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POSCO will increase the realized volumes of traffic through the port of Koper
Last year the cargos (mainly sheet coils) disembarked in the Slovenian port are piled to 250 thousand tons
April 8, 2013
next years the South Korean iron and steel group POSCO will ulteriorly increase the realized volumes of traffic through the port of Koper. The managing director of the Asian group has announced past saturday, Chung Joonyang, in an encounter to Koper with Bojan Brank, president of Luka Koper, the society that manages the Slovenian port.
The traffic that POSCO has conveyed on the port of Koper is gone up by 50.000 tons in 2007 to beyond 250.000 tons in 2012. Such volume of traffic is constituted mainly by destined coils of sheet in particular to the automotive industry and the industry of the household appliance ones. Luka Koper has remembered that during the last few years the increase of the European Union has induced a series of South Korean producers of car to install new systems in the nations of central Europe and oriental and that these companies use in the car production the same materials (sheet coils) employed in respective the main plants in Korea. With such scope the POSCO group has instituted with the Daewoo Logistics compatriots, which logistic operator, and Daewoo International, which society of trading in the iron and steel field, joint venture POSCO-ESCD, with center to Koper, than it cures the cargo transport from South Korea towards the plants in central Europe and oriental via the port of Koper.
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