Salalah Mills Company contracts with India, Australia to purchase wheat

Muscat: Salalah Mills Company has affirmed that it concluded contracts to purchase 180,000 tonnes of wheat from India and Australia. The consignment is set to arrive in the next three months.

Ahmed Alawi Al Dhahab, CEO of Salalah Mills Company, said that the amount of wheat purchased will meet local demand till the end of 2022. The shipment has left India’s Kandla Port, via bulk carrier Valiant Sumer, en route to the Port of Salalah, with 66,000 tonnes of wheat on board.

Al Dhahab told Oman News Agency (ONA) that Salalah Mills is currently considering ways of securing its needs for the first six months of 2023. He pointed out that Salalah Mills is the largest facility of its kind in Oman. He added that the firm operates at a daily capacity of up to 1,500 tonnes and imports more than 400,000 tonnes of wheat per year.