Aug 31, 2007. /Lesprom Network/. The Uruguayan president Tabaré Vazquez officially inaugurated on August 29, 2007 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. 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 square meters covered warehouse space, able to store 100 000 tonnes of pulp. In Nueva Palmira the pulp is then loaded into ocean carriers transporting it to customers in Europe and in China. Oy Metsä-Botnia Ab is Europe’s second largest pulp producer. Botnia’s softwood, birch and aspen pulps are ideally suited for the production of high-quality printing and writing papers, packaging boards and tissue.