Hafun Salt Factory: Difference between revisions

In 1930, an [[Italy|Italian]] firm called "Società Saline e Industrie della Somalia settentrionale [[Migiurtina]]" ("Saline Companies and Industries of Northern Somalia Migiurtina") invested huge capital to exploit salt deposits in Dante and Hurdiyo. The Hafun Salt Factory was created and was the main producing facility of sea [[salt]] on the world in the 1930s. By 1933 or 1934, the Dante salt works were producing more than 200,000 metric tons of salt, most of which was exported to [[India]] & the [[Far East]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ahmed|first1=Ahmed Abbas|title=Transformation Towards a Regulated Economy|page=74}}</ref>

 

 

{{Quote|''Soon after the First World War, the Italians realized that the shallow bay of Hafun, which had a long, low beach along the mainland side, was a perfect place for a large salt works. The "Società Saline e Industrie della Somalia Settentrionale" built on both sides of the [[peninsula]] of [[Ras Hafun]] (Hafun and Hurdiyo) what would be the largest salt-works in the world. The firm, constituted in Milan in 1922, rebuilt a town for 5,000 inhabitants in what was ancient Hafun and called it with the name "Dante". Construction began in 1922 and was completed by 1929. In 1931, production began at the salt factory and soon the enterprise at Ras Hafun was exporting by sea over three hundred thousand tons of salt a year for industrial use. In 1941, during World War II, the British, who had lost British Somaliland to an Italian attack, sent north into Somalia from [[Kenya]] an expeditionary force that captured all of Italian East Africa and in the process destroyed the salt works.''Wikimapia<ref>[http://wikimapia.org/3994872/Old-Italian-salt-production-facility Facility history & map]</ref>}}