail to the Andean countries.	Bolivia	Inland hub Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Campinas (Sao Paulo) Campinas Reference region for the CEPEA/ESALQ maize indicator and the B3 maize futures contract. Sao Paulo state feed mills and processors use more maize than the state grows, so it comes in by truck from the Centre-West and Parana.	Brazil	Inland hub Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Cascavel (Parana) Cascavel Western Parana origination in Brazil’s most intensive maize and poultry region, feeding both the local compounders and the Paranagua corridor.	Brazil	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Chapeco (western Santa Catarina) Chapeco Centre of the largest pig and poultry industry in Brazil. Its feed mills need far more maize than the region grows, so maize comes in by truck from Parana, Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraguay.	Brazil	Inland hub Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Dourados (Mato Grosso do Sul) Dourados Main grain district of southern Mato Grosso do Sul, growing soybeans and a large second-crop maize. Grain moves by road and rail to Paranagua and Santos.	Brazil	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Itacoatiara (Amazon river) Itacoatiara Amazon river terminal in Amazonas state where ocean-going ships load soybeans and maize brought by barge from Porto Velho along the Madeira.	Brazil	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Luis Eduardo Magalhaes (West Bahia, MATOPIBA) Luis Eduardo Magalhaes Storage and services hub of the MATOPIBA frontier on the BR-242, serving the soybean and maize farms of western Bahia. Exports leave mainly through the northern and north-eastern ports.	Brazil	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Miritituba (Tapajos river) Itaituba Cluster of transshipment stations on the Tapajos river in Para. Trucks from northern Mato Grosso on the BR-163 unload soybeans and maize onto barges bound for Barcarena and Santarem.	Brazil	River port Inland river	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Passo Fundo (Rio Grande do Sul) Passo Fundo The heart of Brazil’s wheat belt on the Rio Grande do Sul plateau, and the main domestic origination for a country that otherwise imports most of its milling wheat from Argentina.	Brazil	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Imbituba (Santa Catarina) Imbituba Southern Santa Catarina port that ships soybeans and maize and serves the state's pig and poultry industry.	Brazil	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Itaqui (Sao Luis) Sao Luis The anchor of the Arco Norte. Deep natural draft and a far shorter sailing distance to Europe and Asia than the southern ports, fed by the Ferrovia Norte-Sul from Tocantins, Maranhao and Mato Grosso.	Brazil	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Paranagua Paranagua Brazil’s second grain port and the export corridor for Parana and western Santa Catarina. Its dedicated grain berths run one of the highest loading cadences in the country.	Brazil	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Santos Santos The largest port in Latin America and Brazil’s principal grain outlet. The Macuco and Outeirinhos corridors load soybeans, meal, sugar and maize out of Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais and the Centre-West.	Brazil	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Sao Francisco do Sul Sao Francisco do Sul Santa Catarina’s bulk grain port, drawing soybeans and maize from the western plateau and from Parana by road and rail.	Brazil	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Porto Velho (Madeira river) Porto Velho Barge terminals on the Madeira river in Rondonia. Soybeans and maize from Rondonia and western Mato Grosso arrive by truck and go down-river by barge to Itacoatiara and Santarem for loading onto ships.	Brazil	River port Inland river	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Rio Verde (Goias) Rio Verde One of the main soybean and maize trading centres of south-west Goias, with large crushing and feed industries. Grain moves by road and rail to Santos and the northern ports.	Brazil	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Rondonopolis (Mato Grosso) Rondonopolis Mato Grosso’s rail head, where the Malha Norte line begins its run to Santos. One of the largest grain rail terminals in Latin America and the pivot between road collection and rail export.	Brazil	Inland hub Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Santarem (Tapajos and Amazon) Santarem Port at the meeting of the Tapajos and the Amazon where ocean-going ships load soybeans and maize, arriving by barge from Miritituba and Porto Velho and by road on the BR-163.	Brazil	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Sorriso (Mato Grosso) Sorriso One of the largest soybean-producing municipalities in Brazil, at the centre of the Mato Grosso cerrado. Soybeans and safrinha maize leave by road to the Miritituba barge terminals or by rail south.	Brazil	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Uberlandia (Minas Gerais) Uberlandia Triangulo Mineiro crossroads between the Centre-West and the Sao Paulo ports, with crushing capacity and rail access on the Ferrovia Centro-Atlantica.	