French trader Touton has obtained a $50 million trade finance facility from BIC-BRED Switzerland to support traceable cocoa exports from Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria. The revolving line would provide short-term liquidity for bean purchases, with the IFC considering up to €10 million in risk participation.
A Polish court has dismissed the petitions seeking a declaration of bankruptcy against Przedsiebiorstwo Gornicze Silesia, the operator of the country's largest privately owned coal mine. The ruling keeps the company out of formal insolvency proceedings, but its long-running financial and liquidity problems remain unresolved. No figures for debt or claims were disclosed.
The Office of the US Trade Representative has added 1,559 metric tons raw value to South Africa's US raw cane sugar tariff-rate quota, lifting its allocation 6.3% to 26,303 tons for the 2027 US fiscal year. The expanded access arrives as SA Canegrowers reports domestic sales down 20% this season and accuses buyers of breaching a 95% local sourcing pledge.
Reports published on 1 October 2026 describe Egyptian rice prices as stable, rising and falling at the same time, as harvest deliveries add to leftover old-crop stocks. Paddy is quoted at 13,000–15,500 pounds per tonne and white rice at 20,500–24,000 pounds, while the rice division of the Federation of Industries puts the white-rice surplus at about 900,000 tonnes.
A pilot project in the village of Ak-Say, Ton district, raised corn and sunflower yields by 33% using satellite monitoring and artificial intelligence, Akchabar reported. The field was irrigated twice and used no additional water. The project, run with the Kyrgyz National University and the Kyrgyzstan Satellite project, may be extended to other districts.
Namibia has suspended domestic and international trade in livestock and animal products after detecting 63 cattle with foot-and-mouth disease in the Karasburg veterinary district, an area certified free of the disease without vaccination. The suspension affects an export business worth close to $180 million in 2025, split between $65 million in live animals and $114.4 million in meat. It is the country's first outbreak reported to WOAH since 2022.
Petrol and diesel prices in the United Arab Emirates rose on Thursday, 1 October, under the new tariff set by the country's fuel price follow-up committee. The increase reached as much as 16.6%, according to Al Wakeel News. UAE pump prices are reset monthly, so the new schedule holds until the committee's next review.
Exports of Greek meat products to Great Britain remain blocked by restrictions imposed after a foot-and-mouth disease case in Greece, with raw frozen gyros among the goods covered. One large Greek producer estimates six-month losses of 2 million to 2.5 million euros, about 90% of it tied to the British market. Greece shipped roughly 27 million euros of meat and meat preparations to the UK in 2025 out of a 280.6 million euro total.
A blockade of the shipping lane through the Strait of Hormuz has lifted European gas to 80 euros per MWh and made coal-fired generation more profitable than gas for the first time in years, farmer.pl reports. ICIS expects European coal-fired output to rise 25% in the coming months while gas falls by the same amount. Poland, which mines 44 million tonnes of hard coal a year, accounts for 97% of EU production.
Maersk has carried out the first commercial ship-to-ship bunkering of an ocean-going container vessel with 100% US-produced ethanol, at the Port of Mobile. Because corn is the primary feedstock for American ethanol, the trial points to a new outlet for grain growers. Maersk cautions that the fuel remains in the testing phase, with scale-up dependent on availability, regulation and port infrastructure.
Serbia’s NIS has asked the US Treasury’s OFAC for a new special license allowing operations to continue after September 30. Failure to secure an extension could disrupt the Pančevo refinery and fuel distribution across Serbia.
Four consignments of Belarusian wheat bran with a combined weight of 170.5 tonnes were delivered to a processing enterprise in Russia's Kursk region during September. Deliveries since the start of 2026 have reached 12,282 tonnes, against no shipments at all in 2025. The cargo passed quarantine phytosanitary control and was released for its intended use.
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