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1984
A new grain terminal is under construction at Lisbon-Trafaria, located
at the mouth of the River Tagus in
Portugal. The terminal, being constructed for Empresa Publica de
Abastecimento de Cereals (EPAC),
is designed for a yearly throughput
capacity of 4.5 million tonnes.
The terminal will handle oceangoing vessels of up to 120,000 dead
weight tonnes. Unloading will be by
means of three pneumatic unloaders
with a capacity of 1,000 tph each.
Transshipment facilities will be incorporated for loading sea vessels
of up to 40,000 tonnes and barges
and coasters of up to 8,000 tonnes
at 2,000 tph.
The total silo storage capacity
will be 195,000 tonnes. The system will be computerized using
programmable controllers. It is expected that the terminal will be operational in August 1985.
Societe d' Ingenieurs et de Techniciens (SIT), Les Chesnay, France,
and SATEC Development have
signed a contract of engineering
services with the government of
Mauritius to provide design, supervision of construction and initial assistance in operating of a grain processing complex to be built in the
port area of Port Louis, Mauritius.
The project includes a berth
for 15,000-tonne grain vessels; bulk wheat unloading and
bagged rice unloading equipment;
20,000-tonne-capacity storage silo;
450-tonne-per-day milling plant
with possible expansion to 575
tonnes per day, as well as offices
and ancillary facilities.
Investments amount to approximately 200 million French francs
(about $24.3 million). Financing has
been made available from the African Development Bank and the Arab
Fund for Economic Development.

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Fifteen students from nine nations received international certificates from the first Swiss
School of Milling short course in 1993. Photo courtesy the Swiss School of Milling.

1994
Fifteen students from nine nations were awarded international
certificates as milling engineers by
the Swiss School of Milling in December 1993. The event marked the
end of a new five-month intensive
short course offered by the school.
The emphasis of the new short
international course is on milling
technology, milling engineering,
product control and quality assurance. According to Dr. Gerold
Haberli, director of the school, the
short course was a great success.
The short course is reserved
for graduates of colleges and institutes of engineering. Students
must be at least 23 years old and
have a basic knowledge of chemistry, mathematics, physics and
plant organization. Entrants must
have several months of practical
experience in milling.

2004
A World Trade Organization
(WTO) dispute settlement panel has exonerated the Canadian
Wheat Board (CWB) from American claims of unfair trade practices. In a ruling released in February on a challenge launched by the
U.S. government in March 2003,
the WTO panel affirms the CWB
conducts its business in compli-

ance with international trade laws.
"This is a major victory for western Canadian farmers," said Ken
Ritter, chair of the board of directors of CWB. "The Americans took
their case to the most important
court of international trade and the
panel's ruling demonstrates what
we have known all along - that
the complaints leveled against the
CWB are just politically motivated
rhetoric. We are fair traders, with
full legal rights to exist and operate
as we currently do."
Molinos Rio de la Plata SA will
invest $80 million to expand a soybean crushing plant, build grain
elevators and a port facility in the
Argentine province of Santa Fe.
The expansion will raise the
plants crushing capacity to 17,500
tonnes per day compared with the
current 5,500 tonnes, Molinos,
which is owned by the Perez Companc family, also plans to use the
port facilities to ship soybeans, soy
meal and soy oil.
The plant and port facility are
scheduled to be operational by the
start of March 2005 soybean harvest. The project in San Lorenzo,
in the heart of Argentina's soybean production area, will make
the plant the largest in the region,
surpassing Louis Dreyfus & Co.'s
12,000-tonne-per-day soy processing plant.

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