On August 18, 2020, Energy China Gezhouba International Corporation and Indonesia’s PT.OTI EYA ABADI Mining Company signed a contract for the mining and transportation of laterite nickel ore in Morowali County, Sulawesi, Indonesia. The contract value was US$160 million. It has achieved new breakthroughs in the company's mining sector and the rolling development of the Indonesian market.

The Indonesian nickel ore mining and transportation cash project is located in Morovali County, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It is 83.7km away from Morovali Airport and 296km away from Kendari City. The total area of the mining area is about 3339 hectares, and the laterite nickel ore reserves are about 30 million wet tons. The owner entrusted Gezhouba International Company to carry out mining and transportation services. The annual mining and transportation volume is 5 million tons and the contract period is 4 years. The scope of the project mainly includes mine surface cleaning, overburden stripping and mineral material stripping, excavation, loading, transshipment, land transportation, loading and unloading from wharf to barge or storage yard, and road maintenance during construction period.

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Since Gezhouba entered the Indonesian market in 2006, it has successively undertaken a number of Indonesian national strategic projects such as the Asahan I Hydropower Station, the Takara Coal-fired Power Station, and the Babibalu Coal-fired Power Station, which contribute to Indonesia’s economic and social development and China-Indonesia economic and trade development. The cooperation has made outstanding contributions. In the special period of the global epidemic, Gezhouba Group, while coordinating the prevention and control of the epidemic and its production and operation, through the Indonesian National Power Corporation donated 200 million rupiah to strengthen the local anti-epidemic material reserve, which greatly demonstrates the Chinese enterprises’ Responsibility and responsibility have been widely praised by the local government and people. Editor/Tian Zengpeng