15,500mt of milling wheat bound for Morocco loaded at Gleadell’s Immingham facility, takes the company’s post-harvest export tonnage to close to 400,000mt
"The MV Ros shipment (pictured here loading at Immingham and unloading in Morocco) is a good example of the reasons behind our continuing export success," explains David Sheppard, managing director of Gleadell Agriculture. "The business was done in partnership with our joint shareholders Union InVivo, who identified a market for milling wheat at a particular specification, and we were able to fulfill it with wheat from farms in Lincolnshire and surrounding regions."
"This marketing success has been repeated round the country with shipments out of Immingham, Grimsby, Kings Lynn, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Ipswich, Tilbury, Chatham, Dover, Southampton and Avonmouth to give our farmer customers good access to export markets. So far this season we have loaded ships ranging from 2,500mt at the smaller ports to three consecutive 25,000mt boats out of Immingham in November and December.
"The total has been made up of feed wheat, feed barley, milling wheat, UKP export bread wheat, human consumption beans, feed beans, oilseed rape - and malting barley out of our new facility at Southampton.
"Prospects for exports in the coming months are good and we are poised to keep up the export impetus well into the spring," adds Mr Sheppard.