Melbourne: Australian Wheat Board (AWB) has resolved quality issues with Indian authorities for exporting the remaining 400,000 tonne of wheat consignment as part of its $ 90 million deal to supply 500,000 tonne of the foodgrain.
"AWB has successfully resolved key issues relating to its current Indian contract and is now moving to finalise its shipping programme for our customer," said AWB spokesperson Peter Mcbride.
About 100,000 tonne of the contract has already been delivered to the southern Indian ports of Tuticorn and Chennai while the remaining 400,000 tonne were held up due to issues related to quarantine.
The company, however, described the problem largely as a technical issue.
Apart from filling the 500,000 tonne contract, AWB has also won a second similar deal of equivalent quantity that is likely to be filled over the next four months, Mcbride added.
One million tonne of wheat export will come out of the national wheat pool.
The initial contract was India's first large grain import after a gap of six years after being self-sufficient over that time.
The two contracts are some of the first major sales since trade with Iraq was suspended over claims that AWB had paid $ 300 million in kickbacks to the former regime of Saddam Hussein.
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