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| Wednesday, February 22 |
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| 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
Arrival, accommodation, registration |
| 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. |
Meeting of participants in the hall of Mariott hotel |
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| Thursday, February 23 |
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| 10:00 a.m. |
Opening ceremony
Greeting address from GASC
Greeting address from the organisers
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SESSION 1: Black Sea Grain on the World Grain Market
The Session chairman - Arkady Zlochevsky, Russian Grain Union
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| 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. |
Present-day agrarian policy and development prospects of Russian grain market
Àndrey Vershinin, Director of International Cooperation Dept. of Russian Agriculture Ministry |
| 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. |
Present-day agrarian policy and development prospects of Ukrainian grain market
a representative of Agrarian Policy Ministry of Ukraine |
| 11:30 - 11:40 a.m. |
Trends of commodities flow restructuring on the world grain market
Ivan Ushachov, Vice-President, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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| 11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. |
Grain from CIS region and its position of the world grain market
Àndriy Pankratov, APK-Inform |
| 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. |
Break |
SESSION 2: Current state and challenges of grain trade on the market of North Africa and Middle East
The Session chairperson - representative of GASC
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| 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. |
The system if state grain purchases in Jordan
Muhannad Ghesh, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Jordan |
| 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. |
Russian grain on the Mediterranean markets: current state, prospects and challenges
Nikolay Demyanov, International Grain Company, Russia |
| 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. |
The role of private sector in the grains trade. Egypt's example
Ashraf El Attal, Egyptian Traders, Egypt |
| 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. |
Ukrainian maize on the Mediterranean markets: current state, prospects and challenges
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| 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. |
Break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. |
Cotecna seminar |
| 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. |
Dinner party in honour of the Summit participants |
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| Friday, February 24 |
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SESSION 3: Quality as a Factor of Black Sea Grain Competitiveness
The Session Chairman: Viktor Kanunnikov, APK-Inform
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| 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. |
Systems and mechanism of control over the safety and quality of export grain in Russia
Sergey Dankvert, Head of the Federal Service for Phyto-Sanitary and Veterinary Control, Russian Agriculture Ministry |
| 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. |
Systems and mechanism of grain quality control in Ukraine. Quality control of export grain
Olexandr Bilyi, Head of the State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Agricultural Products and Monitoring of Their Markets, Ukraine
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| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. |
Quality parameters of the Black Sea grain |
| 11:20 - 11:40 a.m. |
Quality requirements to imported grains in Arabian countries
a representative of IMFO |
| 11:40 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Discussion |
| 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. |
Break |
| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. |
Round-table meeting "Grain fumigation in export/import operations" |
| 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. |
Round-table meeting "Competitiveness of Ukrainian maize" |
| SESSION 4: Grain trading infrastructure, logistics, freight. Legal issues |
| 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. |
Grain import infrastructure of Middle East countries
Admiral Hatim El Kady, Arab Federation of Chambers of Shipping, Egypt
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| 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. |
Freight market: trends and prospects
Levent Karacelik, Marvel International, Turkey
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| 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. |
Significance of comprehensive grain handling in ports
A representative of Buhler company, Switzerland |
| 3:30 - 4:15 p.m. |
Specifics of foreign trade contract in grain trading (practical recommendations)
Eurof Lloyd-Lewis, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, the UK
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| 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. |
Closing meeting. Discussion of a summarising document |
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| Saturday, February 25 |
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| Touring programme |
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| Sunday, February 26 |
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| Departure |
