EU: Malt export bookings for July 2005-March 2006 period
From July 2005 till end March 2006 EU malt exporters booked 6 Mill. tonnes of export certificates, 88 000 tonnes less than a year ago. Analysts believe that if export shipments continued at a similar pace during the final three months of the crop year, total exports would arrive at 2.10 to 2.15 Mill. tonnes, about 100 000 tonnes below the figure of 2004/05. Exports estimates early in the season had been as low as 1. 8 Mill. tonnes.