CAIRO- Egypt's state grains buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), received a lowest offer of $724.04 a tonne c&f for 30,000 tonnes of soyoil in an international purchase tender for vegetable oils, traders said.
GASC also received multiple offers for sunflower oil at the lowest price of $737.00 c&f per tonne, the traders said.
The buyer is seeking the vegetable oils for arrival May 1-20. No purchase has yet been made but a decision is expected later on Wednesday.
Traders gave the following breakdown of prices offered in dollars per tonne:
* Louis Dreyfus: 30,000 tonnes of soyoil at $724.04 c&f
* Hakan: 30,000 tonnes of sunflower oil at $737.00 and/or 30,000 tonnes of soyoil at $727.00 c&f
* ADM: 10,000 tonnes of sunflower oil at $743.00 and/or $738.00 c&f
* ADM: 25,000 tonnes of soyoil at $737.00 and 5,000 tonnes of sunflower oil at $741.00 c&f
* Glencore: 30,000 tonnes of sunflower oil at $738.00 c&f
* Aston: 10,500 tonnes or 16,000 tonnes of sunflower oil at $737.00 and/or 30,000 tonnes of soyoil at $742.00 c&f
* Tradefield: 11,000 tonnes of sunflower oil at $745.00 c&f
(Reporting by Nadine Awadalla in Cairo and Michael Hogan in Hamburg; Editing by Jan Harvey and David Evans) ((Nadine.Awadalla@thomsonreuters.com;))
