Russian and Ukrainian sugar news, Apr 18, 2018

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RUSSIA

Concert "Pokrovsky" has completed sugar beet sowing in Kuban (Krasnodar region) with total 15.06 thousand ha acreage (last year - 14 thousand hectares). The future harvest will be processed at the sugar factories of the concern in full volume.

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According to the Ministry of Agriculture, as of April 17, 2018, sugar beet was sown in the country at the area of 254.2 thousand hectares or 23.2% of the forecast (in 2017 - 526.5 thousand hectares).

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According to the figures by Williams Brasil dated April 17, 2018, total 3 vessels have been nominated to carry 99500 MT of raw cane sugar in 2018 season from Brazilian seaports to the Black/Baltic seaports with end-receivers in CIS, Georgia and Baltic states. As of today, the volume received and unloaded makes 33500 MT from 1 vessel, based on Sugar.ru data.

UKRAINE

The “Astarta-Kiev” plants have received and confirmed an average of 25 international certificates of ISO 22000, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 series in 2017. As a result of the season, Astarta has increased the share of sugar of the first category in total production up to 86% (71% in last season).

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