It is expected to handle 15 million metric tons by 2004.
The total weight of the gun was 1,000 metric tons.
About half the 800,000 metric tons of the food needed has been promised.
In 1996, the level rose to 59.3 million metric tons.
This has increased since then to 771,000 metric tons in 2007.
Total world demand last year was 3,480 metric tons, up 12 percent.
Its weight has been estimated to be 85.21 metric tons.
That's 4.2 million metric tons with a value of more than $4.1 billion.
China had been expected to buy 300,000 metric tons of sugar.
During the last two decades, this number was only 145 million metric tons per year.