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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6766 FRIDAY 6 JULY 2018 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
Salt exports to reach 1 million tons per annum Floris Steenkamp
Walvis Bay Salt Refiners (WBSR) celebrated the ground-breaking of its N$90 million salt wash plant on Wednesday, setting the wheels in motion for salt exports to reach one million tons per annum by 2020. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, the managing director of the company, Mr André Snyman, explained the rapid expansion of the salt production capacity of WBSR necessitated the replacement of the existing thirty years old wash plant which has a capacity to wash 900 000 tons of salt per annum, if operated at full capacity, all year round. The new salt wash plant will use state of the art technology, and represents the single biggest capital investment made by Walvis Bay Salt Refiners in its 54 years of existence. The company commenced with an expansion project of its salt fields (pans) in 2015 with the aim of boosting salt production to 1 million tons per annum by 2019. The company’s evaporation ponds were enlarged from 3 700 hectares to a water surface area of 4 800 hectares. The crystalliser ponds were enlarged from 360 hectares to 480 hectares.
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The mayor of Walvis Bay Alderman Immanuel Wilfried and the managing director of WBSR, Mr André Snyman on Wednesday during the ground-breaking.
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Delano & Lesley Brazil Three South Africans holidaying in Namibia got the surprise of their lives yesterday morning when their parked vehicle’s handbrake failed, causing the vehicle to roll into the water. That was at the Walvis Bay Angling Club. A local used his four wheel drive vehicle to pull the vehicle back on land. The South Africans were able to continue their journey, albeit in a very wet vehicle.
Daisy, the penguin was safely flown to Lüderitz on Wednesday morning and welcomed by Jessica Kempner, who released her back into the wild. Following an article in Tuesday’s edition of namib times the Manica Group of Companies aided in the expenses to relocate Daisy to her native Lüderitz after spending some time in a penguin rehabilitation centre at Swakopmund. Report on page 2
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