Brazil	Inland hub Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Vila do Conde (Barcarena) Barcarena Para state terminal on the Amazon estuary, the outlet for the Tapajos and Madeira barge corridors that move Mato Grosso soybeans north instead of south to Santos.	Brazil	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Vitoria / Tubarao (Espirito Santo) Vitoria Port complex of Vitoria and Tubarao, linked by rail to Minas Gerais and Goias. It exports soybeans and maize and receives fertiliser and imported wheat.	Brazil	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Burgas Burgas Bulgaria's southern Black Sea port. Prices here are European Commission farm-gate quotations for the Burgas district; the Commission's Burgas FOB series ended in 2022.	Bulgaria	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Ruse (Danube) Ruse Bulgaria's main Danube river port, loading barges down to the Black Sea and up the Rhine-Main-Danube corridor. Prices are European Commission farm-gate quotations for the Ruse district.	Bulgaria	River port Inland river	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Varna Varna Bulgaria's principal Black Sea grain port. Prices here are European Commission farm-gate quotations for the Varna district: the Commission discontinued its Varna FOB series in 2023, and a three-year-old port price is not shown as current.	Bulgaria	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Montreal Montreal St. Lawrence export port for eastern Canadian grain and for prairie grain transshipped from Great Lakes lakers into ocean vessels.	Canada	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of San Antonio San Antonio Chile's busiest port and a principal entry point for its wheat and corn imports.	Chile	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Talcahuano / San Vicente (Biobio) Talcahuano Ports of the Biobio region in southern Chile. They receive wheat for the region's flour mills and maize and soymeal for animal and salmon feed.	Chile	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Changchun (Jilin) Changchun Capital of Jilin, at the centre of north-east China's maize belt and home to large maize processing industries. Surplus maize moves by rail to the Liaoning ports.	China	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Guangzhou Nansha Guangzhou Guangzhou's deep-water port in the Pearl River Delta, a major entry point for the feed grain and soybeans consumed in southern China.	China	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Harbin (Heilongjiang) Harbin Capital of Heilongjiang, China's largest grain-producing province, with the country's largest soybean area plus major maize and japonica rice crops. Sinograin holds state reserves across the province; grain moves south by rail to Dalian.	China	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Dalian Dalian North-east China port handling imported grain and oilseeds as well as corn shipped south from the north-eastern provinces.	China	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Qingdao Qingdao Shandong port and one of the main entry points for the soybeans China imports - the world's largest - to feed the province's crushing plants.	China	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Rizhao Rizhao Shandong port with large soybean crushing capacity beside its terminals.	China	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Zhengzhou (Henan) Zhengzhou Capital of Henan, China's largest wheat province, and home of the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, which lists wheat futures. A national rail hub for grain moving between north and south.	China	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Barranquilla Barranquilla Caribbean port through which Colombia, a large importer of feed corn, receives much of its grain.	Colombia	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Buenaventura Buenaventura Colombia's main Pacific port and an entry point for imported wheat and corn.	Colombia	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Cartagena Cartagena Colombia's largest port, on the Caribbean. It receives maize, wheat and soymeal for the feed and milling industry of the north and the interior.	Colombia	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Santa Marta Santa Marta Deep-water Caribbean port and one of Colombia's main entry points for imported maize, wheat and soybeans.	Colombia	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Puerto Caldera (Costa Rica) Caldera Costa Rica's main Pacific port and its main point of entry for cereals, with a dedicated grain berth run by Sociedad Portuaria Granelera de Caldera since 2015.	Costa Rica	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Cienfuegos Cienfuegos South-coast port and home of Cienfuegos Cereales, Cuba's largest mill, which grinds around 40% of the country's wheat flour.	Cuba	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Havana Havana Cuba's largest port. Cuba imports most of its wheat, maize, rice and soymeal; the state milling company has two flour mills in Havana.	