OCI Fertilizer Group Cairo, Egypt / 14 July, 2010 10:30 AM OCI Signs Agreement to Acquire Ammonia Terminal at the Port of Rotterdam - Netherlands Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) confirmed today that OCI Fertilizer International B.V. (a Fertilizer Group subsidiary) has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in MICRO Chemie B.V. MICRO Chemie B.V. owns and operates ammonia storage tanks with a combined storage capacity of 30,000 tons and has a lease for a terminal located at the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands for a period of 25 years starting from 2002 and extendable for another 25 years upon expiration of the lease contract. The terminal has a permit to receive up to 600,000 tons per year of ammonia and to deliver up to 550,000 per year. The terminal has waterway access comprised of two jetties, which can accommodate both large tankers and smaller barges. These waterways provide access to the Rhine River through which the majority of European inland shipping is routed, allowing delivery to France, Germany and the Netherlands. In addition, the terminal is also accessible by a 160 km railway network running from the south and the east of Rotterdam up to, respectively, the Belgian and German borders. OCI Nitrogen Chief Executive Officer, Renso Zwiers commented "the acquisition of MICRO Chemie B.V. offers significant synergies to the Group. It will, in the future, allow us to receive ammonia from the Group's other production sources with a connection to a critical in-land transportation hub. The ammonia supply will also ensure additional security of ammonia supply to the Group's Geleen production complex in the Netherlands where ammonia is also produced and consumed in the manufacture of Calcium Ammonium Nitrate and by neighboring third party chemical producers." About OCI Fertilizer Group The OCI Fertilizer Group currently owns and operates plants based in Egypt and the Netherlands capable of producing over 5.0 million tons of nitrogen-based fertilizers and 0.24 million tons of melamine annually. In 2011 our fertilizer complex in Algeria in partnership with state-owned Sonatrach will begin production with a total capacity of 2.0 million tons of nitrogen-based fertilizers. By 2012 the OCI Fertilizer Group will firmly place among top world producers with over 8.0 million tons of nitrogen-based fertilizer production capacity. For additional information contact: OCI Investor Relations Department: For additional information on OCI: Omar Darwazah www.orascomci.com Email: omar.darwazah@orascomci.com OCI stock symbols: OCIC.CA / OCIC EY /OCICqL / ORSD Erika Wakid Email: erika.wakid@orascomci.com Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) Nile City Towers - South Tower Hassan Badrawi 2005A Corniche El Nil Director Cairo, Egypt Tel: +202 2461 1036/0727/0917 Fax: +202 2461 9409 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange END
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