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Soybeans and soybean meal map: ports and hubs

GrainsMap lists 133 ports and hubs that handle soybeans and soybean meal, in 51 countries across Europe, South America, North America, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia. Grades covered: Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) and Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%).

Bahia Blanca (Ingeniero White)Gran Rosario (Up-River)Pergamino (Buenos Aires core zone)Rio Cuarto (Cordoba)Port of ChattogramPort of Ghent (North Sea Port)Port of Liege (Meuse)Puerto Aguirre (Paraguay-Parana waterway)Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia)Campinas (Sao Paulo)Cascavel (Parana)Dourados (Mato Grosso do Sul)Itacoatiara (Amazon river)Luis Eduardo Magalhaes (West Bahia, MATOPIBA)Miritituba (Tapajos river)Passo Fundo (Rio Grande do Sul)Port of Imbituba (Santa Catarina)Port of Itaqui (Sao Luis)Port of ParanaguaPort of Rio GrandePort of SantosPort of Sao Francisco do SulPorto Velho (Madeira river)Rio Verde (Goias)Rondonopolis (Mato Grosso)Salvador / Aratu (Bahia)Santarem (Tapajos and Amazon)Sorriso (Mato Grosso)Uberlandia (Minas Gerais)Vila do Conde (Barcarena)Vitoria / Tubarao (Espirito Santo)Manitoba (Winnipeg)MontrealSaskatchewan (Regina)Port of San AntonioTalcahuano / San Vicente (Biobio)Changchun (Jilin)Guangzhou NanshaHarbin (Heilongjiang)Port of DalianPort of QingdaoPort of RizhaoPort of BarranquillaPort of BuenaventuraPort of CartagenaPort of Santa MartaPuerto Caldera (Costa Rica)Port of HavanaPort of AarhusPort of Rio Haina (Dominican Republic)Port of GuayaquilPort of AlexandriaPort of DamiettaPort of Acajutla (El Salvador)Port of Brest (Bretagne)Port of Marseille-FosHannover Feed Hub (Lower Saxony)Port of Brake an der WeserPuerto Quetzal (Guatemala)Santo Tomas de Castilla (Guatemala)Puerto Cortes (Honduras)Deendayal Port (Kandla)Indore (Madhya Pradesh)Jawaharlal Nehru Port (Nhava Sheva)Tanjung Perak (Surabaya)Tanjung Priok (Jakarta)Bandar Imam KhomeiniPort of AshdodCremona Po Valley Feed HubPort of Chioggia (Venice Lagoon)Port of Ravenna (Docks Cereali)Port of KashimaPort of KobePort KlangPort of AltamiraPort of Manzanillo (Colima)Port of Progreso (Yucatan)Port of Topolobampo (Sinaloa)Port of VeracruzPort of AmsterdamPort of Rotterdam (Europoort & Botlek)Vlissingen-Terneuzen (Zeeland)Zwolle-Meppel Inland HubPort of Corinto (Nicaragua)Kano (Dawanau Grain Market)Port of OsloPort of StavangerPort of KarachiBahia Las Minas (Panama)Cristobal (Colon, Panama)Villeta (Paraguay River)Port of CallaoPort of ManilaPort of Aveiro (Gafanha da Nazaré)Port of Leixões (Porto)Port of Lisbon (Trafaria & Beato)Jeddah Islamic PortBothaville (Maize Triangle, Free State)Port of DurbanPort of BusanPort of IncheonPort of Barcelona (Bunge & Cargill)Port of Bilbao (Santurtzi)Port of Santander (Raos)Zaragoza Inland Grain Hub (PLAZA)Port of Malmo (Copenhagen Malmo Port)Port of TaichungPort of Laem ChabangPort of BelfastPort of Tilbury Grain TerminalCedar Rapids (Iowa)ChicagoDecatur (Illinois)Fargo (Red River Valley)Hutchinson (Kansas)Kalama / Longview (Columbia River)Kansas CityLos Angeles / Long Beach (San Pedro Bay)Lower Mississippi / New OrleansMinneapolisOmaha (Nebraska)Port of Vancouver USA (Columbia River)Portland (Columbia River)St. Louis Harbor (Mississippi)Tacoma / Seattle (Puget Sound)Texas Gulf (Houston)ToledoNueva PalmiraPort of MontevideoPuerto CabelloCai Mep (Ho Chi Minh City)Port of Hai PhongLusaka (Zambia)

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Ports and hubs (133)