Cuba	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba Eastern Cuba's main port; its Tricontinental pier handles bulk sugar exports and bulk grain imports, and the city has a state flour mill.	Cuba	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Aarhus Aarhus Denmark’s largest port, handling around 11 million tonnes a year including cereals, forage and fertiliser for the Jutland livestock sector.	Denmark	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Rio Haina (Dominican Republic) Haina The Dominican Republic's main bulk port, west of Santo Domingo. The country imports over 500,000 t of wheat and about 600,000 t of soymeal a year, nearly all its maize, and almost all of it from the US.	Dominican Republic	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Guayaquil Guayaquil Ecuador's principal port, handling its wheat and soymeal imports.	Ecuador	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Alexandria Alexandria Egypt's principal Mediterranean port. Egypt is one of the world's largest wheat importers, and Alexandria one of its main grain entry points.	Egypt	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Damietta Damietta Egyptian port at the Nile delta, handling a large share of the country's wheat and feed grain imports.	Egypt	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Acajutla (El Salvador) Acajutla El Salvador's main port, on the Pacific. Its solid bulk imports are led by maize, soymeal, wheat and rice; the ALCASA terminal stores about 143,000 t in silos and warehouses.	El Salvador	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Chartres Cereal Hub (Beauce) Chartres The Beauce, France’s flattest and most productive wheat plain. Cooperative silos load unit trains north to Rouen and Dunkirk for export.	France	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Orleans Cereal Hub (Loiret) Orleans Loire valley origination at the heart of Axereal country. Soft wheat and barley move by rail to the Atlantic and Channel export terminals.	France	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Brest (Bretagne) Brest Brittany feed import terminal serving Europe’s densest poultry and swine cluster. Raw materials arrive by coaster and leave by road to the compounders.	France	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Dunkirk (Nord Cereales) Dunkirk Deep-water export gateway for the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy wheat belt. Nord Cereales loads Panamax parcels for North Africa on a 14.2 m draft.	France	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of La Pallice (La Rochelle) La Rochelle Deep-water Atlantic export hub for the Poitou-Charentes and central French grain belt. Sica Atlantique loads Panamax parcels for Iberia, North Africa and the Mediterranean without the Seine tidal constraints of Rouen.	France	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Marseille-Fos Fos-sur-Mer France’s Mediterranean agribulk and crush gateway. Durum for southern semolina mills and oilseeds for the Fos crushers, with rail to the Rhone corridor.	France	Seaport Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize), White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Toulouse Cereal Hub (Occitanie) Toulouse South-western origination on the Garonne. Durum for the Mediterranean semolina trade and irrigated maize, railed to Bordeaux, Sete and Fos.	France	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize), White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Poti Poti Georgia's principal Black Sea port and the main entry point for its wheat imports.	Georgia	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Brake an der Weser Brake Lower Saxony’s leading feedstuffs import port. J. MUELLER’s agri terminal supplies the North German livestock belt with meal and feed grains.	Germany	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Regensburg Danube Hub Regensburg Upper Danube transshipment point for Bavarian grain, and the western end of the Danube corridor that runs down to Constanta.	Germany	River port Inland river	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Puerto Quetzal (Guatemala) Puerto San Jose Guatemala's Pacific port, where Terminal de Granos del Pacifico (Terpac) receives imported wheat, maize and soymeal for the country and its neighbours.	Guatemala	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Santo Tomas de Castilla (Guatemala) Santo Tomas de Castilla Guatemala's Caribbean port on Amatique Bay, mainly a dry-bulk port for grain and fertiliser, with a small silo terminal.	Guatemala	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Puerto Cortes (Honduras) Puerto Cortes Honduras's Caribbean port, handling about 90% of the country's sea trade, including its wheat, maize and soymeal imports. A dedicated grain terminal is being built.	Honduras	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Deendayal Port (Kandla) Kandla India's top port for bulk farm commodities on the Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat. Loads wheat, rice, maize and soymeal for export, and imports edible oils and pulses. Wheat arrives by rail from Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.	