date:Mar 22, 2013
A vessel bound for Iran had been loaded in the port of Yuzhny near the Black Sea port of Odessa, a trader said.
The previous shipments of maize to Iran were made in November 2012, when Ukraine, one of the world's top maize exporters, sent a total of 124,000 tonnes of the commodity, Mykola Vernytsky from ProAgro consultancy told Reuters.
The suspension of shipments was likely to be caused by international sanctions as other countries in the region were continuing maize purchases without any pau