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Saudi Arabia to export phosphate

28 January 2010

by Alex Feytis

Ras al-Zour port to start trial operations in August and exports in December 2010

Keywords: Saudi Arabia, Ras al-Zour port, phosphate, Ma'aden, SABIC

Saudi Arabia’s Ras al-Zour port is expected to start exporting phosphate in December this year from the jointly-owned Al Jalamid plant of Saudi Arabia Mining Co. (Ma’aden) and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC), according to Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat.

Khaled Boubchit, the Saudi ports authority’s head,...