India	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Mundra Port (Gujarat) Mundra Adani's deep-water port on the Gulf of Kutch, India's largest commercial port by cargo. Bulk and container exports of rice, wheat, maize and millet, with rail links to the northern grain states.	India	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Kakinada Kakinada India's main rice export port, on the Andhra Pradesh coast, loading broken and non-basmati rice for Africa and Asia; recent data put it at over two-thirds of rice export volumes. Also ships maize.	India	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam Deep-water port on the Andhra Pradesh coast, handling rice and maize exports alongside Kakinada.	India	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Tanjung Perak (Surabaya) Surabaya East Java port importing wheat and soybeans.	Indonesia	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Tanjung Priok (Jakarta) Jakarta Indonesia's busiest port. Indonesia grows no wheat and is one of the world's largest wheat importers.	Indonesia	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Bandar Imam Khomeini Bandar Imam Khomeini Iran's main port for grain imports, at the head of the Gulf.	Iran	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Ashdod Ashdod Mediterranean port handling a large share of Israel's grain imports.	Israel	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Bologna Grain Exchange Hub Bologna Emilia-Romagna trading crossroads. The Bologna exchange quotes the Italian durum and soft wheat reference that the national milling industry trades against.	Italy	Inland hub Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Cremona Po Valley Feed Hub Cremona Po river port at the centre of Italy’s dairy and pig belt. Imported meal and local maize converge here for the Lombardy and Emilia compounders.	Italy	River port Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize), White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Bari (Puglia) Bari Adriatic durum import gate for the Puglian semolina and pasta industry, topping up the Tavoliere harvest with Black Sea and Canadian amber durum.	Italy	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Chioggia (Venice Lagoon) Chioggia Northern Adriatic agribulk terminal feeding the Veneto and Lombardy feed mills, with barge and road links into the Po plain.	Italy	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Ravenna (Docks Cereali) Ravenna Italy's primary agribulk gateway on the Adriatic Sea. Houses Docks Cereali, feeding the colossal feed and pasta mills across Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, and Veneto.	Italy	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize), White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Vercelli Rice Hub (Piedmont) Vercelli Europe’s rice capital. The irrigated Vercelli-Novara paddies produce the bulk of the EU crop, and the local borsa merci sets the continental reference.	Italy	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Kingston (Jamaica) Kingston Jamaica's main port. The deep-water grain terminal at Kingston Wharves serves the island's two flour mills, Jamaica Flour Mills (ADM) and Jamaica Grain and Cereals.	Jamaica	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Kashima Kashima Japan's principal feed-grain import port, on the Pacific coast of Ibaraki beside a cluster of feed mills.	Japan	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Kobe Kobe Kansai port importing wheat and feed grain for western Japan's flour and feed mills.	Japan	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Eldoret (North Rift) Eldoret Centre of Kenya's North Rift grain basket. The National Cereals and Produce Board's Eldoret depot buys and stores maize and wheat from the region's farmers.	Kenya	Inland hub Export	White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Mombasa Mombasa East Africa's largest port, importing wheat and corn for Kenya and the inland countries it serves.	Kenya	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port Klang Klang Malaysia's principal port, importing corn, wheat and soymeal.	Malaysia	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Culiacan (Sinaloa) Culiacan Centre of Sinaloa, Mexico's main commercial white maize state, growing about 70% of the autumn-winter crop under irrigation. Also grows sorghum.	Mexico	Inland hub Export	White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Altamira Altamira Industrial port in Tamaulipas, one of the main Gulf entry points for US maize, soybeans and wheat into Mexico's north-east.	Mexico	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Coatzacoalcos Coatzacoalcos Southern Gulf port on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, receiving bulk maize and wheat for south-east Mexico.	Mexico	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Lazaro Cardenas Lazaro Cardenas Deep-water Pacific port in Michoacan with rail links to central Mexico; mainly containers and bulk, including grain imports.	Mexico	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Manzanillo (Colima) Manzanillo Mexico's largest port by cargo, on the Pacific. Mostly containers, but it also takes a significant share of grain imports for Jalisco and the Bajio feed and milling industries.	