Route vs market
Why a route page is not a country page
Buyers do not search for “Russia–Turkey grain” when they have a
mill to fill. They search for a named discharge, a protein, and an
Incoterm:
CIF Mersin milling wheat 12.5%,
GASC 12.5% FOB or CIF Damietta,
Caspian Sea wheat from Astrakhan,
or
FOB Novorossiysk when they
already have ocean freight. Country overviews stay on
Markets. These four pages are the
commercial landings for that query.
A route page answers operational questions a market page should
not dilute: what the named Incoterm includes, which sister ports
are realistic, how long the sea leg typically takes, which
documents travel with the cargo, bulk versus bagged lot sizes, and
how escrow releases against the bill of lading. Grade stays
narrow. On the Turkey corridor the workhorse is milling wheat
12.5% protein under GOST 9353-2016. On Egypt it is the same 12.5%
specification, written for GASC-oriented and private mill
programmes. Caspian and FOB pages cover wheat first, with barley
and corn available on the same water.
Load geography is shared. Grain leaves Novorossiysk, Tuapse or
Taman on the Black Sea, or Azov and Rostov-on-Don when draft and
lot size fit the Azov basin. Discharge is what changes: Mersin and
Marmara for Turkish mills, Damietta and Alexandria for Egyptian
silos, Iranian Caspian terminals from Astrakhan, or Bandar Abbas
when the buyer needs a deep-sea vessel. If you want the full
chain — vessels, packing, NOR and demurrage — start at
logistics, then open the corridor that
matches your contract.
Quotes go out within 24 hours from
or
+972 55-507-1227. Send grade,
volume, named port and Incoterm. CIF freight is calculated
case-by-case. The only published indicative figure on this site
remains FOB Novorossiysk milling wheat 12.5% at USD 165 / MT on
the
milling wheat product page
— repeated on the FOB route page with the same caveat.