Saldanha surfs steel price wave
01 Oct 2005
In South Africa, too, multi-million dollar improvements are taking place at the country's biggest deepwater port, Saldanha, to improve the export capacity of the iron ore bulk handing facility, at a time when developments have been brought forward in response to high steel prices. While steel prices have now peaked, demand for South African iron ore in Far Eastern markets is not expected to decline.
The contract to refurbish and upgrade the bulk handling facilities will reach completion by the end of 2005, to almost double the export capacity of the iron ore quay. With the last financial year seeing exports through the terminal of 25.9m tons, against a design capacity of 18m tons, the US$145m investment is certainly not before time and boosting export capacity to 39m tons a year at a stroke.
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