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A South African court in Port Elizabeth barred the removal of a phosphate cargo mined in disputed Western Sahara from the Coega port. The roughly 5 million dollar cargo was bound for a New Zealand fertilizer maker, and the court formed a full bench to hear the case.
The legal freeze on this cargo keeps a small volume of phosphate rock off the market, a minor supply constraint for fertilizer buyers.
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