Port-Sudan, Dec. 22 (SUNA)- Preparations were completed for exporting five million litres as the first shipment of ethanol produced by Kenana Sugar Company next Sunday, December 27, said the Director of Marketing at Kenana Sugar Company, Hassan Hashim Erwa.
He said that this shipment will be exported to the European Union. Erwa said that the company produces 65 million litres of ethanol annually. MO/MO

this is very good news

I believe Sudan is the first country in Africa to produce ethanol

I believe Sudan is the first country in Africa to produce ethanol


That's very good news. i read somewhere last year about Sudan's interests in this program.

In mass productions and not for sugar purpose yea , Sudan is first.

Not my favorite ( i would prefer food instead), but i like it because it will help with AgriTech research, industriializing the country, create 1000s of Technical jobs, Make money by stimulating the local economies, and putting money in state coffers.

That's very good news. i read somewhere last year about Sudan's interests in this program.

In mass productions and not for sugar purpose yea , Sudan is first.

Not my favorite ( i would prefer food instead),

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I agree food production should always be the priority, however the ethanol in Sudan is being produced from the waste products of the Sugar cane, instead of burning the remnants of the harvest they use it to produce Bio fuel.

initial production is 65 million litres however capacity will reach 200 million litres with in two years time.

I agree food production should always be the priority, however the ethanol in Sudan is being produced from the waste products of the Sugar cane, instead of burning the remnants of the harvest they use it to produce Bio fuel.

That's great to hear. well, Sudan is already massively investing in food production , so thats still a great thing. divertifying the economy and industries.

That's great to hear. well, Sudan is already massively investing in food production , so thats still a great thing. divertifying the economy and industries.

Sudan has been very lucky the food shortages in 2008 caused jitters in the Arab world that encouraged the then to invest in Agriculture. One of their top investment destinations is Sudan.

Ethanol factory:

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^^great to hear but Kenya are also doing mumias and Kenya mollasses are already doing, for example mumias is expecting to increase the capacity by investing in new factory which will be running 2011. the government has announced from next year march all oil products must be blended with 35% ethanol so the future is bright in this industry.:cheers:

Sudan ships first ethanol exports to EU
Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:45am GMT

By Opheera McDoom

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has begun exporting its first 5 million litres of ethanol to the European Union, at an initial price of around 450 euros a cubic metre, officials from the Kenana Sugar company said on Monday.

Kenana, Sudan's largest sugar company, this year inaugurated the ethanol plant which aims to produce 65 million litres a year of the bio fuel.

"Yesterday a vessel carrying 5 million litres of ethanol went to Rotterdam," said company secretary Fareed Omer Medani.

"This has been purchased by the European Union," he said, adding by the end of February a further 20 million litres would be exported in four separate shipments.

Kenana's Managing Director Mohamed El Mardi told Reuters the price per cubic metre for the December shipment was about 450 euros FOB.

But he said prices for the four further shipments would vary, depending on the market.

"The prices are not fixed prices," he said. "For the five shipments we will have 5 different prices -- January/February prices are higher than in December."

Mardi said it was the first export of ethanol from Sudan, adding the shipments would continue regularly at 5 million litres every month.

Mardi said the plant's capacity would rise to 200 million litres of ethanol a year by 2013.

The factory uses by-products from Sudan's sugar industry to create a renewable energy source for a country whose economy is largely dependent on crude oil output of almost 500,000 barrels per day.

He added some European companies had contacted Kenana about possible ethanol exports to West Africa.

Brazilian company Dedini Industrias de Base S.A. built the ethanol plant.

Sudan aims to produce 750,000 tonnes of sugar in 2009/2010.