[Ferro-Alloys.com] The first shipment of iron ore from Sierra Leone's New Tonkolili Iron Ore Project set sail for China from the country's Pepel Port on Friday.

The shipment was the first batch of products from Sierra Leone's New Tonkolili Iron Ore Project invested and operated by Kingho Investment Company Limited, a Chinese-owned private company.

Zhao Ting, Chief Executive Officer of the company, said the project, which started in September 2020, covers an area of 408 square kilometers with a resource capacity of 13.7 billion tons, adding that the project is equipped with a complete railway and port logistics transportation system.

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