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A NORTH VANCOUVER company has won a $4.2 million

federal government
Salvador.

Dominion Raw Materials Ltd.
arranged for shipment of the con-
tract’s 23,976 metric tonnes of
ammonium sulphate fertilizer to
the Central American country
March 13 from North Vancouver’s
Neptune Bulk Terminals Lid.

“It’s about the biggest one (con-
tract) we’ve had so far,’’ Domi-
nion president Bob Andrew said
Thursday.

contract

to ship fertilizer to EI

The contract is part of the Ca-
nadian International. Development
Agency’s (CIDA) federal
assistance program and_ repre-
sents the second time in the past
year Dominion has won a mullti-
million dollar CIDA contract.

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In May 1986, Dominion was
awarded a $1.1 million contract to
ship bulk fertilizer to Jamaica.

From April 1985 to April 1986,
the North Vancouver company
won CIDA contracts worth
$4,168,604.

Dominion is a small com-
modities broking firm that secures
the supply and arranges for the
delivery of raw materials to the
world market.

Andrew said his company deals
exclusively in bulk fertilizers and
has been in North Vancouver since

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The ammonium sulphate for the
©) Salvador shipment was produc-
ed by the Vancouver-based Com-
inco Ltd. at its plant in Trail, B.C.
and the Edmonton-based Sher-
ritt-Gordon at the company’s plant
in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.

The fertilizer will be used in the
country’s coffee and cotton
agricultural industries and is part
of a program initiated by Canada
in 1986.

Andrew said the contract, which
is the second to El Salvador in the
jast two years, comes at time when
the world’s fertilizer industry is

depressed.

“In the overall world fertilizer
market it’s not a big contract,’* he
said, ‘‘but for us its very good.
{It’s good for Canada and it’s good
for the farmers in El Salvador.”’

He added that the fertilizer
business both locally and interna-
tionally is extremely competitive.

CIDA. committed 82,042
metric tonnes of fertilizer to the
Central American and Caribbean
region in 1985-86. El Salvador
received $1.8 million in aid from
Canada last year, including
$650,000 in earthquake relief.