Mexico	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Progreso (Yucatan) Progreso Yucatan's port at the end of a long offshore pier; Mexico's second grain import port, feeding the peninsula's poultry and pig industries.	Mexico	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Topolobampo (Sinaloa) Topolobampo Northern Sinaloa port serving one of Mexico's most productive farm zones. Exports wheat, sorghum and soybeans, and is being positioned for sorghum shipments to China.	Mexico	Seaport Export	White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Tuxpan Tuxpan Northern Veracruz port, the closest Gulf port to Mexico City, receiving bulk maize and wheat.	Mexico	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Veracruz Veracruz Mexico's main grain import port, taking around half of the country's seaborne bulk grain and most of its imported maize by ship, mostly from the US Gulf.	Mexico	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Giurgiulesti (Danube) Giurgiulesti Moldova's only port, on the Danube where it meets the Romanian and Ukrainian borders, loading grain for export.	Moldova	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Casablanca Casablanca Morocco's largest port and its main entry point for wheat, corn and barley imports.	Morocco	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Amsterdam Amsterdam The North Sea Canal agribulk cluster, second only to Rotterdam in Dutch grain and cocoa handling, with barge distribution across the Randstad.	Netherlands	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Rotterdam (Europoort & Botlek) Rotterdam Europe's supreme maritime gateway. Ultra-deep berths accept Capesize bulkers directly from South and North America, feeding massive Bunge and ADM crush plants and Rhine river barges into Germany.	Netherlands	Seaport Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Vlissingen-Terneuzen (Zeeland) Vlissingen Deep-water Scheldt terminals handling oilseeds and meal for the Zeeland crushers, with direct barge access to Ghent and Antwerp.	Netherlands	Seaport Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Tauranga Tauranga New Zealand's largest port by volume. New Zealand imports much of its milling wheat and feed grain.	New Zealand	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Corinto (Nicaragua) Corinto Nicaragua's largest port, on the Pacific, with a berth set up for grain and fertiliser.	Nicaragua	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Kano (Dawanau Grain Market) Kano Dawanau International Grain Market, on the Kano-Katsina road, is described as Africa's largest grain market. Traders from Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Benin and Burkina Faso deal in maize, sorghum, millet, rice and soybeans here, and it sets reference prices for northern Nigeria.	Nigeria	Inland hub Export	White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Oslo Oslo Norway’s main feed-grain import gate. A short growing season leaves the country structurally short, and Felleskjopet supplies the inland mills.	Norway	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Stavanger Stavanger South-western Norwegian feed terminal serving the Rogaland livestock cluster, the densest agricultural region in the country.	Norway	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Bahia Las Minas (Panama) Colon Bay east of Colon on the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal, with a bulk grain terminal.	Panama	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Cristobal (Colon, Panama) Colon Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal. DEPSA runs the grain terminal at Cristobal, with a silo berth discharging maize and soybeans; soymeal, maize and wheat are Panama's main grain imports.	Panama	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Villeta (Paraguay River) Villeta Paraguay River terminal near Asuncion. Paraguay is landlocked and one of the world's largest soybean exporters, shipping almost all of it by barge down the Paraguay-Parana waterway.	Paraguay	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Callao Callao Peru's main port, through which it imports most of its wheat and feed corn.	Peru	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Manila Manila The Philippines' principal port, importing wheat and feed grain.	Philippines	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Gdynia (BTZ) Gdynia Poland’s primary grain export and transshipment gateway. The Baltycki Terminal Zbozowy and Viterra berths load Polish wheat, rye and rapeseed.	Poland	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Szczecin-Swinoujscie (Oder) Szczecin Oder river gateway serving western Poland and eastern Germany, with Elewator Ewa handling wheat, barley and maize for short-sea export.	Poland	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Beja Cereal & Rice Hub (Alentejo) Beja The Alentejo breadbasket. Dryland wheat on the rolling plains around Beja, with irrigated rice and maize drawn from the Sado, Mira and Alqueva perimeters feeding the Lisbon and Setubal mills.	