CROATIAN SEAPORT SUCCESSFULLY COOPERATING WITH BOSNIAN FACTORY

PLOCE, Sept 3 (Hina) - Arriving from the English port of Imminghaim, the "Karavi" merchant ship sailed into the southern Croatian port of Ploce on Tuesday, carrying 5,000 tonnes of petroleum coke for an aluminium factory in Mostar, Bosnia, the Ploce port's chief business partner. #L# Also today, the ship "Alsuta" brought from the Italian port of Porto Vesma a cargo of 6,000 tonnes of alumina for the Mostar factory. The Mostar aluminium factory is currently using 30 percent of the Ploce port's facilities. Ploce is the premier Croatian port for the transhipment of cargo for Bosnia's economy, and its annual reloading turnover is returning to the pre-war figure of over four million tonnes. In 2001 the Mostar factory used the Ploce port to import 236,520 tonnes of alumina, petroleum coke, and pitch, and to export 54,030 tonnes of raw aluminium products. Under a new contract, a total of 82,825 tonnes of cargo has been transhipped via Ploce for the Mostar factory thus far. A transhipment of over 300,000 tonnes is expected by year's end. (hina) ha sb