date:May 07, 2014
ompliance with the terms and conditions of those licences.
There are also extra complications for large consignments, which require more sophisticated financing and greater associated risk, which is driving down the size of trades.
We are seeing much smaller trades being done now. There is too much risk in transporting bigger consignments to Syria at the moment, a European trade source said.
Before the war, larger consignments of, say, 60,000 tonnes of grain were typical, but the biggest carg