VOL. XL No. 1912-May-1997

JORDAN

Nippon-Jordan Fertilizer Plant At 'AqabaCommissioned

An $85mn fertilizer plant built at Jordan's Red Sea port of 'Aqaba has beencompleted and commissioned. The plant, built by Chiyoda Engineering ofJapan, has a capacity of 300,000 tons/year of nitrogen-phosphate potassium(NPK) fertilizer as well as diammonium phosphate and is expected to reach itsfull capacity during the next 12 months. It will utilize about 80,000 tons ofphosphoric acid annually which will be...