China buys first DDGS shipment this year

This year marked the first for China's importation of US distillers' dried grains with solubles as the second batch of exports set to arrive this week.

The panamax vessel was loaded in the US Gulf and was sold by Toepfer to Liang Jie International Trading Company, a local trading company for feed ingredients in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province in China.

US Grains Council staff Cary Sifferath, senior director in China, and Sam Niu, assistant director in China, went to Shenzhen in southern China to see firsthand the unloading of the bulk vessel.

The vessel contained 20,000 tonnes of US DDGS and 32,000 tonnes of US wheat. Liang Jie International Trading Company sold all 20,000 tonnes of the DDGS to local feedmill companies and other end-users in Guangdong Province before the vessel arrived. When Sifferath and Niu arrived, the port was busy loading the DDGS into small barges to be delivered up the Pearl River to various feedmills as well as being put into bags to be delivered by truck to end-users.