Portugal	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize), White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Coimbra Cereal & Rice Hub (Baixo Mondego) Coimbra The Baixo Mondego floodplain, Portugal’s densest rice belt. Irrigated paddy and maize from the Mondego valley move the short distance to Aveiro and Leixoes, or south to the Lisbon milling cluster.	Portugal	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize), White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Aveiro (Gafanha da Nazaré) Aveiro Portugal’s central-coast agribulk port on the Ria de Aveiro, supplying the dense Beira Litoral feed compounders and poultry integrators between Porto and Coimbra.	Portugal	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize), White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Leixões (Porto) Matosinhos / Porto Northern Portugal's prime agribulk port serving the dense dairy, swine, and poultry feed manufacturers of Entre Douro e Minho.	Portugal	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Lisbon (Trafaria & Beato) Lisbon Portugal's strategic grain import gateway on the Tagus estuary. Houses the monumental Trafaria silo terminal, capable of discharging Panamax and Capesize bulkers to feed national flour mills and feed compounders.	Portugal	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize), White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Setúbal Setúbal Sado River port catering to Alentejo agro-industrial processors, animal feed compounding, and grain warehousing.	Portugal	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize), White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Constanta (Comvex & Chimpex) Constanta Black Sea mega-hub and transshipment powerhouse. Confluence of the Danube-Black Sea canal, loading Capesize and Panamax bulkers with Romanian, Ukrainian, Serbian, and Hungarian crops.	Romania	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Galati (Danube) Galati Romania's largest Danube port and a barge-to-ship transshipment point for grain moving down to the Black Sea.	Romania	River port Inland river	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Astrakhan (Volga delta, Caspian) Astrakhan Volga delta port and, with nearby Olya, Russia's main Caspian route for wheat, barley and maize to Iran and Central Asia.	Russia	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Krasnodar (Kuban) Krasnodar Capital of Krasnodar Krai, Russia's second wheat region with about 12% of the crop, and a large maize and sunflower producer. Its grain moves by rail to Novorossiysk, Taman and Kavkaz.	Russia	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port Kavkaz (Kerch Strait) Kavkaz Deep-water anchorage and terminals at the Kerch Strait, where wheat brought down the Azov Sea and Don in small river-sea vessels is topped up into ocean bulk carriers.	Russia	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Novorossiysk Novorossiysk Russia's largest Black Sea port and the main outlet for its wheat exports.	Russia	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Taman Taman Russian deep-water grain terminal on the Taman peninsula, facing the Kerch Strait.	Russia	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Voronezh (Central Black Earth) Voronezh Centre of the black-earth belt south of Moscow, growing wheat, sugar beet, sunflower and maize; grain goes south by rail to the Azov and Black Sea ports.	Russia	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Jeddah Islamic Port Jeddah Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port. The kingdom imports nearly all its wheat and is one of the world's largest buyers of feed barley.	Saudi Arabia	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
King Abdulaziz Port (Dammam) Dammam Saudi Arabia's Gulf port, receiving grain for the kingdom's eastern provinces.	Saudi Arabia	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Bothaville (Maize Triangle, Free State) Bothaville In the middle of South Africa's Maize Triangle and home of the NAMPO farm show. Senwes runs several grain silos in and around the town, handling white and yellow maize, soybeans and sunflower seed.	South Africa	Inland hub Export	White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Durban Durban Southern Africa's busiest port. South Africa imports much of its wheat and, in most seasons, exports corn.	South Africa	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Busan Busan Korea's largest port, handling grain imports for the south-east of the country.	South Korea	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Incheon Incheon South Korean port on the Yellow Sea, importing wheat and corn for the Seoul region.	South Korea	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Barcelona (Bunge & Cargill) Barcelona Catalonia's premier agribulk import and soybean crushing nexus. Directly supplies the immense livestock, poultry, and porcine belt of Catalonia and Aragon.	Spain	Seaport Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize), White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Bilbao (Santurtzi) Bilbao / Santurtzi Deep-water Cantabrian gateway feeding the Basque Country and the upper Ebro. The outer harbour takes Panamax bulkers year-round, and grain moves inland by rail to the Ebro valley compounders.	Spain	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Santander (Raos) Santander Spain’s principal cereal import gate for the Castilla y León livestock belt. The Raos bulk terminals discharge straight to rail and road for the climb onto the northern meseta.	Spain	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Seville (Guadalquivir Silos) Seville Andalusia's inland river port on the Guadalquivir, famed as the epicenter for Mediterranean Durum Wheat and premium sunflower seeds.	Spain	River port Export	White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM)
