KIEV, Nov. 26 – Shipment of coal from South Africa to Ukraine has been stopped due to blocking of sale of currency to Ukrinterenergo to pay to the supplier – Britain's Steel Mont Trading Ltd., the Ukrainian state company has told Interfax-Ukraine.

"The ship with the fourth batch of coal is off the harbor of the Illichivsk port, but it is impossible to unload it… Our company was blocked from buying foreign currency and we cannot pay to Steel Mont for the third and fourth batches. They cannot pay to the port for unloading and to railways for wagons," Ukrinterenergo said.