Sorghum map: ports and hubs
GrainsMap lists 25 ports and hubs that handle sorghum, in 10 countries across Europe, South America, North America, the Middle East and Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Grades covered: Grain Sorghum.
ExportImportCrushing / transitInland river
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By region
- North America (12)
- Asia (3)
- Oceania (4)
Grades
- Grain Sorghum - Feed and food grain sorghum (milo). The United States, Australia and Argentina are the export origins, China and Japan the main importers; across the Sahel and East Africa it is a staple food crop. Specified on moisture, test weight, foreign material and tannin.
Ports and hubs (25)
| Hub | Country | Type | Grades handled |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| Moree (Northern NSW) Moree Centre of the northern NSW grain belt, known for prime hard wheat and durum. GrainCorp receival and storage site with rail to the east-coast ports. | Australia | Inland hub Export | Grain Sorghum |
| Port of Brisbane Brisbane Queensland's principal grain export port. | Australia | Seaport Export | Grain Sorghum |
| Port of Newcastle (NSW) Newcastle New South Wales grain export port serving the northern cropping regions. | Australia | Seaport Export | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| Enid (Oklahoma) Enid Known as the 'Wheat Capital' of the United States for its terminal elevators, among the largest grain storage concentrations in the world. Hard red winter wheat moves by rail to the Texas Gulf ports. | United States | Inland hub Export | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |
| 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 | Grain Sorghum |