# Territorial Dispute Halts Phosphate Rock Shipment from Morocco | INN

> A vessel carrying a 55,000-tonne phosphate rock shipment from OCP for Agrium was detained in Panama under a maritime court order sought by the Polisario independence movement. It is the second such ship stopped this month, and the cargo was bound for Vancouver. Agrium said it is working with the ship owner to resolve the situation and does not expect disruption at its Alberta fertilizer plant.

- Date: 2017-05-18 · published 2017-05-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: geopolitics · region Western Sahara · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/71331-territorial-dispute-halts-phosphate-rock-shipment-from-morocco-inn
- Commodities: [Phosphate Rock](https://feedsoft.ai/c/PHOSROCK.md)

## Why it matters

Repeated detentions of Moroccan phosphate cargoes raise supply-chain risk and could push phosphate rock prices higher, though Agrium's plant is not currently affected.

## Read by commodity

- PHOSROCK: bullish ▲

## Sources

- investingnews.com: https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/agriculture-investing/phosphate-investing/agrium-phosphate-rock-shipment-morocco/

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