{"id":10215,"date":"2019-10-03T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T05:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10215"},"modified":"2019-10-03T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T05:38:40","slug":"ships-with-one-million-tonnes-of-grain-stuck-outside-irans-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10215","title":{"rendered":"Ships With One Million Tonnes of Grain Stuck Outside Iran&#8217;s Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20 ships carrying around one million tonnes of grain are stuck outside two ports in\u00a0 Iran as United States sanctions create payment problems and hamper the country&#8217;s efforts to import vital commodities, sources directly involved in the trade.<\/p>\n<p>Vessels with soya beans and corn, mostly from\u00a0 South America, have been held up due to payment crisis, as Tehran relies on imports for many foods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no restrictions on humanitarian business, but you can&#8217;t get paid for it,&#8221; one European source said. &#8220;You can be waiting for months to get a payment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trading companies such as Bunge and China&#8217;s COFCO International have been hit by payment delays and additional costs of up to $15,000 a day as the renewed US restrictions stifle the processing of transactions, trade sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies are exempt from\u00a0 sanctions Washington reimposed after US President Donald Trump said he was walking away from a 2015 international deal over Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>The few remaining lenders still processing Iranian business face multiple hurdles to facilitate payments, as financing channels freeze up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20 ships carrying around one million tonnes of grain are stuck outside two ports in\u00a0 Iran as United States sanctions create payment problems and hamper the country&#8217;s efforts to import vital commodities, sources directly involved in the trade. Vessels with soya beans and corn, mostly from\u00a0 South America, have been held up due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10218,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions\/10218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}