Durum wheat: Canada exports more but Italy imports less

Canadian durum wheat exports are going very well this season. To date, they have reached one million tonnes, which is 43% more than last year. Two-thirds of the volume was shipped from Vancouver and the rest from Thunder Bay. Canada has benefited from the return to “normal” traffic levels through the Panama Canal. In November and December, three Panamax-sized vessels are expected to be shipped from Vancouver through the Panama Canal to the port of Bari in southern Italy. There was also one Panamax of Canadian durum bound for Algeria that was shipped from Vancouver (via the Panama Canal) in the first week of November, according to some traders. Italy and Algeria have also been the destinations for the 144,600 t of durum wheat that Turkey has exported since the beginning of October (118,400 t to Algeria and the rest mainly to Italy). Between the start of the campaign in July and last October, Italy imported less from third countries than in the same period last year, despite the ...