AUSTRALIA SELLS 180,000 TONNES OF SUGAR TO USSR Australia sold 180,000 tonnes of raw sugar to the Soviet Union for shipment in the next few weeks, Queensland Primary Industries Minister Neville Harper said. Loading of a 50,000-tonne cargo on the Soviet freighter Nikolay Kuznetsov for shipment to Odessa was completed today at the Lucinda terminal, he said in a statement. The balance will be shipped from Mackay by end-March, Harper said. Australia exported 159,000 tonnes of sugar to the Soviet Union in 1986.