HubCountryTypeGrades 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.
ArgentinaSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
ArgentinaRiver port
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
ArgentinaInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
ArgentinaInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Chattogram
Chattogram
Bangladesh's main seaport and the entry point for most of its imported wheat.
BangladeshSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BelgiumSeaport
Crushing / transshipment
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Liege (Meuse)
Liege
Belgium’s inland port on the Meuse, the largest river port in the country after Paris in the wider region. Barges connect Antwerp to the Walloon mills.
BelgiumRiver port
Inland river
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Puerto Aguirre (Paraguay-Parana waterway)
Puerto Quijarro
Bolivia's river port on the Tamengo canal, its outlet to the Paraguay-Parana waterway. Soybeans and soymeal go by barge down-river to Rosario and Nueva Palmira.
BoliviaRiver port
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
BoliviaInland hub
Crushing / transshipment
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
BrazilInland hub
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Cascavel (Parana)
Cascavel
Western Parana origination in Brazil’s most intensive maize and poultry region, feeding both the local compounders and the Paranagua corridor.
BrazilInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BrazilInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BrazilRiver port
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BrazilInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BrazilRiver port
Inland river
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BrazilInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Imbituba (Santa Catarina)
Imbituba
Southern Santa Catarina port that ships soybeans and maize and serves the state's pig and poultry industry.
BrazilSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BrazilSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
BrazilSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Rio Grande
Rio Grande
The southern grain gateway on the Lagoa dos Patos, serving Rio Grande do Sul. Handles soybeans and meal outbound, and is the natural outlet for the state’s rice and wheat belts.
BrazilSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
BrazilSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
BrazilSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
BrazilRiver port
Inland river
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BrazilInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
BrazilInland hub
Crushing / transshipment
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Salvador / Aratu (Bahia)
Salvador
Grain terminals on the Bay of All Saints. Soybeans from western Bahia are shipped here, and wheat is received for the flour mills of the north-east.
BrazilSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BrazilRiver port
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BrazilInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BrazilInland hub
Crushing / transshipment
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
BrazilSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
BrazilSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Manitoba (Winnipeg)
Winnipeg
Eastern prairie province and historic centre of the Canadian grain trade. Prices here are Statistics Canada provincial farm-gate averages, not quotations at Winnipeg.
CanadaInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Montreal
Montreal
St. Lawrence export port for eastern Canadian grain and for prairie grain transshipped from Great Lakes lakers into ocean vessels.
CanadaSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Saskatchewan (Regina)
Regina
Canada's largest wheat, durum and canola producing province. Prices here are Statistics Canada provincial farm-gate averages, not quotations at Regina.
CanadaInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of San Antonio
San Antonio
Chile's busiest port and a principal entry point for its wheat and corn imports.
ChileSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
ChileSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
ChinaInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
ChinaSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
ChinaInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Dalian
Dalian
North-east China port handling imported grain and oilseeds as well as corn shipped south from the north-eastern provinces.
ChinaSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
ChinaSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Rizhao
Rizhao
Shandong port with large soybean crushing capacity beside its terminals.
ChinaSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Barranquilla
Barranquilla
Caribbean port through which Colombia, a large importer of feed corn, receives much of its grain.
ColombiaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Buenaventura
Buenaventura
Colombia's main Pacific port and an entry point for imported wheat and corn.
ColombiaSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
ColombiaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Santa Marta
Santa Marta
Deep-water Caribbean port and one of Colombia's main entry points for imported maize, wheat and soybeans.
ColombiaSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 RicaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
CubaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
DenmarkSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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 RepublicSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Guayaquil
Guayaquil
Ecuador's principal port, handling its wheat and soymeal imports.
EcuadorSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
EgyptSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Damietta
Damietta
Egyptian port at the Nile delta, handling a large share of the country's wheat and feed grain imports.
EgyptSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 SalvadorSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
FranceSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
FranceSeaport
Crushing / transshipment
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Hannover Feed Hub (Lower Saxony)
Hannover
Distribution point for the Lower Saxony compound feed industry, railed from Brake and Hamburg into Europe’s densest pig and poultry region.
GermanyInland hub
Crushing / transshipment
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
GermanySeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
GuatemalaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
GuatemalaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
HondurasSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
IndiaSeaport
Export
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Indore (Madhya Pradesh)
Indore
Commercial centre of Madhya Pradesh, India's main soybean state, and home of the Soybean Processors Association of India (SOPA). The surrounding Malwa plateau also grows wheat.
IndiaInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Jawaharlal Nehru Port (Nhava Sheva)
Navi Mumbai
India's busiest container port, serving Mumbai. Grain moves in containers: basmati and other rice, and soymeal from the Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra crushers.
IndiaSeaport
Export
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Tanjung Perak (Surabaya)
Surabaya
East Java port importing wheat and soybeans.
IndonesiaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%), Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Tanjung Priok (Jakarta)
Jakarta
Indonesia's busiest port. Indonesia grows no wheat and is one of the world's largest wheat importers.
IndonesiaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%), Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Bandar Imam Khomeini
Bandar Imam Khomeini
