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Wheat map: ports and hubs

GrainsMap lists 239 ports and hubs that handle wheat, in 79 countries across Europe, the Black Sea, South America, North America, the Middle East and Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Grades covered: Milling Wheat (Standard), High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum), and Feed Wheat.

Port of AlgiersPort of OranBahia Blanca (Ingeniero White)Gran Rosario (Up-River)Necochea-QuequenPergamino (Buenos Aires core zone)Rio Cuarto (Cordoba)Dalby (Darling Downs, Queensland)Horsham (Wimmera, Victoria)Kwinana Grain TerminalMerredin (WA Wheatbelt)Moree (Northern NSW)Port Adelaide (Outer Harbor)Port KemblaPort LincolnPort of AlbanyPort of BrisbanePort of EsperancePort of GeelongPort of GeraldtonPort of Newcastle (NSW)Port of Portland (Victoria)Wagga Wagga (Riverina)Port of ChattogramPort of Antwerp (ABT)Port of Ghent (North Sea Port)Port of Liege (Meuse)Cascavel (Parana)Passo Fundo (Rio Grande do Sul)Port of ParanaguaPort of Rio GrandeSalvador / Aratu (Bahia)Vitoria / Tubarao (Espirito Santo)Port of BurgasPort of Ruse (Danube)Port of VarnaAlberta (Calgary)Manitoba (Winnipeg)MontrealPrince RupertSaskatchewan (Regina)Thunder BayVancouverPort of San AntonioTalcahuano / San Vicente (Biobio)Guangzhou NanshaPort of DalianPort of QingdaoPort of RizhaoZhengzhou (Henan)Port of BarranquillaPort of BuenaventuraPort of CartagenaPort of Santa MartaPuerto Caldera (Costa Rica)Port of CienfuegosPort of HavanaPort of Santiago de CubaKalundborg Bulk TerminalPort of KogePort of DjiboutiPort of Rio Haina (Dominican Republic)Port of GuayaquilPort of AlexandriaPort of DamiettaPort of Acajutla (El Salvador)Muuga Grain Terminal (Tallinn)Tartu Cereal Hub (South Estonia)Port of NaantaliPort of RaumaChalons-en-Champagne Hub (Marne)Chartres Cereal Hub (Beauce)Creil Malting Barley Hub (Oise)Orleans Cereal Hub (Loiret)Port of Brest (Bretagne)Port of Dunkirk (Nord Cereales)Port of La Pallice (La Rochelle)Port of Marseille-FosPort of Rouen (Sénalia & Simarex)Toulouse Cereal Hub (Occitanie)Port of PotiHannover Feed Hub (Lower Saxony)Leipzig-Halle Cereal HubMagdeburg Elbe HubPort of Brake an der WeserPort of Hamburg (ADM & Rethe Silos)Port of Mannheim (Rhine Grain Terminal)Port of Rostock (Grossilo)Regensburg Danube HubPort of TemaPuerto Quetzal (Guatemala)Santo Tomas de Castilla (Guatemala)Puerto Cortes (Honduras)Deendayal Port (Kandla)Indore (Madhya Pradesh)Khanna (Punjab)Mundra Port (Gujarat)Tanjung Perak (Surabaya)Tanjung Priok (Jakarta)Bandar Imam KhomeiniPort of Umm QasrPort of AshdodBologna Grain Exchange HubCremona Po Valley Feed HubFoggia Durum Hub (Tavoliere)Port of Bari (Puglia)Port of Chioggia (Venice Lagoon)Port of Ravenna (Docks Cereali)Vercelli Rice Hub (Piedmont)Port of AbidjanPort of Kingston (Jamaica)Port of KashimaPort of KobePort of AqabaKostanay (Northern Kazakhstan)Port of Aktau (Caspian)Eldoret (North Rift)Port of MombasaFreeport of RigaJelgava Cereal Hub (Zemgale)Port of LiepajaVentspils Grain TerminalKaunas Cereal Hub (Nemunas)Port of Klaipeda (KLASCO & Bega)Port KlangCiudad Obregon (Yaqui Valley, Sonora)Port of AltamiraPort of CoatzacoalcosPort of Guaymas (Sonora)Port of Lazaro CardenasPort of Manzanillo (Colima)Port of Progreso (Yucatan)Port of Topolobampo (Sinaloa)Port of TuxpanPort of VeracruzPort of Giurgiulesti (Danube)Port of CasablancaPort of AmsterdamZwolle-Meppel Inland HubPort of TaurangaPort of Corinto (Nicaragua)Lagos (Apapa)Port of OsloPort of StavangerPort of KarachiBahia Las Minas (Panama)Cristobal (Colon, Panama)Villeta (Paraguay River)Port of CallaoPort of ManilaLublin Cereal Hub (Eastern Poland)Port of Gdańsk & Gdynia (BTZ)Port of Gdynia (BTZ)Poznan Cereal Hub (Wielkopolska)Szczecin-Swinoujscie (Oder)Beja Cereal & Rice Hub (Alentejo)Coimbra Cereal & Rice Hub (Baixo Mondego)Port of Aveiro (Gafanha da Nazaré)Port of Leixões (Porto)Port of Lisbon (Trafaria & Beato)Port of SetúbalPort of Constanta (Comvex & Chimpex)Port of Galati (Danube)Astrakhan (Volga delta, Caspian)Barnaul (Altai Krai)Krasnodar (Kuban)Novosibirsk (Western Siberia)Port Kavkaz (Kerch Strait)Port of AzovPort of Makhachkala (Caspian)Port of NovorossiyskPort of Rostov-on-DonPort of TamanPort of TuapsePort of Yeysk (Azov Sea)Saratov (Volga)St Petersburg (Baltic)StavropolVolgograd (Lower Volga)Voronezh (Central Black Earth)Jeddah Islamic PortKing Abdulaziz Port (Dammam)Port of DakarPort of DurbanPort of BusanPort of IncheonPort of Barcelona (Bunge & Cargill)Port of Bilbao (Santurtzi)Port of Santander (Raos)Port of Seville (Guadalquivir Silos)Port of TarragonaValladolid Cereal Hub (Castilla y León)Zaragoza Inland Grain Hub (PLAZA)Port of ColomboPort SudanPort of Malmo (Copenhagen Malmo Port)Port of Norrkoping (Braviken)Vasteras Malaren HubPort of TaichungPort of Dar es SalaamPort of Laem ChabangPort of Rades (Tunis)Port of SamsunPort of Izmail (Danube)Port of MykolaivPort of Odesa & ChornomorskPort of PivdennyiPort of Reni (Danube)Cambridge Cereal Hub (East Anglia)Hull & Immingham (Humber)Port of BelfastPort of Ipswich Grain TerminalPort of Tilbury Grain TerminalAmarillo (Texas Panhandle)ChicagoDuluth-SuperiorEnid (Oklahoma)Fargo (Red River Valley)Great Falls (Montana Golden Triangle)Hutchinson (Kansas)Kalama / Longview (Columbia River)Kansas CityLower Mississippi / New OrleansMinneapolisPort of Corpus ChristiPort of Lewiston (Snake River)Port of Vancouver USA (Columbia River)Portland (Columbia River)Spokane (Inland Northwest)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 (239)

HubCountryTypeGrades 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.
AlgeriaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
Port of Oran
Oran
Western Algerian port and a major entry point for the country's wheat imports.
AlgeriaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Necochea-Quequen
Quequen
Deep-water port at Necochea-Quequen, exporting wheat and barley from south-eastern Buenos Aires province.
ArgentinaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
AustraliaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Horsham (Wimmera, Victoria)
Horsham
Centre of the Wimmera, Victoria's main grain and pulse district. Wheat, barley and canola move by rail to Geelong, Portland and Melbourne.
AustraliaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Kwinana Grain Terminal
Kwinana
Australia's largest grain export terminal, south of Perth, shipping Western Australian wheat, barley and canola to Asia and the Middle East.
AustraliaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Merredin (WA Wheatbelt)
Merredin
CBH Group's largest inland receival point in Western Australia, in the central Wheatbelt. Grain moves by rail to the Kwinana export terminal.
AustraliaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
AustraliaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
Port Adelaide (Outer Harbor)
Adelaide
South Australia's principal grain export port, at Outer Harbor.
AustraliaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port Kembla
Wollongong
New South Wales grain export terminal south of Sydney.
AustraliaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port Lincoln
Port Lincoln
Grain export port for the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
AustraliaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Albany
Albany
Western Australian grain port serving the southern wheatbelt.
AustraliaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Brisbane
Brisbane
Queensland's principal grain export port.
AustraliaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Esperance
Esperance
Western Australian grain port serving the south-eastern wheatbelt.
AustraliaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Geelong
Geelong
Victorian grain export port on Corio Bay.
AustraliaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Geraldton
Geraldton
Western Australian grain port serving the northern wheatbelt.
AustraliaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Newcastle (NSW)
Newcastle
New South Wales grain export port serving the northern cropping regions.
AustraliaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
Port of Portland (Victoria)
Portland
Deep-water port in south-west Victoria, exporting grain from the western Victorian cropping districts.
AustraliaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Wagga Wagga (Riverina)
Wagga Wagga
Regional centre of the Riverina, one of the main wheat, barley and canola districts of New South Wales, with GrainCorp storage and rail to Port Kembla.
AustraliaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Chattogram
Chattogram
Bangladesh's main seaport and the entry point for most of its imported wheat.
BangladeshSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Antwerp (ABT)
Antwerp
Major European transshipment and fertilizer node. Connects French wheat and Benelux malting barley with deep-sea and Rhine trade lanes.
BelgiumSeaport
Crushing / transshipment
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Feed Wheat
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
Feed Wheat, Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
BulgariaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
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.
BulgariaRiver port
Inland river
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
BulgariaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Alberta (Calgary)
Calgary
Western prairie province, strong in barley and canola and closest to the Pacific ports. Prices here are Statistics Canada provincial farm-gate averages, not quotations at Calgary.
CanadaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Montreal
Montreal
St. Lawrence export port for eastern Canadian grain and for prairie grain transshipped from Great Lakes lakers into ocean vessels.
CanadaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Prince Rupert
Prince Rupert
Northern British Columbia export terminal, on a shorter sailing to Asia than Vancouver.
CanadaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay
Canada's Great Lakes grain port at the head of Lake Superior, shipping prairie wheat, durum and canola east through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
CanadaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
Vancouver
Vancouver
Canada's largest grain export port and the Pacific gateway for prairie wheat, durum, canola and barley bound for Asia.
CanadaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
Port of San Antonio
San Antonio
Chile's busiest port and a principal entry point for its wheat and corn imports.
ChileSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Rizhao
Rizhao
Shandong port with large soybean crushing capacity beside its terminals.
ChinaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
ChinaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Barranquilla
Barranquilla
Caribbean port through which Colombia, a large importer of feed corn, receives much of its grain.
ColombiaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Buenaventura
Buenaventura
Colombia's main Pacific port and an entry point for imported wheat and corn.
ColombiaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
CubaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
CubaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Kalundborg Bulk Terminal
Kalundborg
One of Denmark’s premier grain export hubs. An 11.6 m berth with load rates to 900 MT/hour, plus drying, sieving and high-capacity bagging.
DenmarkSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Koge
Koge
Zealand export port south of Copenhagen shipping cereals and milling wheat, with Valsemollen’s flour mill on the quay.
DenmarkSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Port of Djibouti
Djibouti
Red Sea port and the principal gateway for grain bound for landlocked Ethiopia.
DjiboutiSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Guayaquil
Guayaquil
Ecuador's principal port, handling its wheat and soymeal imports.
EcuadorSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Muuga Grain Terminal (Tallinn)
Tallinn / Muuga
The largest grain storage and loading facility in the region: 300,000 t across 48 silos, with 17.3 m quays taking vessels up to 120,000 DWT.
EstoniaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Tartu Cereal Hub (South Estonia)
Tartu
Southern Estonian origination around the Emajogi basin, railing wheat and oats north to Muuga for export.
EstoniaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Naantali
Naantali
One of Finland’s largest grain handling ports and a major dry bulk centre, with silos and agri-bulk storage alongside the fertiliser terminals.
FinlandSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Rauma
Rauma
West-coast port at the heart of Finland’s oat belt, with Suomen Viljava storage feeding the Rauma oat mill and the export trade.
FinlandSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Chalons-en-Champagne Hub (Marne)
Chalons-en-Champagne
Champagne chalk-country origination. High-yielding soft wheat and malting barley railed to Rouen, or trucked north to the Belgian and German maltings.
FranceInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
FranceInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Creil Malting Barley Hub (Oise)
Creil
Oise valley malting barley origination, the reference point for the French malting basis. Rail-connected to Rouen, Dunkirk and the Belgian maltings.
FranceInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
FranceInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Feed Wheat
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.
FranceSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
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.
FranceSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
Port of Rouen (Sénalia & Simarex)
Rouen
Western Europe's undisputed #1 grain export port. Located on the River Seine in the heart of the Paris Basin grain belt, exporting millions of tons of wheat and barley each season.
FranceRiver port
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
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.
FranceInland hub
Export
Durum Wheat (Amber Durum), Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Poti
Poti
Georgia's principal Black Sea port and the main entry point for its wheat imports.
GeorgiaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Feed Wheat
Leipzig-Halle Cereal Hub
Leipzig
Central German origination on the Leipzig lowland, railing wheat, rye and rapeseed north to Rostock and Hamburg for export.
GermanyInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Magdeburg Elbe Hub
Magdeburg
Elbe river port for the Saxony-Anhalt Boerde, some of Germany’s richest loess soils. Barges run down the Elbe to Hamburg, unit trains to Rostock.
GermanyRiver port
Inland river
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Feed Wheat
Port of Hamburg (ADM & Rethe Silos)
Hamburg
Major German export and processing hub on the Elbe. Famed for high-protein German A-wheat and extensive rapeseed/feed processing facilities.
GermanyRiver port
Export
High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat), Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Mannheim (Rhine Grain Terminal)
Mannheim
Crucial Rhine river agribulk hub in southwestern Germany. Funnels local malting barley, wheat, and oilseeds downriver to Rotterdam and Antwerp via 2,000 MT barges.
GermanyInland hub
Inland river
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Rostock (Grossilo)
Rostock
Baltic deep-sea export port for Mecklenburg and eastern German crops, loading wheat, barley and rapeseed on a 13 m draft.
GermanySeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Regensburg Danube Hub
Regensburg
Upper Danube transshipment point for Bavarian grain, and the western end of the Danube corridor that runs down to Constanta.
GermanyRiver port
Inland river
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Tema
Tema
Ghana's principal port and its entry point for imported wheat.
GhanaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Khanna (Punjab)
Khanna
Khanna's grain mandi, in Ludhiana district, is widely described as Asia's largest grain market. In the April-May wheat procurement and the autumn paddy season, FCI and the Punjab state agencies buy here for India's central pool.
IndiaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
IndiaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Tanjung Perak (Surabaya)
Surabaya
East Java port importing wheat and soybeans.
IndonesiaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Tanjung Priok (Jakarta)
Jakarta
Indonesia's busiest port. Indonesia grows no wheat and is one of the world's largest wheat importers.
IndonesiaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Bandar Imam Khomeini
Bandar Imam Khomeini
Iran's main port for grain imports, at the head of the Gulf.
IranSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Umm Qasr
Umm Qasr
Iraq's principal deep-water port and its main entry point for imported wheat.
IraqSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Ashdod
Ashdod
Mediterranean port handling a large share of Israel's grain imports.
IsraelSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
ItalyInland hub
Crushing / transshipment
Durum Wheat (Amber Durum), Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Feed Wheat
Foggia Durum Hub (Tavoliere)
Foggia
The granary of Italy. The Tavoliere delle Puglie is the country’s largest plain and its dominant durum origination, feeding the Bari and Barletta mills.
ItalyInland hub
Export
Durum Wheat (Amber Durum), Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
ItalySeaport
Import
Durum Wheat (Amber Durum), Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Feed Wheat
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
Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
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.
ItalyInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Abidjan
Abidjan
One of the largest ports in West Africa, importing wheat for the region.
Côte d’IvoireSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
JamaicaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Kobe
Kobe
Kansai port importing wheat and feed grain for western Japan's flour and feed mills.
JapanSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Aqaba
Aqaba
Jordan's only seaport, on the Red Sea, through which it imports almost all its wheat and barley.
JordanSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Kostanay (Northern Kazakhstan)
Kostanay
Centre of northern Kazakhstan's spring wheat belt, one of the largest wheat-growing regions in Central Asia.
KazakhstanInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat)
Port of Aktau (Caspian)
Aktau
Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea port, shipping wheat to Iran, Azerbaijan and the Caucasus.
KazakhstanSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
KenyaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Mombasa
Mombasa
East Africa's largest port, importing wheat and corn for Kenya and the inland countries it serves.
KenyaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Freeport of Riga
Riga
Latvia’s largest port and its main grain outlet, where agricultural cargo runs about a third of throughput and locally grown wheat dominates.
LatviaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Jelgava Cereal Hub (Zemgale)
Jelgava
The Zemgale plain, Latvia’s breadbasket. Flat, fertile and rail-connected to Riga and Ventspils for Baltic export.
LatviaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Liepaja
Liepaja
Ice-free Courland port where bulk cargo is dominated by grain, serving the western Latvian arable belt.
LatviaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Ventspils Grain Terminal
Ventspils
Dedicated grain terminal with 100,000 t of simultaneous storage and over 2 Mt a year of throughput, also handling rapeseed, meal and soybeans.
LatviaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Kaunas Cereal Hub (Nemunas)
Kaunas
Central Lithuanian origination in the Nemunas basin, railing wheat and rapeseed the short distance west to Klaipeda.
LithuaniaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Port of Klaipeda (KLASCO & Bega)
Klaipeda
Ice-free Baltic export terminal and the volume outlet for Lithuanian and wider Baltic grain, with KLASCO and Bega handling wheat and rapeseed.
LithuaniaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Port Klang
Klang
Malaysia's principal port, importing corn, wheat and soymeal.
MalaysiaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Ciudad Obregon (Yaqui Valley, Sonora)
Ciudad Obregon
Centre of the irrigated Yaqui Valley. Sonora grows close to half of Mexico's wheat, with durum the main crop; this is also where CIMMYT developed the semi-dwarf wheats of the Green Revolution.
MexicoInland hub
Export
Durum Wheat (Amber Durum), Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Coatzacoalcos
Coatzacoalcos
Southern Gulf port on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, receiving bulk maize and wheat for south-east Mexico.
MexicoSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Guaymas (Sonora)
Guaymas
Sonora's port on the Gulf of California, with a 72-silo grain terminal of about 68,000 t. Ships the durum and bread wheat grown in the Yaqui and Mayo valleys.
MexicoSeaport
Export
Durum Wheat (Amber Durum), Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
MexicoSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Tuxpan
Tuxpan
Northern Veracruz port, the closest Gulf port to Mexico City, receiving bulk maize and wheat.
MexicoSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Giurgiulesti (Danube)
Giurgiulesti
Moldova's only port, on the Danube where it meets the Romanian and Ukrainian borders, loading grain for export.
MoldovaRiver port
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Casablanca
Casablanca
Morocco's largest port and its main entry point for wheat, corn and barley imports.
MoroccoSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Feed Wheat
Port of Tauranga
Tauranga
New Zealand's largest port by volume. New Zealand imports much of its milling wheat and feed grain.
New ZealandSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Corinto (Nicaragua)
Corinto
Nicaragua's largest port, on the Pacific, with a berth set up for grain and fertiliser.
NicaraguaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Lagos (Apapa)
Lagos
Nigeria's main port. Nigeria grows little wheat and is one of Africa's largest wheat importers.
NigeriaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Feed Wheat
Port of Stavanger
Stavanger
South-western Norwegian feed terminal serving the Rogaland livestock cluster, the densest agricultural region in the country.
NorwaySeaport
Import
Feed Wheat
Port of Karachi
Karachi
Pakistan's largest port, importing soybeans and, in short crop years, wheat.
PakistanSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Bahia Las Minas (Panama)
Colon
Bay east of Colon on the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal, with a bulk grain terminal.
PanamaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Callao
Callao
Peru's main port, through which it imports most of its wheat and feed corn.
PeruSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Manila
Manila
The Philippines' principal port, importing wheat and feed grain.
PhilippinesSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Lublin Cereal Hub (Eastern Poland)
Lublin
Eastern Polish origination on the Lublin upland, a rye and milling wheat belt that rails north to Gdynia for Baltic export.
PolandInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Gdańsk & Gdynia (BTZ)
Gdańsk / Gdynia
Poland's prime Baltic agribulk terminal complex. Connecting Polish grain rail corridors with Baltic export routes.
PolandSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
PolandSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Poznan Cereal Hub (Wielkopolska)
Poznan
Greater Poland origination, the country’s most intensive arable and pig region. Unit trains run north to Gdynia and west to Szczecin.
PolandInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
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.
PolandSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
PortugalInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
PortugalInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard), High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat)
Port of Setúbal
Setúbal
Sado River port catering to Alentejo agro-industrial processors, animal feed compounding, and grain warehousing.
PortugalSeaport
Import
Feed Wheat
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.
RomaniaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
RomaniaRiver port
Inland river
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
RussiaRiver port
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Barnaul (Altai Krai)
Barnaul
Capital of Altai Krai, Siberia's largest grain region, known for hard spring wheat and buckwheat.
RussiaInland hub
Export
High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat), Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
RussiaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Novosibirsk (Western Siberia)
Novosibirsk
Rail hub of western Siberia on the Trans-Siberian, gathering spring wheat and barley from Siberian farms for the domestic market and rail exports towards China and Central Asia.
RussiaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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.
RussiaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Azov
Azov
Russian port at the mouth of the Don on the Sea of Azov, handling grain in shallow-draft coasters.
RussiaRiver port
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Port of Makhachkala (Caspian)
Makhachkala
Dagestan's ice-free Caspian port, shipping grain to Iran; a larger grain terminal is planned.
RussiaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Novorossiysk
Novorossiysk
Russia's largest Black Sea port and the main outlet for its wheat exports.
RussiaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Port of Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don
Russian river port on the Don, loading shallow-draft vessels out across the Sea of Azov.
RussiaRiver port
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Port of Taman
Taman
Russian deep-water grain terminal on the Taman peninsula, facing the Kerch Strait.
RussiaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Port of Tuapse
Tuapse
Russian Black Sea port south of Novorossiysk with a dedicated grain terminal.
RussiaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Port of Yeysk (Azov Sea)
Yeysk
Azov Sea port in Krasnodar Krai, loading wheat and barley from the Kuban and Rostov farms into shallow river-sea ships.
RussiaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Saratov (Volga)
Saratov
Volga region of winter wheat, durum and sunflower, part of the south-western belt that grows over half of Russia's wheat.
RussiaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
St Petersburg (Baltic)
St Petersburg
Russia's Baltic gateway. Terminals that handled coal and fertiliser have started loading wheat, giving a northern export route that avoids the Black Sea.
RussiaSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Stavropol
Stavropol
Centre of Stavropol Krai, one of Russia's three largest wheat regions, shipping by rail to Novorossiysk and the Caspian.
RussiaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Volgograd (Lower Volga)
Volgograd
Lower Volga river port at the head of the Volga-Don canal, linking the Volga wheat lands to both the Azov and Caspian export routes.
RussiaRiver port
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
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.
RussiaInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
King Abdulaziz Port (Dammam)
Dammam
Saudi Arabia's Gulf port, receiving grain for the kingdom's eastern provinces.
Saudi ArabiaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Dakar
Dakar
Senegal's main port, at the western tip of Africa, through which it imports wheat.
SenegalSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Busan
Busan
Korea's largest port, handling grain imports for the south-east of the country.
South KoreaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Incheon
Incheon
South Korean port on the Yellow Sea, importing wheat and corn for the Seoul region.
South KoreaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
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.
SpainRiver port
Export
Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
Port of Tarragona
Tarragona
Spain's largest volume agribulk import port (>5M tonnes/year). Direct pipeline into the Ebro valley feed industry.
SpainSeaport
Import
Feed Wheat
Valladolid Cereal Hub (Castilla y León)
Valladolid
The heart of Spain’s one genuine cereal surplus region. Cooperative silos across the Duero basin originate domestic wheat and barley that move north to the Cantabrian ports and east to the Ebro feed mills.
SpainInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
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
Feed Wheat
Port of Colombo
Colombo
Sri Lanka's main port, through which it imports nearly all of its wheat.
Sri LankaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port Sudan
Port Sudan
Sudan's Red Sea port and the main entry point for its wheat imports.
SudanSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Norrkoping (Braviken)
Norrkoping
Ostergotland’s Baltic outlet on Braviken bay, exporting grain and oats from the central Swedish plain.
SwedenSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Vasteras Malaren Hub
Vasteras
Lake Malaren inland port for the Malardalen grain belt, shipping through the Sodertalje lock to the Baltic.
SwedenRiver port
Inland river
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Taichung
Taichung
Taiwan's west-coast port and a main entry point for its imported corn, soybeans and wheat.
TaiwanSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania's principal port, handling wheat imports for the country and its landlocked neighbours.
TanzaniaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Rades (Tunis)
Rades
Tunisia's principal port, near Tunis, through which it imports soft and durum wheat.
TunisiaSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
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.
TürkiyeSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Izmail (Danube)
Izmail
Ukrainian Danube port that became a principal grain export route when the Black Sea ports were blockaded in 2022.
UkraineRiver port
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
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.
UkraineRiver port
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Port of Odesa & Chornomorsk
Odesa
Historic Ukrainian deep-water grain gateway handling high-capacity export flows into the Mediterranean and worldwide.
UkraineSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Port of Pivdennyi
Pivdennyi
Deep-water Ukrainian port east of Odesa, one of the three ports of the Greater Odesa grain export corridor.
UkraineSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
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.
UkraineRiver port
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard), Feed Wheat
Cambridge Cereal Hub (East Anglia)
Cambridge
East Anglian origination across the fens and chalk, the highest-yielding wheat land in Britain, trucked to Ipswich and Tilbury for export.
United KingdomInland hub
Export
Feed Wheat, Milling Wheat (Standard)
Hull & Immingham (Humber)
Hull / Immingham
East coast grain complex exporting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire wheat and barley, and importing animal feed raw materials for the northern mills.
United KingdomSeaport
Export
Feed Wheat, Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Feed Wheat
Port of Ipswich Grain Terminal
Ipswich
The UK’s leading grain export port, handling over 2 Mt a year out of the East Anglian arable belt.
United KingdomSeaport
Export
Feed Wheat, Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Feed Wheat, Milling Wheat (Standard)
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 StatesInland hub
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Duluth-Superior
Duluth
The westernmost port on the Great Lakes, at the head of Lake Superior. Ships hard red spring wheat and durum from the northern Plains out through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
United StatesSeaport
Export
High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum), Milling Wheat (Standard)
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 StatesInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat)
Great Falls (Montana Golden Triangle)
Great Falls
Centre of Montana's Golden Triangle, a dryland district of hard red spring and winter wheat, durum and malting barley. Wheat goes by rail to the Pacific Northwest export terminals.
United StatesInland hub
Export
High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat), Milling Wheat (Standard), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat), Durum Wheat (Amber Durum)
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 StatesSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Lewiston (Snake River)
Lewiston (ID)
The furthest-inland port on the Columbia-Snake river system, about 465 river miles from the Pacific. Wheat and barley from Idaho and eastern Washington go down-river by barge to the Columbia export terminals.
United StatesRiver port
Inland river
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard), High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard), High Protein Wheat (Quality / A-Wheat)
Spokane (Inland Northwest)
Spokane
Trading centre of the Palouse and eastern Washington, the main US source of soft white wheat for Asian noodle and cake flours. Wheat goes by barge from the Snake River and by rail to the Columbia River export terminals.
United StatesInland hub
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Toledo
Toledo
Lake Erie grain port handling soft red winter wheat, corn and soybeans from Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
United StatesSeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Montevideo
Montevideo
Uruguay's main seaport, handling grain and oilseed exports.
UruguaySeaport
Export
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)
Port of Hai Phong
Hai Phong
Northern Vietnam's main port, importing feed grain for the Red River Delta.
VietnamSeaport
Import
Milling Wheat (Standard)
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
Milling Wheat (Standard)

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