86 632
Fashion Jobs
MACY'S
Retail Fulfillment Associate, University Park Mall - Part Time
Permanent · MISHAWAKA
MACY'S
Asset Protection Captain, Interstate - Full Time
Permanent · RAMSEY
MACY'S
Retail Fulfillment Associate, Ventura Pacific View - Part Time
Permanent · VENTURA
MACY'S
Asset Protection Detective, South Beach - Full Time
Permanent · MIAMI BEACH
MACY'S
Asset Protection Security Guard, Garden State Park - Full Time
Permanent · CHERRY HILL
MACY'S
Retail Fulfillment Associate, White Oaks - Part Time
Permanent · SPRINGFIELD
MACY'S
Retail Fulfillment Associate, Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills - Part Time
Permanent · TARENTUM
MACY'S
Asset Protection Captain, Orland Square - Full Time
Permanent · ORLAND PARK
MACY'S
Asset Protection Security Guard, Queens Center - Part Time
Permanent · NEW YORK
MACY'S
Retail Fulfillment Associate, Village at Fairview - Part Time
Permanent · FAIRVIEW
MACY'S
Asset Protection Detective, Marley Station - Part Time
Permanent · GLEN BURNIE
MACY'S
Asset Protection Security Guard, Broadcasting Square - Part Time
Permanent · WYOMISSING
MACY'S
Asset Protection Security Guard, Winter Garden Village - Part Time
Permanent · WINTER GARDEN
MACY'S
Manager, Asset Protection
Permanent · SPRINGFIELD
MACY'S
Asset Protection Security Guard, Centerton Square - Part Time
Permanent · MOUNT LAUREL TOWNSHIP
MACY'S
Retail Fulfillment Associate, Westland - Part Time
Permanent · HIALEAH
MACY'S
Asset Protection Security Guard, Bloomingdale Court - Part Time
Permanent · BLOOMINGDALE
MACY'S
Retail Fulfillment Associate, Cumberland Mall - Full Time
Permanent · ATLANTA
MACY'S
Asset Protection Security Guard, Broadcasting Square - Full Time
Permanent · WYOMISSING
MACY'S
Retail Fulfillment Associate, Riverpark - Part Time
Permanent · FRESNO
MACY'S
Retail Fulfillment Associate, Shoppes at Buckland Hills - Part Time
Permanent · MANCHESTER
MACY'S
Retail Fulfillment Associate, Empire - Part Time
Permanent · SIOUX FALLS
By
Reuters
Published
May 28, 2009
Download
Download the article
Print
Text size

Egypt rejects Greek cotton shipment at Alexandria

By
Reuters
Published
May 28, 2009

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's agricultural quarantine authority said on Monday 25 May it had rejected a shipment of 740 tonnes of ginned Greek cotton at Alexandria port because it contained cotton seeds.



"The shipment was rejected because we found intact cotton seeds in it and we don't want those to mix with Egyptian cotton seed varieties in order to safeguard their quality," Ali Soliman, head of the Central Administration for Agricultural Quarantine, told Reuters.

Ginned cotton is cotton that has been processed to remove cotton seeds.

The shipment was imported by textile company Arab Polvara, and the company has been given the choice of exporting the shipment to another country or destroying it, according to Soliman.

Egypt was forecast to have a 17 percent drop in its cotton production in the 2009/10 season, which starts in August, as farmers turn to more lucrative crops such as rice and corn, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service.

Its exports for 2008/09 were expected to drop to 100,000 bales, from 619,000 bales the previous year as a result of the global financial crisis and the recession affecting the textile industry, the report said. A bale weighs 480 lb (218 kg).

The report forecast Egyptian cotton imports during the 2008/09 season to increase 8 percent to 420,000 bales, with 52 percent of total cotton imports coming from Greece.

Egypt imports around 60 percent of its total cotton requirements, or around 560,000 bales, mainly from Greece and Sudan due to their attractive prices compared to highly priced local cotton.

© Thomson Reuters 2024 All rights reserved.