The Uruguayan president Tabaré Vazquez inaugurated today, on 29 August 2007 at 11 a.m. local time, officially the harbour of the company ONTUR in Nueva Palmira. The harbour company is owned by Botnia (40 %), Ontemar (18%), NYK Lauritzen Cool (14%), Christophersen S.A. (14%) and Swed Fund International (14%). The harbour was enlarged to facilitate the pulp deliveries and its warehouse is one of the largest in Uruguay. In addition to pulp deliveries, the harbour is an important export hub for fruit and other products. The Uruguayan pulp mill of Metsä-Botnia is in its finalizing stage and will be ready for start up in September. At the Fray Bentos mill itself, there is storage capacity only for approximately one day's production and the pulp will be delivered with barges 70 km downstream to Nueva Palmira. In the harbour there is 30,000 m2 covered warehouse space, able to store 100,000 tons of pulp. In Nueva Palmira the pulp is then loaded into ocean carriers transporting it to customers in Europe and in China. For further information, please contact Marko Janhunen, Vice President, Communications & Public relations, Uruguay project, Tel. +358 50 5900047.