Iran's main port for grain imports, at the head of the Gulf.
IranSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Ashdod
Ashdod
Mediterranean port handling a large share of Israel's grain imports.
IsraelSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
ItalyRiver port
Crushing / transshipment
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
ItalySeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
ItalySeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Kashima
Kashima
Japan's principal feed-grain import port, on the Pacific coast of Ibaraki beside a cluster of feed mills.
JapanSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Kobe
Kobe
Kansai port importing wheat and feed grain for western Japan's flour and feed mills.
JapanSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port Klang
Klang
Malaysia's principal port, importing corn, wheat and soymeal.
MalaysiaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%), Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
MexicoSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
MexicoSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
MexicoSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
MexicoSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
MexicoSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
NetherlandsSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
NetherlandsSeaport
Crushing / transshipment
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Vlissingen-Terneuzen (Zeeland)
Vlissingen
Deep-water Scheldt terminals handling oilseeds and meal for the Zeeland crushers, with direct barge access to Ghent and Antwerp.
NetherlandsSeaport
Crushing / transshipment
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Zwolle-Meppel Inland Hub
Zwolle
IJssel-Vecht inland terminals supplying the Overijssel and Gelderland feed compounders, fed by barge from Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
NetherlandsInland hub
Crushing / transshipment
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Corinto (Nicaragua)
Corinto
Nicaragua's largest port, on the Pacific, with a berth set up for grain and fertiliser.
NicaraguaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
NigeriaInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
NorwaySeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Stavanger
Stavanger
South-western Norwegian feed terminal serving the Rogaland livestock cluster, the densest agricultural region in the country.
NorwaySeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Karachi
Karachi
Pakistan's largest port, importing soybeans and, in short crop years, wheat.
PakistanSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Bahia Las Minas (Panama)
Colon
Bay east of Colon on the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal, with a bulk grain terminal.
PanamaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
PanamaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%), Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
ParaguayRiver port
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Callao
Callao
Peru's main port, through which it imports most of its wheat and feed corn.
PeruSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Manila
Manila
The Philippines' principal port, importing wheat and feed grain.
PhilippinesSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%), Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
PortugalSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
PortugalSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
PortugalSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 ArabiaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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 AfricaInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Durban
Durban
Southern Africa's busiest port. South Africa imports much of its wheat and, in most seasons, exports corn.
South AfricaSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Busan
Busan
Korea's largest port, handling grain imports for the south-east of the country.
South KoreaSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Incheon
Incheon
South Korean port on the Yellow Sea, importing wheat and corn for the Seoul region.
South KoreaSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
SpainSeaport
Crushing / transshipment
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
SpainSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
SpainSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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.
SpainInland hub
Crushing / transshipment
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Malmo (Copenhagen Malmo Port)
Malmo
Oresund agribulk terminal serving the Skane milling and feed industry, the most productive arable region in Sweden.
SwedenSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Port of Taichung
Taichung
Taiwan's west-coast port and a main entry point for its imported corn, soybeans and wheat.
TaiwanSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
ThailandSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%), Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 KingdomSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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 KingdomSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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 StatesInland hub
Crushing / transshipment
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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 StatesInland hub
Inland river
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Decatur (Illinois)
Decatur
A major soybean crushing and corn processing centre in the Illinois corn belt.
United StatesInland hub
Crushing / transshipment
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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 StatesInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 StatesInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 StatesRiver port
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 StatesInland hub
Inland river
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 StatesSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
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 StatesRiver port
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%)
Minneapolis
Minneapolis
The principal pricing point for hard red spring wheat and durum, and the upper Mississippi barge head for northern Plains grain.
United StatesInland hub
Inland river
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 StatesInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 StatesRiver port
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 StatesRiver port
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 StatesRiver port
Inland river
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 StatesSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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 StatesSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Toledo
Toledo
Lake Erie grain port handling soft red winter wheat, corn and soybeans from Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
United StatesSeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
UruguayRiver port
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Montevideo
Montevideo
Uruguay's main seaport, handling grain and oilseed exports.
UruguaySeaport
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
VenezuelaSeaport
Import
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
VietnamSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%), Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
Port of Hai Phong
Hai Phong
Northern Vietnam's main port, importing feed grain for the Red River Delta.
VietnamSeaport
Import
Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%), Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)
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.
ZambiaInland hub
Export
Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO)

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