Port of Tarragona Tarragona Spain's largest volume agribulk import port (>5M tonnes/year). Direct pipeline into the Ebro valley feed industry.	Spain	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Zaragoza Inland Grain Hub (PLAZA) Zaragoza The Ebro valley multimodal grain crossroads. Rail-fed from Tarragona and Bilbao, it supplies one of Europe’s densest pig and poultry clusters across Aragón and inland Catalonia.	Spain	Inland hub Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Colombo Colombo Sri Lanka's main port, through which it imports nearly all of its wheat.	Sri Lanka	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Taichung Taichung Taiwan's west-coast port and a main entry point for its imported corn, soybeans and wheat.	Taiwan	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam Tanzania's principal port, handling wheat imports for the country and its landlocked neighbours.	Tanzania	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Nakhon Sawan (Central Thailand) Nakhon Sawan Where the Ping and Nan rivers join to form the Chao Phraya; Thailand's leading up-country rice centre, with more rice mills than any other province. Milled rice moves down to Bangkok and Laem Chabang.	Thailand	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Laem Chabang Laem Chabang Thailand's main deep-sea port, importing wheat and soymeal; Thailand is also one of the world's leading rice exporters.	Thailand	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Samsun Samsun Turkish Black Sea port on the northern Anatolian coast. Turkey is among the world's largest wheat importers, much of it milled and re-exported as flour.	Türkiye	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Izmail (Danube) Izmail Ukrainian Danube port that became a principal grain export route when the Black Sea ports were blockaded in 2022.	Ukraine	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Mykolaiv Mykolaiv Ukrainian port on the Southern Bug, historically one of the largest grain export hubs in the country; its operations have been heavily disrupted since 2022.	Ukraine	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Odesa & Chornomorsk Odesa Historic Ukrainian deep-water grain gateway handling high-capacity export flows into the Mediterranean and worldwide.	Ukraine	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Pivdennyi Pivdennyi Deep-water Ukrainian port east of Odesa, one of the three ports of the Greater Odesa grain export corridor.	Ukraine	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Reni (Danube) Reni Ukrainian Danube port which, with Izmail, carried much of Ukraine's grain exports while the Black Sea ports were blockaded in 2022.	Ukraine	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Belfast Belfast The major animal feed raw material import hub for the Irish livestock sector, with W&R Barnett operating silos above 150,000 MT.	United Kingdom	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Tilbury Grain Terminal Tilbury The UK’s largest and most established grain terminal. 136,000 t of silo capacity and over 1.4 Mt a year, with marine towers running to 8,000 t a day.	United Kingdom	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) Amarillo Centre of the Texas Panhandle, where wheat and sorghum are grown and the feedlots and dairies are among the largest in the US. The feed industry's demand outruns local crops, so maize arrives by rail from the Corn Belt.	United States	Inland hub Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Cedar Rapids One of the largest corn-processing centres in the world, in the heart of the Iowa corn and soybean belt, with Cargill and ADM corn wet-milling and soybean crushing plants.	United States	Inland hub Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Chicago Chicago Delivery point for the Chicago Board of Trade corn, soybean and soft red winter wheat contracts, and the reference market for most North American grain pricing.	United States	Inland hub Inland river	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Decatur (Illinois) Decatur A major soybean crushing and corn processing centre in the Illinois corn belt.	United States	Inland hub Crushing / transshipment	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Fargo (Red River Valley) Fargo Centre of the Red River Valley in North Dakota and Minnesota, the main US region for hard red spring wheat, and a large soybean, maize and barley district. Grain moves by rail to Duluth and the Pacific Northwest.	