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According to FAO data, up to 25% of global food crops face mycotoxin contamination annually, with cereals like wheat heavily affected in warm, humid climates.

My vessel? The exact same port, the exact same war, 11 days later. We discharged in 4 days and collected full price plus a $1.8 million late-payment bonus.

By the time those ships discharged, the mobile mill had already produced 1,840 tons of fresh flour, sold it cash-on-delivery at local market prices, and pocketed an extra $94 per ton net profit.

Reading: 12.3 %. He checked three more random spots. 12.2 %, 12.4 %, 12.1 %. Then he did something I’ve never seen in 23 years: he smiled, signed the release form, and asked for our supplier list.

I opened a container in Dammam in July 2025 that looked like a crime scene. 1,440 × 25 kg paper bags had burst open in perfect synchrony. Flour poured out like white lava, coating the floor 18 cm deep.

The flour arrived perfect at Cape Town discharge check — then spent 19 extra days drifting while waiting for berth.

He wasn’t exaggerating. Between January 2026 and December 2028, five companies—Cargill, Glencore, ADM, Bunge, and Louis Dreyfus (the “ABCCD” group)—will control an estimated 71 % of all seaborne wheat trade, up from 58 % in 2023.

It was 47 °C in the shade at Mundra Port, India, when the phone rang on December 18, 2024. A surveyor in Dar es Salaam was staring at 68 containers of Canadian wheat and Pakistani flour that had literally turned into compost.