A second shipment of alumina produced at Alumina Partners of Jamaica (Alpart) has recently been loaded from Jamaica's Port Kaiser, according to Sun Jing, a senior engineer and manager at China's Jiuquan Iron & Steel (Group) Co (Jisco).
The global financial crisis of 2008-09 and soaring energy costs had forced the closure of the plant in May 2009, but Jisco reopened it in June last year. An initial 35,000-tonne shipment was sent in November, arriving in the Chinese port of Lianyungang at the end of December."We are on the way to bringing back Jamaica to its rightful industry position," Jing said.A third shipment of alumina will...