Thursday, 07 June 2012
By Don Weinland
Phnom Penh Post
A 144-tonne shipment of Cambodian fragrant rice will leave Phnom
Penh for Fuzhou, China on Saturday, the first Chinese order for the
Kingdom’s milled rice after a recent government agreement was reached on
Chinese regulation.
Mekong Oryza Trading received the order
months earlier, senior manager of business development David Van said
yesterday in an email.
“We waited [to announce the order] until
both governments agreed on a format on paperwork as we didn’t want to
get caught with cargo stuck at Chinese entry ports,” Van said.
He declined to name the Chinese buyer.
Reported
regulatory issues have held back Cambodian rice shipments to China for
more than a year, experts have said, some of whom maintained that the
problem was Chinese red tape, not rice quality.
Rice millers have collected a stack of memoranda of understanding but the pseudo-agreements failed to translate into real trade.
Mega Green Imex Cambodia last week said the company would ship a test run of 240 tonnes of rice to China by the end of June.
Golden
Rice president Sok Hach said his company sent a 48-tonne test run
earlier in the year but failed to pass regulatory tests in the southern
Chinese port of Shenzhen.
The China Certification &
Inspection Group will inspect the rice at Cavifood rice mill in the
capital’s Russei Keo district tomorrow before it leaves Phnom Penh
Autonomous Port two days later, Van said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Don Weinland at don.weinland@phnompenhpost.com
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