United States	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Hutchinson (Kansas) Hutchinson Central Kansas terminal market in the hard red winter wheat belt, with large rail terminal elevators (Cargill Hutchinson East handles wheat, maize, sorghum and soybeans). Wheat moves by rail to the Texas Gulf.	United States	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Kalama / Longview (Columbia River) Kalama Deep-draft Columbia River export elevators downstream of Portland, loading corn and soybeans railed from the Midwest alongside Pacific Northwest wheat.	United States	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Kansas City Kansas City The principal cash and futures pricing point for hard red winter wheat, on the Missouri River at the eastern edge of the southern Plains wheat belt.	United States	Inland hub Inland river	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Los Angeles / Long Beach (San Pedro Bay) Long Beach The biggest US ports for containerised grain: together they carry close to half of US waterborne container grain exports, led by DDGS and soybeans bound for Asia.	United States	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Lower Mississippi / New Orleans New Orleans The largest grain export gateway in the United States. River elevators between Baton Rouge and the Gulf load ocean vessels from barges brought down the Mississippi, and carry the bulk of US corn and soybean exports.	United States	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Minneapolis Minneapolis The principal pricing point for hard red spring wheat and durum, and the upper Mississippi barge head for northern Plains grain.	United States	Inland hub Inland river	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Omaha (Nebraska) Omaha Rail and trading centre for Nebraska and western Iowa maize and soybeans, on the Union Pacific main line to the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf; Nebraska is also a leading ethanol and DDGS producer.	United States	Inland hub Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Texas Gulf port with a public grain elevator, shipping sorghum, maize and wheat from south Texas and the Plains; a main US port for sorghum exports.	United States	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Vancouver USA (Columbia River) Vancouver (WA) Deep-draft Columbia River grain port across from Portland, loading wheat, maize and soybeans that arrive by rail and barge from the Plains and the Pacific Northwest for Asian buyers.	United States	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Portland (Columbia River) Portland Columbia River export elevators and the outlet of the Columbia-Snake barge system. The principal export route for soft white wheat to Asia, with hard red spring and winter wheat, corn and soybeans.	United States	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
St. Louis Harbor (Mississippi) St. Louis Where the Missouri and Illinois rivers meet the Mississippi; the harbor has the highest concentration of grain-barge loading capacity on the US inland waterways. Maize and soybeans go down-river to the Gulf export elevators.	United States	River port Inland river	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Tacoma / Seattle (Puget Sound) Tacoma Puget Sound export terminals shipping Midwest corn and soybeans, brought across by rail, to Asian markets on the shortest US mainland crossing.	United States	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Texas Gulf (Houston) Houston Texas Gulf export elevators on the Houston Ship Channel, loading hard red winter wheat, corn and sorghum drawn from the southern Plains by rail.	United States	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Toledo Toledo Lake Erie grain port handling soft red winter wheat, corn and soybeans from Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.	United States	Seaport Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Nueva Palmira Nueva Palmira Uruguay's principal grain port on the Uruguay River, and a transshipment point for soybeans barged down from Paraguay and Bolivia.	Uruguay	River port Export	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Puerto Cabello Puerto Cabello Venezuela's main port and the entry point for most of its imported wheat, maize and soybeans, close to the flour mills and feed plants of Carabobo and the central region.	Venezuela	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Cai Mep (Ho Chi Minh City) Ba Ria-Vung Tau Deep-water port serving Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam imports large volumes of corn, wheat and soymeal for its feed industry.	Vietnam	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Port of Hai Phong Hai Phong Northern Vietnam's main port, importing feed grain for the Red River Delta.	Vietnam	Seaport Import	Yellow Corn (Maize)
Lusaka (Zambia) Lusaka Seat of Zambia's Food Reserve Agency, which holds the national maize reserve in sheds and silos across the country. Zambia's surplus maize is exported by road and rail to its neighbours.	Zambia	Inland hub Export	White Corn (Food Grade, Non-OGM), Yellow Corn (Maize)

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